Stupidity incarnate: Sarah Palin on Obama and the Israeli settlements
Sarah Palin has said a lot of stupid things since entering the national stage last year, but this, from her interview with Barbara Walters, is right up there with the stupidest of them all:
I disagree with the Obama administration on that. I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.
She's siding here with the most extreme elements of Israeli society, the far-right colonialists who wish to occupy Palestianian land (and call it their own).
And she seems to think that Israel should expand as much as it wants, with no regard whatsoever for the Palestinian people, let alone for any possibility of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
And what does it mean that "[m]ore and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead." Is there some reverse diaspora about to happen that I'm not aware of? Does Palin know something the rest of us don't?
As for whether the U.S. can tell Israel what to do... well, look, I'm generally a friend and supporter of Israel, and I think it has every right to assert its sovereignty over its own territory, but the occupied territories pose a rather more complicated challenge that the U.S. has every right to be concerned about. Besides, where would Israel be without the U.S.? This doesn't mean the U.S. can order Israel around, but it does mean that the U.S. can and ought to involve itself in Israeli affairs that threaten or undermine peace efforts or that otherwise could impact, and do impact, Israel's neighbours. Besides, there will only be peace in the region, and between Israel and the Palestinians, if the U.S. acts as an honest broker, and if the U.S. isn't simply Israel's unconditional ally and advocate. Palin clearly doesn't grasp any of that, and her "policy" is both ignorant and dangerous.
And some people actually think she belongs in the Oval Office?
Labels: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sarah Palin, U.S. foreign policy
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
11:00 AM
4 Comments:
Palin is more dangerous than Al Qaeda and more ignorant than. . . Well, there must be something -- give me some time on that one.
Of course this massive return to Israel is part of her Revelation based Apocalypse loving literalism. The Jews will return to fulfill Mad John of Patmos's prediction and from thence will proceed to the vast lake of fire and eternal damnation presided over by the God of Love while Sarah and Pastor Muthee get launched up to wherever it is that God put the Trilobites and the dinosaurs.
Right.
I think I'll be staying in Florida, thanks anyway.
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Capt. Fogg, at 2:41 PM
Ho hum. More Palin bashing from the idiot fringe.
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Gunner Sykes, at 7:41 PM
Well, she may be an idiot, but she's smart enough to know you can't become president without getting on all fours and servicing the Chosenites.
Consider Obama. The very instant that Zionist stooge became the Democratic Party's nominee, he ran off to AIPAC to get annointed.
Americans who place US interests above Israel's should be outraged by all this bulls**t.
Enlist in the US military? Sure. To defend *which* country?
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Anonymous, at 10:46 PM
I understand your article's viewpoint, except for your comment about the reverse diaspora. There has been and continues to be a reverse diaspora going on to the land we now call Israel since the 1890s and especially since Israel became a nation in 1948. It is typically called aliyah (Ascend to Israel). It has involved Jews from all over the world, with Russia and Europe probably topping the list and continues to this day. That is what I think Palin was referring to.
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J Clayton, at 3:30 PM
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