Witless Gigolo Hectors Tiny Nation Surrounded by Putative Enemies
[guest post by JVW]
Giving a farewell (and not a moment too soon!) speech at the State Department, Secretary of State John Kerry backed up the Obama Administration’s ugly betrayal of Israel at last week’s U.N. Security Council session, and in a way that only a smug, pompous, crass, rich dilettante who travels with a full security detail could, he essentially demanded that Israel open themselves to Islamofascist violence:
Kerry, though, on Wednesday rejected criticism “that [the U.N vote in which the U.S. abstained] abandons Israel” and described the resolution as a call for both sides to save the two-state solution “while there is still time.”
“We did not take this decision lightly,” Kerry said.
He said Israel’s “permanent settlement construction,” not the resolution, is risking peace.
“Friends need to tell each other the hard truths, and friendships require mutual respect,” Kerry said. He said the U.S. “did in fact vote in accordance with our values.”
In an at-times scathing address, Kerry went on to blast the “settler agenda” for allegedly pushing Israel toward seeking one state – which he asserted could not be both Jewish and democratic. He called the current government the “most right-wing” in Israel’s history and claimed its agenda is “driven by the most extreme elements.”
One can make a honest argument that Israeli settlements on the West Bank are hindering any sort of peace process. I might not agree with that particular assessment, seeing as how it is hard to take the Palestinians seriously as a legitimate peace partner, but I grant that it is a legitimate argument. But to advance this proposition now, after the Administration’s cluelessness towards events in Egypt, wrong choices in Libya, and ugly dithering in Syria has made things in that region far worse than they should be — to pivot and blame Israel for ruining the peace process under those circumstances is a level of delusional make-believe that I wouldn’t have thought even these vacuous narcissists would stoop to. The foreign policy of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry has been relentlessly awful for eight years, and good riddance to that horrid crew.
– JVW
I predict that Barack Obama and John Kerry will spend a lot of retirement time in the grand salons of Western Europe, where they will be far more popular and influential then they will be here in the United States.
JVW (30a532) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:33 pmAmerica sucks balls
hoping Mr. Trump can turn it around
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:34 pmClueless, reckless, cretins.
windbag (47f3d7) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:38 pmDon’t they know who he is?!?!?!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:38 pmand teh wind whines Kerry…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:39 pmThe dprk seems to be on point.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:40 pmYes they know exactly who he is.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:46 pmThe Twitter feeds of omri ceren show the fatuous and stupiditynof this crew.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 4:56 pmOnce a traitor, always a traitor.
NJRob (7b9201) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:09 pmNetanyahu thoroughly rebuked Obama and his mouthpiece Kerry in his response. He oh, so neatly exposed them for the small and petty people they are.
Dana (d17a61) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:15 pmExcept that “the U.S. ‘did [NOT] in fact vote in accordance with our[?] values,’ ” since the U.S. did NOT in fact vote but, instead, abstained from voting.
At least have the guts to vote YES when betraying an ally. Sheesh.
DavidD (da856e) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:18 pmThe Wind Cries MaryTeh Wind Mewls KerryAfter all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all cast their votes
You can hear whimpiness mincing on down teh street footfall sounds like goats
And teh wind whispers Kerry
A clock is noisily ticking toward a reckoning that’s long overdue
Somewhere Hitler is laughing
Nowhere a land for the Jew
And teh wind, it farts Kerry
The camera lights, they highlight his preening
His words of emptiness rain down on his head
The tiny land is now under siege
Cause the Left’s support is, is dead
And teh wind spits Kerry
Uh-will John Kerry ever remember the time he wore the Magic Hat
And with his crutch, his old age
And his Botox he minces, “Heh… I’d forgotten that”
And teh wind sharts Kerry
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:30 pmWell, you could make an argument that it reduces the probability of ending the conflict by an agrred to permanent territorial division between two states from virtually nil to just about mathematically impossible, but what you cannot argue is that anything is changing very fast.
