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Netanyahu missing Mandela
memorial for cost reasons: Report
Agence France-Presse ^
| 12/8/13
| Staff
Posted on 12/08/2013 8:04:31 PM PST by Nachum
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided not to attend a memorial service for Nelson Mandela this week because it is too expensive to travel to South Africa, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Netanyahu had notified the South African authorities that he would fly in but cancelled his plans at the last minute due to the costs involved -- around 7.0 million shekels ($2 million) for his transport and security alone, pubic radio and the Haaretz daily reported. "The decision was made in light of the high transportation costs resulting from the short notice of the trip and the security required for the prime minister
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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mandela; memorial; missing; netanyahu
Netanyahu is pulling an "Obama"
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:04:31 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Maybe he’s going to send the IAF to bomb the funeral?
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:05:49 PM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Evil must be punished.)
To: Nachum
you couldn’t pay me to go there
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:06:43 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Nachum
Obama would never do anything that would actually save the taxpayers money.
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:06:54 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Nachum
Well, Mandela made no secret of backing the Palestinian terrorists against Israel.
Netanyahu knows he’d offend a ton of people if he said so. But I’m glad he’s not going.
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:08:02 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Nachum
Can you blame him? He would be less popular than a black man at a KKK convention. Remember? Israel, with friends too few and far between did what he had to do, found a willing friend to befriend and visa versa. South Africa, having incarcerated Mandela would not, today, be a welcome place for Netanyahu. When you talk cost, you’ve got to include the security considrations for Netanyahu which would be considerable.
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:10:20 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Nachum
shoulda told them "I have to wash my hair, or something..." the POS hated Israel, f-em
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:20:25 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Chode
shoulda told them "I have to wash my hair, or something..." the POS hated Israel, f-em
Mandela supported Israel's right to exist. He also thought the Palestinians and other Arab terrorist groups were nuts because they were intransigent on this issue. Stop being so reactionary that you invent "facts" to support what you think ought to exist. Doing that you come full circle and join the fantasy world view of the Left.
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:30:56 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Nachum
He knows Mandela supported the people who deny Israel’s right to exist?
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:32:54 PM PST
by
Viennacon
To: Chode
Boon: “Washing her hair?”
Otter: “No, dead mother.”
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:33:48 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: aruanan
he also thought and said Israel should give back ALL the "occupied territories"
he might not of SAID he hated Israel, but he sure wasn't their friend...
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:46:02 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: dfwgator
LOL!
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:47:01 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: dfwgator
“I have to change air in my bicycle’s tires”
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posted on
12/08/2013 8:51:48 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Nachum
How much is the US boondoggle going to cost?
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posted on
12/08/2013 10:19:02 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Nachum
From the posted release: “...for his transport and security alone, pubic radio and the Haaretz daily reported.”
“pubic radio”? Twelve posts and no one mentions this error? You’re slipping.
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posted on
12/08/2013 10:23:17 PM PST
by
chulaivn66
(Semper Fidelis)
To: Nachum
You couldn’t pay me 7.0 million shekels ($2 million) to attend.
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posted on
12/09/2013 2:02:18 AM PST
by
jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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