In Israel, Ted Cruz blasts Palestinians and Obama administration

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Jerusalem Post

WASHINGTON – Visiting Israel, Sen. Ted Cruz placed blame Monday for the recent failure of peace talks squarely on Palestinians, and their refusal to renounce terror and to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

That, he said, is the “principal impediment to peace,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

He also was deeply critical of President Obama and his administration, asserting that his main approach in the region is “to criticize and harangue and pressure the Israeli government,” the Post reported.

He criticized the U.S. administration for pressuring Israel on the issue of settlements in the Palestinian territory. Those, Cruz said, are “a question for the government of Israel,” adding that it’s not America’s role “to try to impose a policy about where Israeli settlements are located and where they’re not.”

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/in-israel-ted-cruz-blasts-palestinians-and-obama-administration.html/

[Lobo27]

1. ...

Yeah, I'm sure Bibi wants real peace. I'm so certain of it.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Oh, Ted, you're misjudging the American Jewish voter

But please proceed.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Politics, stopping at water's edge. Unless you're a classless jackwagon

from Canada.

[Submariner]

4. Sounds like our Cuban-Canadian immigrant community in Texas

is looking to incite some anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rhetoric. How very patriotic of him.

[Voice for Peace]

5. Wow, he keeps getting slimier.

[TexasTowelie]

6. It will likely get worse...

...he goes to Ukraine later this week.

[Voice for Peace]

9. It's puzzling; he is so patently deluded, and creepy.

I don't think he has a big following, honestly.. he's not that sexy.
I don't think people are taking him seriously.. are they?
Maybe his dad, and a few American Springers. Are they?
dear dog i hope not

[pinto]

27. Oh no. What an embarassment he is.

Ah geez.

[DhhD]

32. So Cruz is supporting groups coming in from the East to take over and settle in Ukraine too?

What an idiot.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Has he been eating green eggs and ham again?

n/t

[fujiyama]

8. Remember when going abroad and criticizing the president was considered unpatriotic?

I remember hearing a lot of that from republicans 10 years ago.

I guess that doesn't apply to tools like Cruz. I really, really, despise this ass hole. Are a majority of Texans brain damaged or something? How could this guy ever be voted in to a state wide office? Then again, considering Rick Perry is the governor...

[dballance]

36. Don't forget rep Louie Gomert!

There's a ton of stupid representing TX in government. Cruz is a prime example.

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Way too many bananas

in his bowl of crazios! Although, it would be kind of entertaining to lock him in a room with Gohmert and listen in on their conversation . . .

[trusty elf]

17. ........

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[SoapBox]

11. Ughhhhhhh....what an embarrassment!

Freak show.

[bluestateguy]

12. Badmouthing the Commander in Chief in a time of war on foreign soil

If Teddy Cruz doesn't like the way we do things in America then he should go back to Canada.

[SereneG]

31. Used!

I'm sorry BlueStateguy but in Canada we don't take back used defective goods after 30 days!! You guys are stuck with him!!!

[NastyRiffraff]

35. Duzy!

Good one, SereneG!

[TexasTowelie]

38. LOL!

Welcome to DU, I think that I"m going to enjoy reading your posts.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Cruz' Ground Zero for the Apocalypse.

I imagine he's salivating at it.

[Sgent]

14. Isn't this what the Dixie Chicks were shunned for?

criticizing the President while overseas?

[DeSwiss]

15. The real tragedy here is......

...that anyone and I mean anyone, knows who this bozo is.

- Period.

''I think Rob Ford is awesome. He finally put to bed the notion that humans are capable of choosing their own leaders. I'm prepared to allow a mathematical algorithm to select leaders at random from the phone book now. If you look at the past 100 years (including the past 5) it cannot be any worse than what we have selected for ourselves.''

~PaleoEmoProg

[yuiyoshida]

16. I am really surprised Cruz could find Israel.

Shouldn't he be in Australia or some place? I would almost expect that.

[Stryst]

18. I'm an Evergreen State college alum

And I remember Rachel Corrie. If Israel want's the Palestinians to renounce terror, then maybe they shouldn't crush peaceful protesters under armored bulldozers.

[Baconeater]

23. No Fan of Cruz

But c'mon, Rachel Corrie? First off, since I was 3, I was taught to say away from heavy equipment because it is dangerous. Secondly, it wasn't Israel who killed her, but a bulldozer operator, and it was ruled an accident.
Corrie might not have been for terrorism, but she was helping terrorists while she was in Israel.
The fact this was over 10 years ago, and some people still bring this up to state Israel doesn't want peace is completely silly. If Israel didn't want peace, surely, you could find better examples, and many examples.
The reason it is OK for Obama to blame Israel on this is because the Palestinians are the ones acting like babies here, and you need to appease the babies by blaming the "big bad wolf." This keeps peace talks alive.
Israel should not be adding to their settlements, but this conflict isn't about the settlements. There were no settlements in 1967 and the Arabs were still trying to push the Jews in the sea back then. The settlements are a smokescreen, but hopefully they can morph into the main negotiation tool that creates a peaceful two state solution. Not holding my breath though.

[cpwm17]

25. What a load of crap (nt)

[Baconeater]

26. Great rebuttal

You win.

[dballance]

37. Have to agree with you.

Notice baconeater is a very low post-count person. Probably found some objectionable things in a google search and signed up just to comment on them.

