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I used to have a little bit of respect for Susan, but after reading this garbage, any respect I had just flew out the door.
Read it for yourself.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/28/1507426/-Susan-Sarandon-A-Privileged-Fool
She also said that Trump could make a better president than Hillary!!! More garbage!!
When it comes to the Republicans, particularly the House Republicans, I like to throw sharp elbows, but I am going to try a more conciliatory tone here because I think there’s some small sliver of hope that they might do the right thing. Back on March 10th, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 in a 94-1 roll call. (I wrote about the effort to pass that bill here).
You would think that a bill that can get 94 votes in the Senate (with only Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska dissenting) should be able to pass in the House. But it’s not a sure thing for the precise reason you might guess. A significant number of House Republicans don’t agree on the cause of the huge spike in opioid overdoses that has overtaken our communities over the last decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were 29,000 opioid-related deaths in 2014, of which only 10,500 were due to heroin use. Unfortunately, prescription opioids are the biggest killer, and most heroin addicts today got started on prescription drugs. Nonetheless, House Republicans cling to the idea that drug interdiction is the key. They also blame a relaxation of marijuana restrictions for creating a permissive culture for drug abuse, and they think the president isn’t being aggressive enough in prosecuting drug crimes.
Still, other largely partisan differences could complicate passage of any House-altered version of the Senate’s bill.
That’s because Republicans and Democrats agree that the country’s opioid drug abuse epidemic affects most states and districts, but a House hearing just before the recess period began exposed partisan rifts over key factors driving the addiction epidemic problem.
Democrats largely link the uptick in prescription painkiller-related deaths to a lack of access to treatment and drugs designed to prevent overdoses. But House Oversight and Government Reform Republicans see the root problems as subpar efforts to stop drug traffickers, laws making marijuana illegal, and fewer drug-related prosecutions.
There’s really two fights going on here. One fight is over whether to put any real money into this bill (and when to appropriate it), and the other is over what the bill should pay for.
The opioid epidemic requires a comprehensive approach, but this bill is supposed to address addiction and recovery, which means the focus should be on how to help people survive and beat their dependency on opioids. Once your kid is hooked on heroin, it’s a little too late to interdict the drug at the border.
Regardless, Congress ought to agree to authorize the spending now and then they can hopefully hold hearings and better educate themselves about what the recovery community needs. The bill should not die because there’s a disagreement over what causes people to get addicted. That fight won’t save one person who is currently at risk of overdosing.
Now, the president is going to be attending a summit on this issue today that was organized by House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers of Kentucky. This powerful Republican lawmaker knows very well how urgent this matter is because his home state has been ground zero for the epidemic. Hopefully, Rogers can have some influence on his colleagues. I certainly hope so.
Just last night, I got word that a friend of a friend had to bury her 21 year old daughter who overdosed last Tuesday in her college dorm room. I spend a lot of time in the local recovery community here in Pennsylvania, and we’ve been burying a lot of kids lately, including the children of some of our most prominent and respected citizens.
Our country needs Congress to stop squabbling and get to work on this issue. I’m hoping the House Republicans can find a way to do that.
P.S. See also the story of Jessica Grubb.
When it comes to the electability argument, which do you think is bigger? The subset of the electorate that is normally in the Republican corner but is appalled enough by Trump to crossover and help Hillary Clinton win, or the subset of the electorate that is never going to vote for a guy who displays no religious faith and is clearly to the far left on economic issues?
Personally, I think Trump eliminates the argument that Sanders can’t get elected. I think he’d have a solid chance against Trump. But mostly in a “someone has to win” category, like when the Jacksonville Jaguars play the Tennessee Titans.
Therefore, I just don’t buy the talking point that Sanders has no chance.
On the other hand, I don’t think he’d get the same degree of crossover as Clinton from Republicans.
But, then, Sanders would do better than Clinton with young voters.
I’m asking you the question, but my answer is that both Clinton and Sanders can win, but Sanders is more likely to lose, and also more likely to win narrowly, if he wins.
