Obama is blowing his legacy over Israel nbc

[ducks]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/obama-israel-settlements-un-legacy-commentary.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadlin e%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=104191328&yptr=yahoo

[Adam Lambert]

lol nobody is even going to remember this in four years you dumb faggot

[SpursforSix]

lol nobody is even going to remember this in four years you dumb faggot

This is a cool schtick. So edgy. So in your face. Keep up the good work.

[Adam Lambert]

This is a cool schtick. So edgy. So in your face. Keep up the good work.

thanks buddy, hey speaking of good comedy, when are you going to do another one of those hilarious review threads that everyone loves so much?

[SpursforSix]

thanks buddy, hey speaking of good comedy, when are you going to do another one of those hilarious review threads that everyone loves so much?

Pretty soon I'm sure.

[DMX7]

Nobody will remember this in four months

[Gummi Clutch]

Good for him.

[Adam Lambert]

Pretty soon I'm sure.

cool!
here are some suggestions for topics that people will find really funny
- ted 2
- fast and furious
- rocky balboa
- mike and molly
- bagel bites

[SpursforSix]

cool!
here are some suggestions for topics that people will find really funny
- ted 2
- fast and furious
- rocky balboa
- mike and molly
- bagel bites

Shit. I've only seen Fast and Furious and had Bagle Bites.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Shit. I've only seen Fast and Furious and had Bagle Bites.

Beagle Bites >>> Bagle Bites

[Winehole23]

board conservatives still playing D, Obama is still president for three weeks.

[Winehole23]

The last Republican president, George W. Bush, allowed six similar resolutions to pass (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/opinion/international/israels-unsung-protector-obama.html?_r=0). This included, for example, a 2004 resolution (http://www.un.org/press/en/2004/sc8098.doc.htm) calling on Israel to stop demolishing the homes of Palestinian civilians. Israel recently revived (http://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-razes-home-of-jerusalem-car-attack-suspect-1416397982) this internationally condemned practice, but under Obama it has not received a Security Council rebuke.


George H.W. Bush allowed through nine resolutions (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/opinion/international/israels-unsung-protector-obama.html?_r=0) critical of Israel. Unlike with Obama, the elder Bush not only allowed some of these resolutions to pass, but he also supported them. For example, Security Council Resolution 681 (http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f16618.html), passed in 1990, criticized Israel for engaging in deportations of Palestinian civilians from the Occupied Territories and called on the Israeli government to respect international law.


During the Reagan administration, 21 Security Council resolutions critical (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/opinion/international/israels-unsung-protector-obama.html) of Israeli government actions passed. This includes Resolution 573 (http://palestineun.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SC-573-1985.pdf), which condemned an Israeli attack in Tunisia.https://theintercept.com/2016/12/30/barack-obama-wasnt-nearly-as-tough-on-israel-as-republican-presidents/

[Winehole23]

Republican administrations, by contrast, actively sought to use aid as leverage to force Israel to make concessions for peace. For example, President George H.W. Bush demanded (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0111/US-says-no-plan-to-cut-Israel-loan-guarantees-but-it-s-been-tried-before) that Israel freeze expansion of settlements in exchange for a $10 billion loan guarantee to help resettle Soviet Jews in the country. Bush did not release this guarantee until Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to the settlement freeze in July 1992.


The Obama administration never utilized such leverage against Netanyahu.


President Reagan responded firmly against Israel after witnessing the carnage brought on by its bombing of Lebanon. In July 1982, Reagan halted (http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/19/President-Reagan-Monday-halted-US-shipments-of-cluster-bomb-type/5117395899200/) the transfer of cluster munitions to Israel over concerns the weapons were causing too many civilian casualties.


The same year, he called Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and warned him about the U.S. view of the Israel-Lebanon war. “Menachem, this is a holocaust,” he told him (https://books.google.com/books?id=vOLqBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT29&dq=reagan+holocaust+israel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbjOCs_pnRAhXCSyYKHSiQAWwQ6AEIHDAA#v=on epage&q=reagan%20holocaust%20israel&f=false).