(In that, this bears a certain similarity to complaints about the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In both cases we supposedly are near a tipping point, and soon it will be too late, and action to limit an increase in the level is urgent.)
It could also be argued that settlements make a certain kind of peace agreement impossible, but that that kind of a peace agreement is unsound.
Peace comes only from goodwill, or from the existence of a balance of power such that the ore powerful party is satisfied with the status quo.
Sammy Finkelman (845007) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:36 pm==Peace comes only from goodwill, or from the existence of a balance of power such that the ore powerful party is satisfied with the status quo.==
Or winning a war and suing for peace with specific conditions. History books have record of some of that, I think.
elissa (ddb087) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:44 pmWell, at least he didn’t have James Taylor singing “You’ve Got a Friend.” Maybe he could have had Yoko Ono screeching “Give Peace a Chance.”
Walter Cronanty (f48cd5) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:47 pmOMG!! Debbie Reynolds too.
elissa (ddb087) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:48 pmwell i for one am not dying
you can jump on the bandwagon if you want
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:51 pmR.I.P. Debbie Reynolds
It’s not too hard to guess why.
Icy (a2806d) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:58 pmLooks like the death reel editor at TCM has to do yet another update.
RIP Debs.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:01 pmstill not dying
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:03 pmEddie Fischer was about the same age, when he passed.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:03 pmwell i don’t even care what age
i’m not dying just cause cinnabon-head died
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:15 pmi have my own agenda
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:15 pmThe whole Obama foreign policy is based upon wishful thinking.
The problem here is worse. It’s that they think – or, more likely were told, by some Arab diplomats – that a total Israeli stoppage of any kind of building of housing for Jews outtside the 1967 lines is necessary just to prevent the situation from getting worse.
And now Kerry winds up lying about what the resolution says, and so did Samantha Power when it passed, claiming that the resolution makes crystal clear that incitement to violence, the glorification of terrorists, and the growth of violent extremism erodes prospects for peace, and that addressed counterproductive actions by the Palestinians such as terrorism and incitement to violence, something that it requires quite a bit of exegesis to see.
Here, try it:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.761030
You can find it, but every sentence that you can read this way can be read in other ways to. Nowere is any party besides Israel held at fault by name.
Sammy Finkelman (845007) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:16 pmI love how the President who refuses to enforce the borders of his own country is lecturing another country about its borders. At the English Department of your local university, they refer to that as irony.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:16 pmI noticed that Debbie Reynolds did not announce the death of her daughter, but didn’t read that much into it. There was a statement after that, but it was too upbeat.
Sammy Finkelman (845007) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:18 pmThe only purpose of that resolution was to blame Israel for the failure to reach a settlement, with the more long term, and maybe not do long term, goal of justifying a
war with Israel, and the lack of co-operation with the United States in its foreign policy elsewhere in the Middle East. And also splitting the west.
For that purpose they have made the immediate sticking point settlements, which the United States and other countries find not totally unreasonable, and also made the conditions that Israel would have to agree to impossible for Israel to accept.
There are a whole bunch of lies tied into that U.N. resolution, starting with the declaration, offered without any reasoning or proof, that the status quo is not sustainable.
Then it treats an Arab democracy living in peace with Israel as something both sustainable or a remotely realistic goal.
Ad it states that Israeli compliance with its demands would make final status negotiations possible.
It’s a lie even that the “Palestinians” have any power to negotiate anything, (a lie that unfortunately Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu seem to accept) since Mohammed Abbas has said quite plainly that they cannot go against the Arab League, so either the Arab League must be at the table, or they must affirmatively vote to give Abbas a free hand, and mean it. Saudi Arabia and others who dominate the Arab League are hiding behind the Palestinians, whom they bribe.
Sammy Finkelman (845007) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:19 pm14.==Peace comes only from goodwill, or from the existence of a balance of power such that the ore powerful party is satisfied with the status quo.==
elissa (ddb087) — 12/28/2016 @ 5:44 pm
Winning a war and imposing conditions falls into the category of amilitarily superior power being satisfied with the status quo (or a little less than that, or lets’s say the new status quo.)
