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Ambassador of Israel to US says Seattle's Kshama Sawant will have to retract statements
MyNorthwest ^ | 8/7/14 | Stephanie Klein

Posted on 08/08/2014 9:02:43 AM PDT by Baynative

Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant drafted a letter this week calling for an immediate end to all U.S. government military aid for Israel.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon; US: Washington; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: demagogue; israel; jerusalem; judeophobe; judeophobia; kshamasawant; letshavejerusalem; oregon; portland; seattle; socialist; waronterror; washington
[Ambassador] "Rantz pressed Sawant to acknowledge Hamas as a terrorist organization, but the councilmember refused to concede. Sawant also said she doesn't necessarily believe Hamas is storing weapons in hospitals or schools."


1 posted on 08/08/2014 9:02:43 AM PDT by Baynative
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To: Just Lori; Libertina; Publius; PROCON; Lexinom; horatio; freebird5850; Horatio Gates; Ramius; ...
WA Ping

Not much more you can say about the City of Seattle and the voters there.

2 posted on 08/08/2014 9:03:50 AM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: Baynative

Why Lefitsts like her seem to expend even more energy trying to destroy Israel than they do attempting to create Socialist Nirvana here at home is a mystery.


3 posted on 08/08/2014 9:10:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Baynative

So, Sawant is a a muslim?


4 posted on 08/08/2014 9:20:58 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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To: dragonblustar

The modern “socialist” is anyone who hates freedom; esp. the pieceful religion.


5 posted on 08/08/2014 9:53:00 AM PDT by veracious
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To: Baynative

On another web site, we were discussing Obama’s reluctant bombing of two ISIS location and I wondered if there was any connection between ISIS and Hamas.

Apparently, I am not the only person considering such a connection, but it doesn’t appear to be a connect with Hamas as much as a connection to Gaza. There is some evidence that ISIS has pushed Hamas aside and taken over the battle against in Israel in Gaza.


6 posted on 08/08/2014 12:14:53 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Baynative

Why even dignify what she said with a response?

Even if she does apologize, she won’t mean it, anyway, so what’s the point?


7 posted on 08/08/2014 12:16:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Eva
I wondered if there was any connection between ISIS and Hamas.

The common thread is Moon God worship.

8 posted on 08/08/2014 12:32:46 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

I don’t think that religion has much to do with the ISIS agenda, except as a motivating factor. ISIS is now the driving force behind the Islamic Caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood is standing back and letting it go, biding time, hoping that in the end, the Brotherhood can step in as the peace keeping, uniting force.


9 posted on 08/08/2014 1:08:06 PM PDT by Eva
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To: dragonblustar
She is from India, but not Muslim, as far as I know.

That photo, where she is wearing a head scarf, looks like a still from a Somali TV station that is broadcast here in Seattle on one of our free education channels.

We have a large group of Somali immigrants here, large enough to actually have a “Somali Town” in Seattle.

I don't know if the Somali station is located in Seattle or not.

Kshama Sawant is 100% radical Left on EVERY political issue.

I have not seen someone like this in public office since the 1960’s and 1970’s.

10 posted on 08/08/2014 2:13:55 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Baynative

Sounds like a Democrat, can’t accept contrary facts that don’t jive with their beliefs.


11 posted on 08/08/2014 5:39:44 PM PDT by dila813
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Thanks Baynative.
[Ambassador] "Rantz pressed Sawant to acknowledge Hamas as a terrorist organization, but the councilmember refused to concede. Sawant also said she doesn't necessarily believe Hamas is storing weapons in hospitals or schools."

12 posted on 08/08/2014 8:40:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

This idiot-savant was elected by idiots.


13 posted on 08/08/2014 9:02:23 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: zeestephen

they eat that stuff up in UDist, Fremont and Ballard. no same reasonable politician could hope to be elected in any of those neighborhoods.

BTW, I’m not sure what “aid” she is referring to. I wasn’t aware we gave stuff to Israel. We do have joint development
on military programs. But those are business arrangements not “aid”.


14 posted on 08/09/2014 5:30:32 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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I’m not up to date on current aid to Israel.

In the past, Israel was the number one recipient of USA aid, almost entirely military aid, going back many decades.

I have always supported that aid.

Israel is a reliable friend, and she lives in a very dangerous and strategically important neighborhood.

Egypt, going back almost 40 years, used to consistently be the number two recipient.

From memory, the USA-Israel-Egypt aid arrangement was put in place after Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai and return it to Egypt.


15 posted on 08/09/2014 6:53:14 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Eva

What I don’t think many people are understanding is if ISIS continues this violent rise...many of the smaller terrorist groups will fall in line with them.


16 posted on 08/09/2014 6:56:15 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: EBH

I read an article yesterday that said that young jihadis are leaving their smaller militias to go fight with ISIS. This is it, this is the battle for the Islamic caliphate that the Muslim Brotherhood convinced Obama would be the answer to peace in the Middle East. The Brotherhood tried to put a good face on it, a moderate face, but moderation didn’t work.

This is what Assad was fighting. There are no white hats among the Islamists.


17 posted on 08/10/2014 9:17:07 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva

This is the foolishness of our government. Obama is amongst them, like his adviser Jarret. What is worse is the Congress is literally blind. This blindness is of a spiritual nature. We are standing as witness to prophecy, I pray to stand with God.


18 posted on 08/10/2014 11:21:52 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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