They criticized the president for attending a baseball game after the terrorist attacks in Brussels, but look at what the Republican frontrunner was doing:
Trump has been at the center of many of the campaign’s most vitriolic moments. The real estate mogul has insulted Carly Fiorina’s looks, questioned Ben Carson’s religion, and endlessly mocked Bush, Rubio and Cruz.
His latest fight with Cruz began Tuesday night, hours after the terrorist attacks in Brussels, when Trump tweeted: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
Of course, we know what happened next. Trump retweeted a picture of his wife looking beautiful alongside a picture of Cruz’s wife looking awkward.
Yeah, it’s embarrassing, but it’s also hypocritical. The president said it’s important for us not to let terrorists interrupt our daily lives and routines. For some, taking in a baseball game is a normal routine, for others it’s tweeting out insults about rivals’ wives.
‘Football Hooligans’? what a bs … just name the beast by what these “protestors” are!
Brussels police clash with far-right mob at attacks shrine | France24 |
Belgian riot police fired water cannon on Sunday to disperse far-right football hooligans who disrupted mourners at a shrine for victims of the Brussels attacks, as police arrested several suspects in a series of new raids.
In scenes that compounded a week of grief for Belgians, black-clad protesters shouting anti-immigrant slogans moved in on the makeshift memorial at Place de la Bourse where hundreds of people had gathered in a show of solidarity.
The clashes between the far-right demonstrators and police underscored the tensions in Belgium after Tuesday’s Islamic State suicide attacks on the airport and the metro system in which 28 people died and 340 were wounded.
“This is our home” and “The state, Daesh accomplice” around 300 hooligans chanted, using an alternate term for IS, as they gathered near the square by the stock exchange building, AFP journalists witnessed.
Some trampled on the carpet of flowers, candles and messages left at the site by mourners in recent days while at least one wore a mask with a well-known far-right symbol.
Earlier article about Belgium and Islamization in Europe …
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Why so many jihadists come from Belgium | Business Insider |‘Fascists! Fascists!’
Police urged the mourners, who included some Muslims, not to provoke the hooligans, but some chanted “Fascists! Fascists! We’re not having it!”
Riot police with helmets and shields corralled the hooligans before dispersing them with high power water jets, and marshalling them onto trains out of the city.
Brussels mayor Yvan Mayeur said police had done “nothing” to stop the hooligans coming to Brussels despite having advance warning, adding that he was “appalled” that “such thugs have come to provoke residents at the site of their memorial.”
The mourners gathered despite the fact that organisers had earlier called off a “March Against Fear” in Brussels on Easter Sunday at the request of Belgian authorities, who said police needed the resources for the attacks investigation.
Muslims from Molenbeek are united to mourn deaths and victims of suicide attacks
Before anti-immigration and Islamophobia took roots in The Netherlands with Geert Wilders and Ayaan Hirshi Ali, the Flemish Nationalists in Belgium were already active to provoke and divide the bilingual nation: French of Wallonia and Dutch in the Flemish parts. It doesn’t take a prophet to foresee the misery surrounding us today!
Secretary of State John Kerry is concerned about the tone:
Kerry said that everywhere he goes, every leader he meets asks about what is happening in America.
“They cannot believe it. I think it is fair to say that they’re shocked. They don’t know where it’s taking the United States of America,” Kerry said in an interview on the Sunday CBS news show “Face The Nation.”
“It upsets people’s sense of equilibrium about our steadiness, about our reliability, and to some degree I must say to you, some of the questions, the way they’re posed to me, it’s clear to me that what’s happening is an embarrassment to our country.”
And he’s not talking about the Democratic side of the contest:
Kerry was asked out the impact abroad of the Republican campaign with its calls for bans on Muslim immigrants, surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods and the return of waterboarding, an interrogation practice regarded as torture.
He might have been asked about other things, too, like promises to “bomb the shit” out of Arabs, assassinate family members of suspected terrorists, turn the whole region into glowing radioactive glass, and so on.
That’s gotta be awkward when you’re sitting down with the King of Jordan or some Emir in the Gulf States.
On the other hand, if you’re a recruiter from ISIS and you’re making a pitch that America is out to get Muslims and needs to get smacked with a few good-sized suicide attacks, well, that stuff is pure gold.