Sammy Finkelman (845007) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:23 pmKerry is a past master at chucking precious property.
I am overdosing on Prager’s fondest wish, clarity. I had not dared hope for such riches.
No. I dare not hope for the GOPe to actually do anything with the straight flush they have been dealt. Folding is always the order of the day.
Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:27 pmThese deaths are all happyfeet’s doing. He wished the Queen of England dead but his aim is no good.
He got a “queen” in England, but it was the wrong one and the wrong kind.
Then he tried again and got a princess but not a real one — just somebody who played a princess in a movie.
Debbie Reynolds was a ricochet from Carrie Fisher, obviously.
nk (dbc370) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:30 pmBarack and John F. Kerry are the co-captains of the JV team.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:32 pmDark magic, never gets you back to fillory.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:32 pmwhen is season 2
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:37 pmNext month, January 23.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:41 pmoh good
i need closure
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/28/2016 @ 6:57 pmGreetings:
Me, I haven’t heard much of Gaza or Hamas this week. What about you guys ???
“Witless gigolo” is good, but I’m sticking with the Foggiest of the Foggy Bottoms.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 12/28/2016 @ 8:11 pmMr. Heinz put the world in quite the pickle with this latest spewing.
Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 12/28/2016 @ 9:19 pmShow is very different from the books.
Books weren’t very good IMO.
NJRob (43d957) — 12/28/2016 @ 9:53 pmAttorney general of israel investigating netanhayu for bribery corruption and fraud again The bottle deposit crook has dodged the long arm of the law from being collared for corruption. Netanyahu has threatened to start a war with somebody anybody if he was indicted before. maybe he can bomb iran to take the heat off.
heat is on (f7fd4c) — 12/28/2016 @ 10:49 pm#39 it sounds like you’re angry at Jews.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/28/2016 @ 11:32 pmMeghan’s loathsomely cowardly and increasingly erratic daddy commends Kerry nomination “without reservation”
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/29/2016 @ 4:23 amBirds of a feather. Both divorced their first wives for richer ones. McCain’s was not as rich but she was young and beautiful, whereas Kerry’s was not as young and beautiful but had much bigger bank balances, that’s the only difference.
nk (dbc370) — 12/29/2016 @ 4:41 amthat seems like an astute observation i think
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/29/2016 @ 4:47 amObama’s “Present” vote on Israeli settlements gives Trump the axe to kill Climate Change
Neo (d1c681) — 12/29/2016 @ 4:49 amThere is a whole prosecutorial class that acts as enforcers for the left, spataro went after the cia, instead of the salafi menace in my own blog
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:19 amnotoriously cowardly and increasingly erratic and feeble old man who voted enthusiastically for Hillary Clinton and John Kerry says
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:22 amThe erection of settlements is not a bar to establishing two states. Anyone who cannot comprehend that fact knows no history.
Michael Keohane (947544) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:45 amI cannot think of any other instance in history when a group of people start successive wars of conquest, and lose each of them, only to demand territorial concessions as if they were the victors. Of course, all the wars were interspersed with an ongoing campaign of unspeakable terror directed against civilians, and accompanied by a constant drumbeat of propaganda that denied Israel’s right to even exist.
orcadrvr (41c165) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:59 amHow is it possible to negotiate with such people?
Why should anyone even try?
If building houses is such an obvious impediment to peace, then why did Barack wait until 7 years + 11 months into his administration before he pushed for this resolution? (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:00 am(That’s a rhetorical question.)
On every other issue, Barack’s rhetorical trick is to say, “We can’t wait any longer! We must act now!“
How do you think they took over the levant in the first place?
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:04 amNew Zealand should have found another stooge nation as resolution sponsor – they actuall benefit from several million Jews looking for a new home all at once. We missed out on the frozen chosen (Alaska, Ww2 era), but that’s a Dem screw up as well.
urbanleftbehind (9ee190) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:15 amThere is speculation, in the tablet, its about their guilt over the Maori.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:24 amI am not aware of any instance in which John Kerry has shown the slightest bit of integrity.
