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Texas Khaan's avatar

Alliances always and everywhere should be temporary, not a monetary phenomenon. Friedman should know this.

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May 12Edited

Whoever dumped this message can’t spell Mr Wauck’s name correctly. Ad and “jerk-free zone.”

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Interesting - hat tip Simplicius’s post:

“By the way, neocon is a pejorative for Jew. Unbelievable.”

Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow

https://x.com/marklevinshow/status/1920999438639624225?

Backstory to tweet:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/foxs-mark-levin-drops-scathing-attack-on-trumps-middle-east-envoy/

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Manul's avatar

I can’t listen to Levin any more due to his hysterical justification of all things Israel. He reaches the pinnacle of power in the U.S. with a talk show and he’s persecuted by all the anti-semites? And don’t ya know that the U.S. has a huge anti-Semite problem? He and Ben Shapiro protest too much!

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dissonant1's avatar

Wow, Levin is a touchy fellow. "In a later post, Levin wrote, 'By the way, neocon is a prerogative for Jew.'" Seems like there is a Freudian slip in there someplace.

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ML's avatar

“Seems?!” That was a doozy.

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ML's avatar

Time to let neocons be bygones, Jewish or not!

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Wolf J Flywheel's avatar

Levin has always seemed like controlled opposition. It's just more obvious now.

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Joe's avatar

Just happened to have recently re-read this

and thought it interesting - as it appears a true intention or true thinking - not a developed or nuanced 'political speak'

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Jared Kushner: “It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner said.

CNN ARTICLE ENTITLED: Jared Kushner expected to be pivotal to Trump admin’s Middle East efforts without taking a formal job

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/jared-kushner-trump-middle-east-policy?cid=ios_app

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I believe this provides the True Trump Family Perspective --- on Gaza --- and at the same time provides the Trump / Kushner / Netanyahu True or Hoped for Intentions on the Final Cleansing.

IMHO You can bet your a$$ this is what Kushner is discussing with all of his partners including family.

"""""" It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation """"""

Yes Kushner actually phrased or characterized the Gaza Plausible Genocide as

""" a little bit... unfortunate """

---- So Trump can speak now - politic speak with nuanced sentences - but this kind of Historical Information and Discussion reminds me where the Trump family is coming from, and in my opinion --- what they really are thinking at the dinner table

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Tamsin's avatar

Earlier this year I listened to the first part of a Lex Fridman -- Jared Kushner interview taped October 5, 2023, with an addendum taped October 9, 2023. I became aware there is a long history of plans for redeveloping Gaza, long conversations within the American Jewish community about the ethics of solving a geopolitical problem by the removal of an entire people. We can listen in, but we have no representation. Sad.

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Tristam's avatar

Maybe the "American Jewish community" lives in a different reality from others. All of the speculations & rationalizations about why Trump does XYZ -- It's not just the $$$; Trump is part of that "AJ community;" he's lived his whole life in that milieu and thinks that way. (DJT's parents both died in their 90s at Jewish hospital in Long Island.)

But does Barron? What will his son's life be like if his father becomes the man who presided over genocide in order to build a theme park?

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Tamsin's avatar

Yes, consider how Thomas Friedman phrased it, Simplicius bolded it:

"Your Jewish grandchildren will be the first generation of Jewish children who will grow up in a world where the Jewish state is a pariah state."

Completely unaware of how that particularity sounds to everyone else in America who does not and will never have Jewish grandchildren. Like Obama declaring that if he had a son, his son would look like Trayvon.

How about "Your Gentile grandchildren will be the first generation of Gentile children who will grow up in an America where the Gentile man who makes no claim to a non-white ancestor is a pariah."

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Exactly.

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Joe's avatar

tidbits :

""" Some former diplomats and critics of the Trump administration point out that Kushner has significant financial interests in the region """

""" “Friendships are forever in this region,” said an Israeli source who dealt with the first Trump administration, speaking to the deep personal relationships that Kushner developed """

""" Kushner is currently fully available to brief and advise all of those who will be working on issues related to the Middle East """

""" in recent years his fund received $2 billion in funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. """

""" “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable …"""

""" Kushner is also close to Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, who he has known since he was young. An anecdote emerged during Trump’s first presidency that when he was a teenager, Kushner gave up his bedroom for a night so Netanyahu would have a place to sleep while visiting the Kushners’ home in New Jersey. """

""" Kushner will have a hand in the administration’s forthcoming approach to the Middle East whether or not he is serving in the administration. """

RE: WITKOFF """ “If he wants to succeed and does not establish working relationship with Kushner and Rubio (Trump’s secretary of state pick) he is making a gigantic mistake.” """

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Archived: https://archive.ph/eKV8D#selection-2339.13-2339.147

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dissonant1's avatar

Yes, I had been under the impression (at least until March) that his government had popular support. Then I saw this poll, which is the same one as you cite but in this story actually addresses the removal of his regime:

https://allisrael.com/new-poll-60-of-israelis-want-netanyahu-to-resign-coalition-government-loses-majority

I can only imagine how much lower his support must be now. Everything is rapidly becoming untenable for his government.

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