So, I think this is quite a bit more serious than just being some kind of inconvenient embarrassment.
My title is from the King James Version of the of the New Testament, Matthew 7:16-20, which relates Jesus’ parable of the Tree and its Fruits. Here is the full version:
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Here are the words of Hillary Clinton, as quoted yesterday in the New York Times, when she spoke to Boeing workers in Everett:
With Mr. Sanders’s focus on income inequality and taking on Wall Street, Mrs. Clinton has continued to reach out to working-class voters, including holding a rally on Tuesday at a machinists and aerospace workers union hall at the Boeing factory in Everett, Wash.
“I was made an honorary machinist some years ago, so I feel a particular connection here to my brothers and sisters in the machinists,” she told the crowd. “I am no person new to this struggle. I am not the latest flavor of the month. I have been doing this work day in and day out for years.”
She feels “a particular connection” to her “brothers and sisters” in the machinists. She proclaims that she is not the flavor of the month. She’s says she has been working hard for the working class for years. A lovely sentiment and a compelling argument, if true. But to me, when you look at her record, the fruit she bears smells of disease and decay:
For example, her persistent efforts promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (until she decided to oppose it after declaring her candidacy) does not strike me as good fruit for the working class, especially the union members.
CNN noted 45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes, i.e. the TPP. Here are a smattering of those 45 times she spoke in favor of it while she was Secretary of State.
“We’ve used trade negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership to find common ground with a former adversary in Vietnam.”
January 13, 2013 – Remarks With Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida After Their Meeting
“We also discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and we shared perspectives on Japan’s possible participation, because we think this holds out great economic opportunities to all participating nations.”
November 29, 2012 -Remarks at the Foreign Policy Group’s “Transformational Trends 2013” Forum
“In a speech in Singapore last week, I laid out America’s expanding economic leadership in the region, from new trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership to stepped-up efforts on behalf of American businesses.”
November 17, 2012: Delivering on the Promise of Economic Statecraft
“And with Singapore and a growing list of other countries on both sides of the Pacific, we are making progress toward finalizing a far-reaching new trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The so-called TPP will lower barriers, raise standards, and drive long-term growth across the region.”
November 15, 2012 – Remarks at Techport Australia
This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field.
… and so on and so forth, dating back to Janury 12, 2010
And what do we know about the draft provisions of the TPP regarding workers’ rights? It won’t be worth the paper it’s written on when it comes to improving labor rights in other countries. Why? Because, unlike corporations who will be able to sue countries in to protect their interests under the TPP, labor unions, trade federations and workers’ rights advocacy groups will have no independent forum to force the signatories to comply with the TPP’s provisions on labor rights.
A major concern about the TPP’s labor chapter is that it can only be enforced by governments. The TPP empowers member countries to bring legal disputes against other member countries for violating the labor chapter’s terms. But while unions, labor advocacy groups, and trade federations could lobby or petition the US or other governments to take formal action to enforce the TPP’s provisions, they will not be able to file a complaint under the agreement. This contrasts sharply with investors and corporations, who can bring dispute settlement proceedings against member countries under the agreement’s provisions on Investor-State Dispute Resolution (ISDR) mechanisms. […]
The example of Guatemala, which ratified the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2006, highlights these problems. In 2008, Guatemalan and United States labor groups began petitioning the United States to bring a trade tribunal case against Guatemala for its failure to uphold core standards in CAFTA’s labor chapter. Seven years later, in 2015, the United States finally did so. This was the first and only time it has ever brought a case against another country for a labor chapter violation under a free trade agreement.
I know you are shocked to discover that Hillary Clinton, when she was in one of the most powerful positions in the Obama administration, worked relentlessly to promote a trade deal that she now opposes, sort of. Makes you wonder why any labor union would endorse her, all things considered.
In June 2015, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told 1,300 fast food workers, “I want to be your champion,” and that she supported their push for a $15 minimum wage.
Despite such a pledge, her support of their cause was more of a Faustian strategy than one of genuine interest. Ms. Clinton recently endorsed a $12 minimum wage. Her opponents, Senator Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley both voiced their support for a $15 minimum wage early in their campaigns, but it took until early November for Ms. Clinton to affirm her stance on the issue.
