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"One issue I see is that Pres Biden has said that the US will always support Israel. Fmr Pres Trump has said similar things." LAMPLIGHTER at #5 above.
Both come from a generational perspective steeped in Israel's founding and the mythologies surrounding it. You could hardly escape exposure that in the US during the 1950s and 1960s. Think of the movie Exodus, based on the 1958 Leon Uris novel with the same title. Add the political reaffirmation of Israel by both political parties, politicians looking for money and votes, organized lobbying, etc., and you can end up where both Biden and Trump are now on the subject: up that proverbial creek without a paddle. Trump could hardly care less: he'd be hawking copies of the Koran if he thought it might give him some advantage. As for Biden, at best he may feel badly misled and deeply disappointed, for which he should blame only himself. That mythology I mentioned earlier? It bears critical examination, as do all mythologies . From that, perhaps rethinking and reformulation of one's outlook with an eye toward attaining a more reality-based view.
#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-13 07:34 AM | Reply | Flag:| Newsworthy 2

Gorgeous sentiment, being a messiah. He knows children are being massacred en mass.

It is obvious that Biden does not love Netanyahu. The nature of this relationship is not just theological or military. It is political.

Netanyahu is threatening something political that impacts successions of presidents.

Some knowledge his predecessors utilized that apparently cannot be circumvented by anything less than power that Bush Sr. wielded.

Frankly, it's strange.

Pet Shop Boys - One Of The Crowd

When I go fishing with my rod
I often get that urge
To fall asleep, a sleep so deep that
No-one notices me

Don't want anyone to know my name
Don't want to get a fax
Don't want to meet the Royal Family
Just 'cause I've paid my tax

Don't wanna be seen or heard
Don't want to shout out loud
I want to be part of the herd
One of the crowd

Dressing individually doesn't impress me
I think that it's pathetic
Following fashion, I just like it
Don't I?

Don't wanna be seen or heard
Don't want to shout out loud
I want to be part of the herd
One of the crowd

One of the crowd
One of the crowd
Fishing
Fishing

I never fight, but every night
I think it's gonna be alright
I think I might think in spite of
Every thing

Don't wanna be seen or heard
Don't want to shout out loud
I want to be part of the herd
One of the crowd

One of the crowd
One of the crowd
One of the crowd
One of the crowd

One of the crowd
One of the crowd
Fishing
One of the crowd
Fishing

I'm curious what "espionage devices" they were selling on the street to citizens?

This should be investigated why the devices haven't been recovered and whom allowed the entire organization of 200 Israeli spies to leave without even a single charge?

Would the British handle this similarly?

US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation By Ben Fenton in Washington
Last Updated: 11:53PM GMT 06/03/2002

UP to 200 young Israelis, some of them former members of military intelligence units, have been arrested in America in the past year, a leaked government report disclosed yesterday.3

Some had used cover stories to gain access to sensitive government buildings and the homes of American officials. The report said the actions of some of the Israelis, most of whom had outstayed tourist visas, "may well be an organised intelligence-gathering activity".

None of the Israelis, about 140 of whom are believed to have been detained before the September 11 attacks, has been charged and most have been deported, according to the US government.

A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yaffa Ben-Ari, said it was "nonsense" that they had been spying on America. There has been no formal American allegation of spying by Israel although Tel Aviv has launched espionage operations against its principal ally in the past.

The leaked report was compiled by the Drug Enforcement Administration after some of its offices were allegedly targeted by Israelis posing as art students. "That these people are now travelling in the US selling art seems not to fit their background," the DEA report said.

On Oct 31, the FBI and Immigration and Naturalisation Service officers arrested about 60 young Israelis in San Diego, Kansas City, Cleveland, Houston and St Louis. All had been selling toys at kiosks in shopping centres across America and the FBI is reported to have been investigating this as a front operation for espionage activities.

Before that date, about 140 young Israelis had been detained, some for long periods, by the FBI and other federal agencies.

There is no evidence linking these arrests to the September 11 attacks although some intelligence commentators have pointed to allegations that Israel may have been shadowing Arab militants in America without sharing its knowledge with Washington.

The DEA report said most of the students questioned by American investigators acknowledged having served in units of the Israeli armed forces specialising in military intelligence, electronic signals interception or explosive ordnance.

It added that one person questioned was the son of an Israeli general, another had served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army and a third served in a Patriot missile unit.

Young Israelis are required to serve in the military and there is a long tradition that after completing their national service they take advantage of their freedom to go out and see the world.

In 1984, Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence officer, was sentenced to life in prison for spying for Israel.

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