Bar Sinister (f5ce19) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:27 amFor that matter, his judgment has been doubtful as well. Note his choice of running mate
when he ran for president. (remember Fluffy?)
John Boy Ed-wards was just a fellow cad looking to trade up (looks wise at least – Liz Edwards would have been a great Patricia Richardson like FL), that stains Uncle Newt as well.
urbanleftbehind (9ee190) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:32 amThink for a moment if Trump was able to broker a deal between Israel and PLO. Following his stunning election and in the direct aftermath of President Obama, Obama would be relegated to a smaller footnote asterik as the first black president. After such a deal, Obama’s footnote would be even smaller. You think Obama wants this?
Look at the Artic and Atlantic shelf. Fracking. Shale. Let’s say energy costs drop to such a level businesses don’t even plan for it. The economy takes off. Obama’s footnote nearly disappears.
We’ve heard white racists. Russian Hacking. Dog Whistles. Voter Suppression. Wikileaks. Obama basically calling Clinton a lousy candidate. I could have won if I was able to run.
This is all a play to deflect that Obama was in charge for 8 years and the Dems have been devastated at the federal, state and local level. The history books will record the first black president, the election and the last 2 months in summary fashion. Somewhere, you might find a small footnote of 1000+ lost politically elected positions. But it will be hard to find. This is an attempt to may that 1000 disappear from the record.
Steve_in_SoCal (58e1f9) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:32 amI think they are leaving Trump with conditions where war and economic stagnation are inevitable and will ruin him. And to hell with the American people!
Patricia (5fc097) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:53 amwhat that nasty squatty harvardtrash troll-woman at the fed did to interest rates is already crushing housing
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:58 amnk @42. Not quite accurate.
Senator Kerry and his wife Julia separated in 1982, and their civil divorce became final on July 25, 1988. Senator Kerry did not even meet his second wife until an Earth Day (= April 22) event in 1990, where he was introduced to her by Senator Heinz. He died in a plane crash on April 4, 1991. They didn’t meet again until 1992, at an Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their courtship began in 1993, and they were married on May 26, 1995, which was before his first marriage was annulled by the Roman Catholic Church in 1997.
Sammy Fnkelman (e1ddc6) — 12/29/2016 @ 8:34 amYellen is mostly a dove on interest rates.
Sammy Fnkelman (e1ddc6) — 12/29/2016 @ 8:35 amEvery foreign policy action instigated by Obama has damaged or destroyed America’s alliances built over the last century – every single one. He’s been on the other side from his first days in politics. Perhaps now even the bipartisan elites will recognize it.
crazy (d3b449) — 12/29/2016 @ 9:01 am36. 11B40 (6abb5c) — 12/28/2016 @ 8:11 pm
Gaza got mentioned in a New York Times editorial today, which was probably online by 11:11 pm EST yesterday and is after all, dated December 28.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/opinion/is-israel-abandoning-a-two-state-solution.html
Gaza is also mentioned in this artivle, dated 9:45 pm EST. Incoming House Majority Leader and New York State Senator Charles Schumer is quoted as saying that Kerry “seems to have forgotten the history off [sic] settlements in Gaza” and that Kerry’s speech may have “emboldened extremists on both sides.”
Israel withdrew and forced about 8,000, mostly unwilling, settlers to leave. It did so in a bad way, making it highly unlikely that Israel would agree to remove hundreds of thousands of people, and it doesn’t matter if 500,000 or 300,000, nor will they leave them behind to be ruled by Arabs. What was turned over, including greenhouses, was almost immediately destroyed by Hamas (not yet ruling Gaza) because they didn’t want any ordinary Arabs to benefit from anything left behind by Israel. Then maybe they wouldn’t want to destroy it. They might think it might one day be theirs. That’s not good for getting people to carry on war and terrorism.
