With the US State Department desperately trying to avoid making any conclusive statements on Israel, the suggestion that it was at least possible that Israel is using “excessive force” in their bloody crackdowns on Palestinian protesters took two days of wiggle words to emerge.
The State Department was feverishly backpedaling today, insisting they never meant to suggest Israel had done wrong under any circumstances, though Israeli officials are still furious, and wasting no time in lining up to condemn the US on the matter.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan was quick to start mocking “foolish” State Department officials for offering any comments on the matter, while Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon insisted it made no sense to call killing Palestinian terrorists “excessive.”
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked went on to note that the NYPD routinely kills people, suggesting Israel is using them as a standard for the crackdown, and insisting Israel will “do what is needed” no matter how much the US objects. The indication, however, is that the US will desperately continue to try to not object.
Cut the b******s off.
I do believe I smell a US abstention at the UN on a vote to censure Israel– that the State Department is capable of growing a backbone is not impossible in the face of these wretched and ungrateful comments, . . . nah, just a random thought.
When we criticizes Israel we must always remember to tiptoe
gingerly, after all no one wants to be out of a job.
Israel can do anything it's sick little heart desires and nobody can ever say anything the least bit critical about her. And when the world finally pulls the plug on that sick nation after God knows how many people have died because of her existence, we will once again watch the surviving Zionists cry about how the world has made them into the biggest victims in history. Next time the world will not listen.
I'm pretty sure the NYPD is not going to take that as a compliment.
I've read elsewhere of the Israelis claiming they will be applying "American rules" for use of deadly force in policing.
Meanwhile, American police are busily denying that the rules the Israeli's claim to be adopting are in fact the American rules for police use of deadly force.
What rules? At the first hint of an excuse, shoot and keep shooting until the perp is certainly dead. Then render no aid to ensure there can be no survival. For an excuse, anything will do. The assumption is that the cop had his reasons.
Can anyone deny those ARE the American rules?
"Meanwhile, American police are busily denying that the rules the Israeli's claim to be adopting are in fact the American rules for police use of deadly force."
Because they are the ISRAELI RULES for police use of deadly force! Is it not a FACT that Israeli security companies are teaching American law enforcement? At this rate and course we will all be Palestinians in the near future!
>Is it not a FACT that Israeli security companies are teaching American law enforcement?
Yes it IS a fact, and thank you for pointing that out Hank. There was an article in the Miami Herald a few months back which boasted of such training. This is likely taking place in every American urban center that the chosen run. Come to think of it, that's all of them isn't it? WEEP FOR AMERICA LOST!
I know it is happening in my suburb outside of Boston. These are not just junkets they are taking to a warm climate. They are undergoing training in what they believe is superior policing, but since Americans are not paying attention to what their cops are learning, it is not seen as potentially dangerous as in "American Lives Matter".
I think the idea is that the rich in this nation are surrounded by enemies much like the Israelis are surrounded by terrorist Palestinians (I believe neither side of the proposition), so there is the idea that even in your own home town, you are in a war zone which must be mercilessly policed by characters who also have personal issues about authority and long for abject respect (withholding of which is punishable by death).
Lets just call it 'murder' instead then.