And yet, the SEIU, who has made the $15 minimum wage one it’s core issues, endorsed her anyway. They, and other unions that support her, have done so with full knowledge that she has never been a strong advocate for labor unions or workers’ rights in this country. On the contrary, she has been missing in action, to put the best face on her record on labor rights.
[Hillary] served as a board member from 1986-1992, while the corporation waged campaigns against labor unions seeking to unionize store workers. There is no evidence she ever vocalized her support for labor unions, and ABC News obtained videos of several board meetings she attended and remained silent as her fellow board members worked out anti-union strategies. The New York Times reported in 2007 that Ms. Clinton maintains close ties to Wal-Mart executives, but omits her past affiliation with the company in her speeches and website. At the time of her appointment to Wal-Mart’s board, she held nearly $100,000 in stock and was a lawyer with the Rose Law Firm, which represented the company in several cases. Her current campaign treasurer, Jose Villareal, has also spent decades on boards of Wal-Mart and other companies run by their owners, the Walton family.
She’s still pals around with Walmart executives, and her campaign treasurer is a Walmart man to his very bones, but she wants us to believe she will transform herself as President into a champion for the working class? The same Hillary Clinton who said one thing about opposing charter schools and the use of standardized test scores to evaluate teachers in order to get the endorsements of teachers unions, but an entirely different thing to Eli Broad, a billionaire and the head of a controversial foundation for market driven “education reform” (some truly sinister reforms in my eyes) in order to get him to donate to her campaign.
Policy aide Ann O’Leary posted an essay on medium.com assuring that “yes, Hillary Clinton supports charter schools,” as long as they are high quality. Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon added that Mrs. Clinton supports federal funding to expand “high-quality charter schools.” But he said she doesn’t think the federal government should require school districts to tie teacher pay to student test scores.
Mr. Broad, who runs a foundation focused on education and has donated more than $2 million to Democrats in the last quarter century, said he rejected a request to contribute to the pro-Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, saying he needed reassurances about her views on education.
He said he was reassured after conversations with Messrs. Clinton and Podesta that Mrs. Clinton would in fact support charter schools, and he said he believes she will support teacher-accountability measures. He said he now expects to financially support her campaign.
“I think when push gets to shove, she’ll be more like Bill Clinton and perhaps [Obama Education Secretary] Arne Duncan than we think right now,” he said.
Bernie Sanders has been consistent in his support for workers’ rights for over his entire career as a politician. Bernie, from his earliest days as the mayor of Burlington, VT worked to support unions, workers and working class families.
As mayor, Sanders immediately hired a new human resources director for Burlington. This union-friendly lawyer worked to improve relations between city hall and municipal workers represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
During his four terms, Sanders continued to champion the cause of workers, tenants, the poor, and unemployed, while revitalizing the city. Under the Sanders administration, Burlington backed worker co-ops, affordable housing initiatives, new cultural and youth programs, and development of the city’s waterfront in a way that preserved public access and use.
Bernie never belonged to the board of directors of any multinational corporation with a track record of demonizing unions and doing all it could to ensure it’s labor costs are among the lowest in the nation. Nor has he taken contributions from big money donors whose ideas on education reform include the following:
What is a Broadie? It is someone, with or without an education background, who attended a series of weekend seminars sponsored by the Eli Broad Superintendents Academy. This “academy” has no accreditation. It focuses on management style, not education. The Broad Foundation picks people to learn its autocratic management style and places them in a district where Broad has influence and might even supplement the leader’s salary. Once placed, you may surround yourself with other Broadies to push decisions on unwilling teachers and principals who know more than you do about the local schools and students. […]
Broad and other market-driven reformers are stepping up the use of mass school closures to defeat teachers, unions, and parents who oppose them. … [T]hey impose a brutal policy where the highest-challenge students are crammed into the schools that were already the most segregated, under-resourced and low-performing. In other words, they sabotage the highest-challenge neighborhood schools in order to discredit educators in them who seek win-win school improvement policies.
