Tzipi Hotovely waving an Israeli flag with the Dome of the Rock in the background, in a 2014 promotion
House Resolution 246 (H.Res.246) overwhelmingly passed in the House last month, with just 17 members voting against it. The resolution condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, identifying it as a roadblock in the quest for a two-state solution. "We would like to make our position clear that the establishment of a Palestinian state would be far more dangerous to Israel than BDS," the letter reads. Signatories include Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (United Right), Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud), and MK Gideon Sa'ar (Likud).
The letter is addressed to the cosponsors of the bill-Rep. Brad Schneider (D-CO) , Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), all of whom are staunchly pro-Israel. According to The Jerusalem Post, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan helped develop the letter. Dagan has even criticized The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for promoting a two-state solution. "Unfortunately, in the last few years, AIPAC is independently advancing the two-state solution," he told the paper, "AIPAC portrays the two-state concept as an Israeli interest to elected officials in America and as the official position of the Israeli government, even though this is untrue. The two-state concept is not the policy of the current government coalition, nor is it stated as policy in the agreements between the coalition partners. Furthermore, this is not the policy of the Trump administration, which has even removed it from the National Security Strategic Report."
AIPAC lobbied for the House to pass H.Res.246 and referred to it as a "top priority" on their website. "It's ironic that Israeli right-wingers are blaming AIPAC for pro-two state solution language in the recently passed congressional resolution opposing the Global BDS Movement," tweeted J Street's Dylan Williams, "because AIPAC tried really hard to strip out that language before introduction (and obviously failed)."
The letter also asserts that the resolution impedes the objectives of the Trump administration. "Pressure to establish a Palestinian state contradicts President Trump's position, which he has stated many times — that the solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict shall be determined by the parties," it reads. It declares that a Palestinian state would "undoubtedly be a dysfunctional terrorist state."
Comment: Funny - Israel is already a dysfunctional terrorist state.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote against the resolution. On Twitter, he shared the aforementioned Jerusalem Post article and wrote, "I took some heat for being the only Republican to vote NAY on this bill. I stand by my vote. 21 members of the Israeli Knesset had an issue with this bill, because they read it too."
Comment: Only one Republican voted against the resolution - for the wrong reason.
When asked about the letter by Jewish Insider, a spokesperson for Rep. Zeldin said, "The Congressman supports a strong U.S.-Israel partnership. The text of the resolution as it relates to negotiated peace on the ground in and around Israel is entirely consistent with longstanding policy. That part of the resolution was not new."
"Whatever one's views on BDS, the idea that it's more deserving of censure than an Israeli occupation whose intended purpose is to prevent a [two-state solution] is obviously absurd," tweeted Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss in response to the letter, "But that's Congress for you. In closing, anti-BDS hysteria is a con and Democrats should stop being suckers."
To refresh you it goes like this:
Moses was a murderer. He ran away to escape a death sentence, some nice people found him and saved him, he married one of them eventually. He asked "can I bring back my people who are all oppressed slaves?" The people who saved him said yes.
So he went back, wrought destruction upon the Egyptians, murdered all of their firstborn in a fit of terrorism, and finally had the pharoah let them leave. Then the Egyptians chased them to kill them?
No, the heebs had to have stolen much precious treasure from the nation of Egypt. How else did a large group of destitute slaves who barely were able to keep themselves fed have enough gold to fashion golden a golden calf, the arc of the covenant, and all of their other treasures. How else did they have the fine dyed linens, and badger skins. (badgers dont even live in the sinai desert, and hides of domesticated animals were very important to the egyptians as a comodity), besides them robbing an egyptian depot of expensive goods on their way out (another good question is why did the bible never mention the israelites eating the flesh of the badgers from all of the badgers they killed to make the tabernacle tent.?)
Anyways after hanging around in the desert for a long time, they finally found their way to the land of the Midianites, the people who saved Moses.
After settling down, they decided to raise a 12,000 man army and murder all of their neighbors who accepted them into their lives.
They stole all their treasures, animals, land, and captured all the children. The high priests made the soldiers kill all the little boys and gifted them the virgin little girls as concubines.
So when the Israelis say they have a biblical claim to the land they are really recognizing that they conquered their land through lying, cheating, stealing, and genocide. But don't worry, they are god's chosen ones.
What a thing to be proud of being the only people on earth worthy of gods command to kill anyone they think threaten their expanding nation.
This is all in the Torah and Bible. I am just telling the story.
Look it up, it is all there, in exodus and numbers.