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U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF units operating in West Bank and Gaza
Haaretz ^ | 8/15/11 | Barak Ravid

Posted on 08/15/2011 9:47:18 PM PDT by Nachum

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Leahy, a Democrat and senior member of the U.S. Senate, wants assistance withheld from the Israel Navy's Shayetet 13 unit, the undercover Duvdevan unit and the Israel Air Force's Shaldag unit. (Snip) According to a senior Israeli official in Jerusalem, Leahy began promoting the legislation in recent months after he was approached by voters in his home state of Vermont.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; antisemitism; cut; dnc4murderers; dnc4terrorists; dncantisemitism; dncvsisrael; israel; leahyantisemitism; ronpaul; seeks; senator

1 posted on 08/15/2011 9:47:28 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Why doesn’t ‘Leaky’ just blow their security the way he does with American units?


2 posted on 08/15/2011 9:49:51 PM PDT by tanuki (O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
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To: tanuki

Leaky needs to read the book “Term Limits” by Vince Flynn.


3 posted on 08/15/2011 9:57:28 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Nachum

Leaky Leahy finally comes out of the closet, as well as revealing the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian lobby in his state.

Stupidity and subversion go hand and hand.


4 posted on 08/15/2011 9:57:41 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Old bullet-head strikes again.


5 posted on 08/15/2011 10:00:15 PM PDT by pankot
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To: Nachum

When is this old fart gonna do us all a favor and just drop dead?


6 posted on 08/15/2011 10:25:38 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126090/posts


7 posted on 08/15/2011 10:25:55 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Soothesayer9

So we continue aid to the PA, but cut it to Israel. I guess that shows where this administration stands on things.


8 posted on 08/15/2011 10:34:21 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: faucetman

This guy is just another drunkard pig.


9 posted on 08/16/2011 3:07:48 AM PDT by jmax
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To: Oldexpat
So we continue aid to the PA, but cut it to Israel. I guess that shows where this administration stands on things.

Well, money is tight, and we can't afford to support both the terrorists and the good guys. Surely you didn't expect Obama to abandon his people?

10 posted on 08/16/2011 3:32:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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11 posted on 08/16/2011 5:18:52 AM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: Nachum

Leaky is no friend to America.No doubt he favors the Palastinian government of Jerusalem.


12 posted on 08/16/2011 5:41:48 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Nachum

I wonder who were the voters that approached him?

Any koranimals?


13 posted on 08/16/2011 6:47:49 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Nachum

That makes his constituents filthy islamists too.


14 posted on 08/16/2011 7:14:20 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Soothesayer9

Why don’t you post this more relevant statistic instead:

“Within the last hour, the first exit poll of 817 Americans in Israel, who attended U.S. election voting events in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to vote by absentee ballot, has been released.

A startling 76 percent of those polled said that they had voted for John McCain.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/media-blog/31988/first-exit-poll-actual-american-votes-israel-shows-big-mccain-win/tom-gross

The reverse of the US.


15 posted on 08/16/2011 8:20:08 AM PDT by dervish (out of Afghanistan NOW)
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To: dervish

“Why don’t you post this more relevant statistic instead:

“Within the last hour, the first exit poll of 817 Americans in Israel, who attended U.S. election voting events in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to vote by absentee ballot, has been released.

A startling 76 percent of those polled said that they had voted for John McCain.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/media-blog/31988/first-exit-poll-actual-american-votes-israel-shows-big-mccain-win/tom-gross

The reverse of the US.”

If the Israeli media had done its homework on Obama’s background and mentors from childhood and throughout his life, the number in Israel for McCain would have been even higher.


16 posted on 08/16/2011 3:02:08 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Thanks Nachum.
Patrick Leahy [D-Vt] is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip... the Israel Navy's Shayetet 13 unit, the undercover Duvdevan unit and the Israel Air Force's Shaldag unit... Leahy began promoting the legislation in recent months after he was approached by voters in his home state of Vermont.
They were in a car with a bumper sticker, "I'm a Jihadist, and I Vote".


17 posted on 08/16/2011 5:33:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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