POTUS Eruptions: Cruelty is “strength” ♦♦♦ Care is “weakness”

USA’s Upside down-talking dopes, ditto heads on the loose!

Reason, rationality, common sense, sanity turned on its head

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he dopes would have us believe that rich, nuclear-power-packing nations and their leaders’ aggression, rape and slaughter of helpless, unarmed, defenseless people and lands —   

stretching

• ♦ from Palestine to (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) Japan, Korea and Vietnam;

• ♦ from the Horn of Africa (Somalia) west and north to Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia and Libya;

• ♦ from Yugoslavia to Grenada;

• ♦ from Yemen to Syria and Lebanon;

• ♦ from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Americas’ Indian reservations and Central and Caribbean nations (Haiti, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua) to local streets, barrios, campuses and neighborhoods of the USA —

— this oppressive pattern of unending U.S. aggression constitutes “strength.”

But …

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eakness,” the dopes would have us believe, is manifest in individuals who (fearlessly) hold differences of opinion, who suffer with and reach out in true humanity to others.

• “Weakness” is manifest in leaders who open their minds and gates to difference, differences of opinion, peaceful advocacy.
• Human kindness is “anti-Semitic” and murder is “humanitarian.” 
• Evil is good and good is evil.

The question is: To whom should we listen and take seriously —

The entrenched old ditto-headed demonstrably duplicitous dunce?

OR

 The young imaginative uncommon tried-and-true true-blue do-gooder?

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ews sources reported U.S. President Donald Trump’s malicious lies, disinformation and misrepresentations

• The Hill August 15, 2019 published his social media eruption: “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!” [emphasis added]

The U.S. president maliciously defames the congresswomen and recklessly lies. He could not possibly know (or seriously care about) the inner workings of their minds.

The Hill explains:

“President Trump on Thursday said Israel should not allow two U.S. congresswomen with whom he has feuded to enter the country for an upcoming trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Trump tweeted that it would show ‘great weakness’ on Israel’s part if it allowed Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, to cross its border.” [emphasis added]

In another scandalous July lie the U.S. president is reported saying

“I don’t believe the four Congresswomen are capable of loving our Country. They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said.”

It is t his president who has much to answer for to the American people and the world. His time will come.

RT had reported in July

“In a departure from its travel ban on supporters of the pro-Palestinian movement…, Israel said it will allow BDS-supporting U.S. congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to enter the country.”

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, was quoted saying “Out of respect for Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to pro-BDS congresswomen.”

The congresswomen had been “scheduled to make an official visit to Israel and the West Bank in August, and there was uncertainty around whether they would be turned away at the airport due to the 2017 law Israel passed that bans anyone who ‘makes a public call for boycotting Israel’ or ‘any area under its control,’ in reference to the settlements built in the West Bank.” The ambassador presumably was addressing that concern.

RT reporting August 15-16, 2019

“After President Trump panned the initiative…, Israel… barred U.S. lawmakers Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting the country over their support for BDS, which was no secret.”

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely is quoted announcing on Thursday (August 15, 2019):“Israel has decided – we won’t enable the members of Congress to enter the country.… We won’t allow those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter Israel. In principle, this is a very justified decision.”

Israel’s backtracking comes just prior to the U.S. congresswomen’s planned trip.” Weeks earlier, both representatives had discussed the upcoming political visit to Israel. But the U.S. President’s and Israel’s eruptions caused them to cancel their trip. 

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here is no evidence whatsoever either in these women’s long-term record or immediate actions or words that would suggest in any way that they wished “harm” on Israel. 

These are lies that have been promulgated by U.S. and Israeli officials and their partners.

BDS News August 16, 2019

“Israel’s far-right government, with (U.S. President Donald) Trump’s collusion, has again put itself on par with apartheid South Africa in the past and with other rogue regimes in the present.

“As its decades-old regime of military occupation and apartheid is exposed to the world, and as the BDS movement for Palestinian rights continues to grow worldwide, Israel is desperately intensifying its McCarthyite war on BDS and on people of conscience who stand in solidarity with our pursuit of freedom, justice and equality.

“We salute Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and we call for escalating pressure on (the U.S.) Congress to implement the Leahy Law — which conditions U.S. military aid to other governments on their respect for human rights — by cutting US military aid to Israel.”

What is BDS?

“A vibrant global movement” composed of “unions, academic associations, churches and grassroots movements across the world … (standing) for freedom, justice and equality. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement (upholding) the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.”

“For nearly seventy years, Israel has denied Palestinians their fundamental rights and has refused to comply with international law.

“Israel maintains a regime of settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation over the Palestinian people. This is only possible because of international support. Governments fail to hold Israel to account, while corporations and institutions across the world help Israel to oppress Palestinians.

“Because those in power refuse to act to stop this injustice, Palestinian civil society has called for a global citizens’ response of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.”

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oycotts, Divestment and Sanctions

“BOYCOTTS involve withdrawing support from Israel’s apartheid regime; complicit Israeli sporting, cultural and academic institutions; and from all Israeli and international companies engaged in violations of Palestinian human rights.

“DIVESTMENT campaigns urge banks, local councils, churches, pension funds and universities to withdraw investments from the State of Israel and all Israeli and international companies that sustain Israeli apartheid.

“SANCTIONS campaigns pressure governments to fulfill their legal obligations to end Israeli apartheid, and not aid or assist its maintenance, by banning business with illegal Israeli settlements, ending military trade and free-trade agreements, as well as suspending Israel’s membership in international forums such as UN (United Nations) bodies and FIFA” (in French Fédération Internationale de Football Association, in English International Federation of Association Football)

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isregard carefully calculated hysterical eruptions.

Make considered choices, preferring the honorable to the dishonorable.

• Dig deeply.
• Look without blinking.
• Discover the credible, the authentic; and
• Choose truth, reality over the showman’s show, the preposterous, the patently narcissistic self-serving.

Sources

The Hill “Trump: Israel shouldn’t let Omar, Tlaib visit country” Tal Axelrod August 15, 2019

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/457538-trump-israel-would-show-great-weakness-if-it-allowed-omar-tlaib-to

RT “And now ‘apologize to Israel’: Trump in new rant on ‘weak, insecure’ Omar, Tlaib & co.” July 21, 2019 https://www.rt.com/usa/464698-trump-dems-israel-apology/

RT “Israel to make exception in allowing BDS-supporting Omar & Tlaib into the country” July 21, 2019, https://www.rt.com/news/464689-israel-omar-tlaib-bds/

PressTV “Trump defends Israel move to bar two US Congresswomen” August 16, 2019 https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/08/16/603659/USA-Trump-welcomes-Israeli-decision-to-ban-congresswomen

RT “Trump says jump, Netanyahu asks ‘how high?’ US lawmakers denied entry to Israel after WH pressure” August 15, (edited August 16) 2019 https://www.rt.com/news/466588-israel-bars-us-lawmakers/

BDS Website “BDS movement condemns Israel’s decision to prevent U.S. Congresswomen’s visit” By Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) August 16, 2019 https://bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-condemns-israels-decision-prevent-us-congresswomens-visit

https://bdsmovement.net/

https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds

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