That Hillary’s campaign made an effort to reassure this monster that she won’t really oppose his kind of education reform in order to get his donation to her campaign, frankly stinks. But then so does her long and sordid history with Walmart and the Walton family. Or to return to my original theme, the fruit of Hillary’s labors makes it evident to all but those who are willing to firmly hold their noses that she is a corrupt tree, one which bears rotten fruit that poisons the body politic.
I prefer the flavor of the fruit that comes from Bernie’s tree, for he is a good tree without any stain or rot of corruption.
Thus endeth today’s sermon.
There are pockets of this country where engaged Democrats are emphatically rejecting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. And it has to be a concern for her campaign.
The front-runner may possess a substantial lead, support from elected officials, and the backing of the party establishment. But in the three states where voters caucused on Saturday, they cast their ballots for Bernie Sanders by huge margins. In Hawaii, with most votes tallied, he chalked up 71 percent; in Washington, he held 73 percent; and in Alaska, he claimed 82 percent support.
…Sanders’s voters seem undeterred by Clinton’s advantages. “I feel like probably for the first time since I’ve been voting I connect with somebody I really believe in and that I trust,” one supporter told the Seattle Times. Saturday’s vote suggests she’s not alone. Party officials in Washington said that at least 225,000 voters showed up, rivaling the record turnout of 2008; the 10,600 who voted in Alaska exceeded that state’s 2008 tally; and the 33,716 in Hawaii, while below the 2008 level, included 7,000 new Democrats registered since late last year.
Sanders won from wall to wall. He took every county in Washington, and in Alaska, he posted double-digit margins in all 40 districts.
It many ways this is a repeat of 2008, the difference being that Clinton has the black vote this time around and that was enough for her to build a huge delegate lead in the South. She is probably fortunate that the southern states voted before the industrial Midwest and before Sanders could demonstrate romping victories in the Mountain States and Far West.
What’s clear is that Clinton will have to deal with very widespread disappointment within her own base when she becomes the nominee. To compensate, she’ll have to show the army of Bernie supporters some immediate and tangible rewards for their efforts and their successes. She’ll also have to hope that she can win the enthusiastic support and endorsement of Sanders. Without these things, there will be large-scale disaffection, with a whole new generation of organizers feeling like the game is rigged and tempted to drop out in a fit of cynicism and apathy. Many more will move over to a fairly disloyal oppositional stance to her presidency, possibly coalescing into a more potent primary challenge in 2020.
Clinton’s weakness and failure to consolidate the party behind her is not necessarily a liability in a head-to-head contest against someone like Trump who shares the same liabilities to a much greater degree. A disgruntled left can help convince wary voters that she’s a moderate, middle-of-the-road “safe” choice, especially compared to the unpredictable real estate clown.
But she’ll need a friendlier Congress, including a Senate controlled by Chuck Schumer and a House that will be at least de facto controlled by Democrats and Republican appropriators. She does not want to see all the newly registered voters who are going for Sanders dropping out of the general because they only got into politics to support her primary opponent.
She might want to start winning some states again, too, since losing in places like Pennsylvania and her home state of New York would be embarrassing and cause her to limp to the finish line rather than cross it in a triumphant sprint.
If I were John Podesta, I’d be making up a very big gift bag for Bernie. This would include consultations on the veep, and concessions on many key appointments. Sanders will want a say in the staffing at Treasury, for example. He may have other demands, too. He’ll need to get some very visible wins that he can show his voters so they can feel like what they’ve done has made a difference and can continue to make a difference.
Israel’s shame as a democratic state knows no boundaries … figuratively and literally. Where the ideals of kibbutz life under the Labor party has evolved through arrogance and military power to a settler nation of occupied Palestinians by Likud and more extreme right-wing (religious) parties. Fascist acts are repeated and the masses cry for more revenge. The Israelis have gained independence at the expense of Palestinians in 1948, but are acting in the manner of the Roman occupation 2100 years ago. The scholars of the temple determine daily life of Israelis and the military take revenge for any trangression without consideration of human life and a court of justice. We cannot turn away from these ugly incidents and accept this as a new standard of our moral values.
