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Israel’s Future, and Ours

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/26/2024 12:54:33 AM

Naftali Bennett, the once and future Prime Minister of Israel, was the keynote speaker at American Experiment’s Annual Dinner earlier this month. I was privileged to spend some time with Bennett, and found him deeply impressive. I will be surprised if he is not Israel’s Prime Minister within the next two years. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Bennett has an op-ed titled “The U.S. and Israel’s Common Fight.” Nothing in it will be new to readers of this web site, but it makes some fundamental points, very well: Elections come and go. Leaders change. But the values Israel and the U.S. represent are eternal. The death cult of Hamas

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FormerDem 6/26/2024 10:15:46 AM (No. 1743819)
Maybe the nonviolent way forward to fold Muslims into the West is to just start talking about the tenets of the faith? How else can we say and clarify that most Muslims believe something that is not too different from Unitarianism apart from the more interesting clothes of the Middle East.... But that what Iran is preaching is right all the way off the board? There is a saying in Catholicism that a person can go to Hell by imitating the bad qualities of the saints. And this is kind of what I think of Iran. Just a few favorite quotes wrongly selected, and off they all go to unperishing fire. This thing about Jews and trees. It is a fine example of the precept. Let that one go, for the love of God. It is a human remark and was put into the mouth of God by mistake.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: kidsmom 6/26/2024 10:55:33 AM (No. 1743853)
The Israel/United States alliance must remain impervious to interference from other nations. We don't need any other nation to "broker" or "mediate" any agreements we are going to make with them or to criticize the ones we already have--we have always understood each other quite well. Let Israel be Israel--and support them 100 percent.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: rikkitikki 6/26/2024 1:24:05 PM (No. 1743950)
The death cult of Islam is the antithesis of life and liberty. Nothing could be more alien to the American way than using women and children as human shields, etc. There, I fixed it.
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