Naftali Bennett, also described as a “senior Israeli Cabinet minister and ally of the West Bank settler movement” – it’s the same person, just described in two different ways, just like with that article about the changed evaluation of Putin’s prurpose which mentioned both the two senior U.S. intellligence officials and the CIA. Bennett is head of a party in coalition with Netanyahu’s Likud.
He is quoted as saying that Kerry’s speech is “divorced from reality” and that the Obama Administration policy has left the Middle East “in flames” what with the “genocide” in Syria, and Iran is “racing” toward a nuclear bomb. He accused the United States of “abandoning” Israel, and said Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 had created a Palestinian “terror state” and that “We’re not prepared to allow a second terror state in the heart of Israel.”
55. Steve_in_SoCal (58e1f9) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:32 am
I don’t like it that he seems to be actually thinking seriously about this idea. (He’s at least claiming to)
Of course, the real problem is the vilification and hostiliy to Israel. All this about booundaries and territories is “solving” the wrong problem.
And another point, the “secure and recognizzed” boundaries” mentioned in UN Security Council Resolution 242 from 1967 need to be recognized not just by a Palestinian party but by most of the world at large.
Saudi Arabia has a “peace plan,” but the whole plan is just a device to take off the pressure, and is totally insincere.
Settlements are an issue because they can be a wedge issue between Israel and its friends.
Sammy Fnkelman (8e756e) — 12/29/2016 @ 9:12 am60. crazy (d3b449) — 12/29/2016 @ 9:01 am
That’s because every single foreign policy initiative of his has involved making compromises…
…with reality.
Most politicians only do that when they draw up a budget.
Sammy Finkelman (8e756e) — 12/29/2016 @ 9:17 amMy daughter asked what was going on in Afghanistan, that she hasn’t heard much about it for awhile,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/29/2016 @ 9:45 amI told her to start looking for a description of how bad it is some weeks after Trump is sworn in.
The WaPo has little love for John Kerry:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-bloodbath-in-aleppo-will-haunt-humanity/2016/12/14/ffe0d646-c22a-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html
Kevin M (25bbee) — 12/29/2016 @ 10:31 amVladimir Putin puts an end to most of the civil war in Syria (?) before Donald Trump is inaugurated. Putin doesn’t want any of this what’s going on to get in his way, or perhaps just wants it over.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/world/middleeast/syria-cease-fire.html
Some groups backed by Turkey won’t be wiped out. A de facto safe zone will be established. Left out in he cold: ISIS, maybe some al Qaeda groups, or maybe not.
Sammy Finkelman (8e756e) — 12/29/2016 @ 10:41 am61. I made two mental blunders in the same sentence.
That should have been: Incoming Senate Minority Leader and New York Senator Charles Schumer.
Sammy Finkelman (39f7be) — 12/29/2016 @ 11:08 amGreetings, Sammy Finkelman: ( @ 61 (8e756e) – 12/29/2016 @ 9:12 am )
Thanks for the recap, Sammy. I kind of meant my inquiry to be a rhetorical question but these daze ideology easily trumps historical analogy. That one of our designated rulers could stand up before the world to lecture us and our ally and omit the pertinent history of the Gaza debacle tells me just how deep the kimchi that we have been lowered into is
.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 12/29/2016 @ 12:05 pmKerry did at least repeat some points Israel has made about Hamas and Fatah.
http://time.com/4619064/john-kerrys-speech-israel-transcript/
The UNESCO resolution did not assign any kind of historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem.
Sammy Finkelman (39f7be) — 12/29/2016 @ 12:57 pmGreetings, Sammy:
I’m pleased that Hamas and its Gaza got some kind of mention however halfheartedly. It still seems to me that action is being required much more from Israel than from those Muslimaniacs. As to the “humanitarian” aspects, well, that spells “cash cow” to me and I’ll bet pretty much all the Palestinians. Those “humanitarian” NGOs and non-profits have sold themselves to the “Palestinian” cause long, long ago. If there isn’t enough “jizya” trickling all the way down, I’m sorry but not very much.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 12/29/2016 @ 1:20 pmThe Washington Post Editorial Board tears into Kerry and Obama in a scathing rebuke of Obama’s 8 years of failure in the Middle East.