200 Israelis protest in solidarity with soldier who shot neutralized terrorist | Ynet News |
Earlier Saturday, the sister wrote a post on Facebok harshly criticizing Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and the IDF. “My little brother shot a terrorist who came with a knife to murder IDF soldiers in Hebron, and all of a sudden he’s suspected of murder. Meaning, the system is accusing my brother the soldier of the murder of a terrorist who came to commit murder. I’m not sure you’re realizing how absurd that is,” she wrote.
She noted her brother did not expect praise for killing the terrorist, and only wants a fair trial. “We feel like the knife dropped by the terrorist in Hebron was used by the system to stab my little brother in the back,” he said.
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot was briefed on the investigation’s progress and praised the soldiers who stopped the attack and their professional conduct. He noted that the IDF was waging a determined and professional fight against terrorism and that the results of this fight can be felt on the ground. He added that the IDF will back soldiers and commanders who committed mistakes, but not when their behavior is not in line with the military’s values.
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Poster depicting IDF chief as Haman and calling on him to resign (Photo: Motti Kimchi)Eisenkot’s comments caused outrage, and posters were put up near the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv depicting him as Haman the evil and calling on his to resign.
Sources in the IDF condemned the posters, saying they are “inciting and dangerous.”
More to follow below the fold …
IDF Soldier Who Executed Unarmed Palestinian, and Commanding Officer–Exposed | Tikun Olam |
Yesterday two Palestinian youths attempted to stab an IDF soldier (this account is in Hebrew with some English added) in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. The soldier was lightly wounded and treated at the scene. The two Palestinians were each wounded, one mortally. They both lay on the ground, without moving. Both were unarmed. The Palestinian who’d been wounded, Abd al-Fatah a-Sharif, lay on the ground near a group of settlers and soldiers. One of the settlers said to the soldiers: “This asshole here is still breathing.”
It goes without saying that a security gag order prohibits Israeli media from reporting this story or the identities of the killer and his commander, which I will do below. I could not have reported this story or learned much of this information without the invaluable aid of many Israelis, who may not be named in order to protect them from the ravages of the national security state.
An IDF soldier who was a medic in the unit and who had treated the wounded soldier, asked permission from his commanding officer to “finish off” the wounded Palestinian. Apparently the commander approved. The soldier walked to within six feet of the wounded Palestinian cocked his rifle and shot him. This practice is often called ‘confirming the kill’ in the IDF. Palestinian girls as young as 12 years-old have been executed in this fashion before. Last week, Bassam Massalha, after being wounded, was executed as video filmed his murder.
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Back in Hebron, when the shooter returned to his commanding officer, he went through the formal rituals of confirming the use of his weapon and that was the end of it, they expected. Instead, a Palestinian activist had videotaped the entire incident. He gave the video to the Israeli human rights NGO, B’Tselem, which subsequently circulated the video far and wide, after submitting it to the military censor. It’s been reported by media outlets around the world, including the BBC and many others.The videographer, Imad Abu Shamsiyah, is in hiding. Settlers surrounded his home, stoned it, and shouted: “Death to Imad.” Neither Israeli soldiers nor police intervened.
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Luckily, the Israeli far-right gossip forum, Rotter, has identified him along with pictures. He is El-Or Azarya, a resident of the poor Israeli town of Ramleh, near Tel Aviv.Other activists in Israel have helped further identifying him, finding Facebook accounts and photographs which document him before the execution. He is a devoted follower of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club. The most hardcore racist Beitar fans have formed a gangland-style fan club called La Famigilia. He’s also written “Kahane was right!” on his Facebook page.
Among the pages he’s Liked on Facebook are the far-right Kahanist, Baruch Marzel; the racist rapper, The Shadow, who advocated burning Palestinians alive on his Facebook page; the La Famiglia page; Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked; and Avigdor Lieberman.
Our next President Hillary Rodham Clinton: “I will invite Binyamin Netanyahu as first ally and leader to the White House!”
SHAME!!
As expected, Bernie Sanders is going to win in Washington and Alaska. We’ll have to wait a while for the results from Hawai’i. I expect him to win there, too.
Could be a nice Saturday sweep. It keeps him going, although it does little to change the race, which is already nearly put to bed.
Still, no one can argue that he isn’t putting up a strong challenge.