Posted on 10/26/2015 12:54:31 PM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration on Monday hurried to express its opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus tentative talk of revoking the permanent residency status of tens of thousands of Arabs living in East Jerusalem.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that, as far as the US government knows, Israel is not actively considering such a move. But if it were, he said, it would obviously be of some concern to us. The US, Earnest went on, reiterates the importance of all sides avoiding provocative actions and rhetoric.
Netanyahu discussed the idea in vague terms at a Knesset committee meeting earlier Monday, as part of possible measures aimed at halting an ongoing spate of terror attacks.
In his first appearance at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset winter sitting, Netanyahu said he was planning on touring East Jerusalem with other cabinet members to explore the issue further
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It also is an indictment of what passes for poetry today.
It’s what HL Mencken said about President Harding’s speeches, that captures it best:
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
Or as William Allen White put it...
They’re like an army of words marching across the landscape in search of an idea, and having found one, they triumphantly bear it back home where it is worked to death.
Excellent quotes! Thank you. Big grin here.
Thanks!
The obunghole administration should shut its yap.
It’s enough to make you want to puke on bozo and Pops. Bozo will get his, don’t know how, don’t know when, hopefully in my lifetime.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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These would be residents of Jerusalem who have refused Israeli citizenship, an offer made in 1967 and I believe still open. Presuming the attackers fall disproportionately is this class, it's a reasonable action. Just not to an administrations which is fine with illegals, even criminal illegals, in the US.
Dear psychos presently running the national government: STFU. Go legalize illegal immigration or something. You misrule your country, and let us have ours.
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