Netanyahu: Let Arabs say the truth out loud

ynet ^ | 11/29/2010 | Attila Somfalvi

[cliff630]

Yes, I remember that rescue. Wasn't that in
Uganda whose ruler was the despicable Idi Amin?
The date was 7/4/1976, our bicentennial.

[Riley]

Yep. I didn’t remember the exact date, but I remember it happening then.

There was a halfway decent TV movie made about it. Yaphet Kotto played Amin.

[zeugma]

Sorry, but only idiots think that gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.

[Mariner]

I'm starting to think Wikileaks did the world, and the USA a favor.

China ready to abandon NK. Arab leaders begging for a military solution to Iran.

And a US President, either unwilling or unable to act.

This is the ultimate humiliation for the the bulwark of Western Civilization and the sole stabilizing force in the world.

Only Obama and Carter have been totally inept to such opportunity in our entire history.

[goat granny]

The made for TV movie of it was excellent......Raid on Entebee

[AFreeBird]

Oh get real. Every country, in one way or another, spies on every other; Friend and foe alike.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

[Jewbacca]

Given your hatred of Jewish, you really should change your name, given that William Shatner is both a proud Jew and a proud Zionist.

Maybe to Sulu, as you both strike me as a little queer.

[Ditto]

That’s an irony from a man who leads a government which has repeatedly committed espionage in the U.S. (its alleged “friend.”)

LOL. In international relations, there is no such thing as a 'friend.' There can be mutual interests and objectives, but friendship has absolutely nothing to do with it.

[Captain Kirk]

LOL. In international relations, there is no such thing as a 'friend.' There can be mutual interests and objectives, but friendship has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Agreed. That would mean, of course, that those folks who say that Israel is "our only friend in the Middle East," "our best freind" or "loyal and reliable ally" are either fools or liars. It also means that if you are regular reader of the "pray for Israel" threads on this site you'll have a lot of opportunities to laugh out loud!

[Ditto]

That would mean, of course, that those folks who say that Israel is "our only friend in the Middle East," "our best freind" or "loyal and reliable ally" are either fools or liars. It also means that if you are regular reader of the "pray for Israel" threads on this site you'll have a lot of opportunities to laugh out loud!

Friend is the wrong word and wrong sentiment. Our governmental relationship with Israel, or any other ally nation is not based on friendship, which can only exist between individuals, not nations.

"Ally" is the proper term because our two nations have (or at least had until this current administration) common 'allied' interests and objectives.

No, I would not laugh at people who pray for Israel. I wish them well and respect them for their courage, skill and strength in maintaining a functioning Western democracy and the only truly civilized presence an area of the world dominated by medieval savages. In that sense, I pray for them as well.

[sheik yerbouty]

Captain, Starfleet wants you to return to the head of the Enterprise to retrieve your captain’s logs..

[Captain Kirk]

Captain, Starfleet wants you to return to the head of the Enterprise to retrieve your captain’s logs..

Wow, what a wry and original wit you have!!! Starfleet!? ROFL! Brilliant. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever put me in my place so effectively!

[sheik yerbouty]

I am so glad you approve. Contemplate that on your voyage to Uranus..

[cliff630]

Thanks for passing on the movie. As I remember
the leader (Bibi's brother) was shot since he was
the last to board the aircraft taking all the hostages.
Just as a ship Captain would behave.
The story didn't get much coverage here since the 4th
was our great 200th Holiday. As far as I know this
rescue was the only one ever from an enemy country.

As an aside: Do you remember that Kennedy had his
chapaquidick(sp?) episode during a special event
===the Armstrong moon landing.

if that had been on any other day, he would have really
been cooked.

Strange, isn't it that such major "Breaking News" happen
to compete on some other major event?

[goat granny]

yes Bibi's brother was the only Israeli killed...they killed all the hostage takers....

[Riley]

I was about eight when I watched the Moon landing. TV was strongly discouraged in our household at the time, and was generally reserved for special occasions like this and Creature Features with Bob Wilkins on Saturday nights. :-)

I remember standing in my Dad’s and Stepmother’s room in San Anselmo, CA on that day, watching Neil Armstrong on a grainy little tiny back and white TV with rabbit ears.

Needless to say, I had no idea who Ted Kennedy was at the time. Some irrelevant far-away bigshot who got in an auto accident to me at the time.

[Captain Kirk]

I am so glad you approve. Contemplate that on your voyage to Uranus..

Uranus???!!! ROFL. Another original and incisive zinger. Oscar Wilde move over. Sheik Yerbouty is in town! Keep 'em coming.

[bvw]

Love that coincidence. One man makes a giant step for all mankind. One man makes a step for himself, and takes all mankind one step closer into hell.

[bvw]

On the Fourth of July:

• 1054 The supernova that formed the Crab Nebula observed
• 1654 Trois-Rivières, Quebec founded.
• 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, signed. Iriquois ceed lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the colonies.
• 1754 Washington withdraws from Fort Necessity surrendering it to the French.
• 1776 Official Declaration of Independence
• 1803 Louisiana Purchase announced
• 1817 Erie Canal construction begins
• 1826 Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
• 1863 Vicksburg surrenders to Grant, Lee withdraws from Gettysburg
• 1894 Republic of Hawaii declared after coup against Queen
• 1918 Bolsheviks brutally slay the Tsar and his family
• 1939 Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" speech
• 1976 Entebbe Raid
• 1997 US Pathfinder robot lands on Mars and begins it's very successful mission
• 2002 Jihad-connected Egyptian-born immigrant kills two at El Al ticket counter in LAX