On Israel, we’re right back where Obama started
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/on-israel-were-right-back-where-obama-started/2016/12/29/ed1be840-cdea-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
Kevin M (25bbee) — 12/29/2016 @ 5:56 pmRemarkable that these 2 lazy cliche-babbling do nothings get all interested in going to work only when they become lame ducks.
Go away. You can go away mad, or go away disappointed in the American people failing to recognize your supposed genius. But for f__’s sake, GO AWAY ALREADY.
Bugg (08921e) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:22 pmMemri has the tell tale records of collaboration.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:27 pmI thought Barack was supposed to make the world like us.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:43 pmNow that he’s making all these countries angry at us, can the Nobel commmittee revoke his Peace Prize?
And now he’s playing the pantomime horse card with Russia, playing chicken with a county with 20’000 nuclear weapons, wcgr?
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:47 pmBarack promised Putin in 2012 that he would be more flexible after his re-election. He’s being an inflexible jerk.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 12/29/2016 @ 6:55 pmwcgrwcgwFTFY
BobStewartatHome (822f64) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:23 pmAw fer …. You Trumpkins take the cake. We get our panties in a wad because Obama said he would be more flexible with Putin, and now that Trump is crawling up Putin’s ass the sun shines out of it? Putin is USSR 4.0. Still a gangster government, still our most dangerous opponent.
nk (dbc370) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:28 pmWhat could (possibly) go wrong, so they are sanctioning one who hacked the exchanges in yep states, but he has no govt connection,
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:29 pmRight rebuilding our military, counting Cuba and Iran, who ate Russians regional proxies, meanwhile obama let him invade the Ukraine shoot down a civilian airliner, let snowden get away, stripped Poland of missilecdefensrs, I could go on..
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:34 pmAll this talk about one-state or two-state solutions will be mote once Iran has perfected its nuclear weapons. Talk-talk is just that, given the clarity with which the Iranians have declared their intentions. Does it comfort us to pretend that it won’t happen?
Just asking.
BobStewartatHome (822f64) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:36 pmCleArly because this will accelerate the atoms race till 1949, the us held the monopoly, then the UK got to it 52, the French in 60, the Israelis sometime after the 67 wars, the Dutch?? gave it to Pakistaniss, the Canadians helped the indians.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:43 pm80. BobStewartatHome (822f64) — 12/29/2016 @ 7:36 pm
What everybody is pretending is that Iran can’t possibly be planning on using them.
They are also almost pretending that with North Korea.
narciso @81. Also Red China in 1964. When Communist China replaced The republic of China (Taiwan) in the United Nations at the end of 1971, then the Security Council had the 5 nuclear powers on it as permanent mebers with the veto.
There’s also North Korea.
A high ranking North Korean diplomat in London just defected. He says Kim Jong UN is determined to get nuclear weapons by the end of 2017 – but doesn’t he already have it? Something is being lost in translation. He also opined that China won’t stop him because they don’t want a border with South Korea – which is the conventional wisdom supposedly explaining China’s motives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/world/asia/thae-yong-ho-north-korea-defector.html
Sammy Finkelman (151ce5) — 12/29/2016 @ 8:44 pmActually we’re talking about delivery systems that can hit the us, of course that nuke deal was struck by Wendy Sherman, who was the negotiator on the Iran deal.
narciso (d1f714) — 12/29/2016 @ 8:52 pmBenjamin Netanyahu likes to point out that Iran already has missiles that can reach Israel (at least with a amsll payload) – they’re developing missiles that can go further, and that’s to attack Israel.
Sammy Finkelman (c31643) — 12/30/2016 @ 7:43 amI think one possible reason why Kerry gave that speech was in order to have a more pro-Israel statement than what that U.N. resolution was.
Sammy Finkelman (c31643) — 12/30/2016 @ 7:45 am