[Stryst]

39. You are lacking some basic facts about the story

You stay away from bulldozers when they're doing work; when they're preparing to crush a pharmacists home you do what you have to do to stop it.

it wasn't Israel who killed her, but a bulldozer operator

A bulldozer operator who was a contractor for the Isreal army.

The "accident ruling" was absolute BS. I'll quote the wikipedia page (sorry for that) because it's fairly consise:

"The exact nature of her death and the culpability of the bulldozer operator are disputed, with eyewitnesses saying that the Israeli soldier operating the bulldozer deliberately ran over Corrie, and the Israeli government saying that it was an accident since the bulldozer operator could not see her."

She was wearing a day glow orange jacket and screaming at him through a megaphone. While waving her arms, and at one point standing on top of a pile of rubble so that she could look the operator directly in the eye.

And while you claim that she was "helping terrorists", she was working with the ISM (international solidarity movement). They have had individuals affiliated with them that have committed violent acts, but the ISM itself denounces violence.

[Baconeater]

41. The Wiki Article

Has many pluses and minuses when it comes to both sides:

The IDF produced a video about Corrie's death that includes footage taken from inside the cockpit of a D9. The video makes a "credible case", wrote Joshua Hammer in Mother Jones, that "the operators, peering out through narrow, double-glazed, bulletproof windows, their view obscured behind pistons and the giant scooper, might not have seen Corrie kneeling in front of them".[10] Corrie's father, Craig Corrie has said "I know there's stuff you can't see out of the double glass windows." But he has denied that as a valid excuse for the death of his daughter, saying "you're responsible for knowing what's in front of your blade." Based on his experience of overseeing work with bulldozers similar to the D9 while serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam he said: "It's a no brainer that this was gross negligence", adding "they had three months to figure out how to deal with the activists that were there."[45] Eye witness Tom Dale commenting on the 2012 verdict said: "Whatever one thinks about the visibility from a D9 bulldozer, it is inconceivable that at some point the driver did not see her, given the distance from which he approached, while she stood, unmoving, in front of it. As I told the court, just before she was crushed, Rachel briefly stood on top of the rolling mound of earth which had gathered in front of the bulldozer: her head was above the level of the blade, and just a few meters from the driver."[46]

Still, you don't stand in the way of a bulldozer. You have to be a complete idiot to do that or not care about your life.

Here is an actual summary of the findings http://elderofziyon.blogspot.ca/2012/08/summary-of-verdict-in-corrie-case.html#.U4ZB6IWFm5I

[bearssoapbox]

19. Shut up you asshole hypocrite.

You're an embarrassment to America.

"He criticized the U.S. administration for pressuring Israel on the issue of settlements in the Palestinian territory. Those, Cruz said, are “a question for the government of Israel,” adding that it’s not America’s role “to try to impose a policy about where Israeli settlements are located and where they’re not.”

Does he even hear what comes out of that hole in his head?

"adding that it’s not America’s role"

“to try to impose a policy about where Israeli settlements are located and where they’re not.”

Right you jackhole. Because we have NEVER tried to "impose a policy" anywhere or on anyone in the world.

[TRoN33]

20. Pure biased politics.

Cruz just want to douse more gas into already firestorm and hoping it would lead him all the way to the Oval Office.

[DhhD]

33. To the Oval Office and the 4th Crusade and to the Left Hand of God. (Christ is on the Right Hand.)

New meaning to Left and Right, with God in the Center.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Ted Cruz is a real pursuer of peace - NOT

'He criticized the U.S. administration for pressuring Israel on the issue of settlements in the Palestinian territory. Those, Cruz said, are “a question for the government of Israel,” adding that it’s not America’s role “to try to impose a policy about where Israeli settlements are located and where they’re not.”'


So I assume that he also criticized the Bush administration for invading Iraq, and added that it wasn't America's role to try to impose policies about how other countries should be run?

Sometimes I think that if Obama said that the sun rose in the east, some Republican would pop up and insist that it rose in the west!

[alfredo]

24. Cruz wants nothing less than a genocide against all Muslims.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

22. First black president. Nut jobs come out of the woodwork. Are any of us...

really surprised?

[hue]

28. Isn't there a crazy-o-meter that designates censorability?

[tavernier]

29. Reeks of desperation.

Next speech scheduled is at the chocolate plant to unite all the m & m's against Michelle Obama's school food program.

[DhhD]

34. Cruz- standing against and voting for the destruction of Veterans and the health of our children.

It is a war against the helpless, the low income, and Women. It is a war against Michelle Obama for serving the same good food to all school children as the Conservative Private Schools serves to their children.

Cruz's Dominionism Church teachings are to take from the countryside to give to the wealthy.

[Stellar]

30. Now they will see just what kind of

crackpots the President has to put up with. Or perhaps they may even feel there are very few (if any) people in the Republic0n party with common sense left in this country at the least.

[BlueStater]

40. Isn't this the sort of thing Pukes used to look down on?

Attacking the President while on foreign soil? My, how times have changed.

[truthisfreedom]

42. Barf. Everyone is disgusted by this behavior.

You don't go overseas to blast your President. Fucking coward.

[kelliekat44]

43. I trust that most Israelis to regard Cruz for what he is... nt