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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
@ Michael S:
Again this ONCE.
The story of Nero burning Roman “Candles” is seriously doubted by all major historians. The Roman persecution of Christians itself is also doubted, certainly as to it’s intensity. The source is only Tacitus, who was about 8-10 years old when Nero died, and also was writing over 40 years later, when Trajan ruled, a completely different dynasty/..
There could have been no more than 50-100 Christians in Rome then if there were any at all. They weren’t even called Christians until some time after the Bar Kocheba War, ending in135-6, maybe not until long after- assuming that early Christian writings are all suspect. and anachronistic, as has been shown many times. .,
Remember this was supposed to have happened in about 65-66. Since most (or all) of Paul’s Letters have been found to be forgeries, that he was even in Rome visiting Christians is seriously in doubt. That a person named Paul ever existed is in serious doubt. What is NOT in doubt is, that even if he did exist, he was NOT A ROMAN CITIZEN but was a liar. like many of the early Christian “historians”.. I have written exhaustively on the almost impoasibility of acquiring Roman Citizenship in past posts, and it’s becoming null at the death of the emperor, and not neccessarily renewed by the successor..
And yes, your Roman history is wonky. (much like Christian”history”) Rome was pillaged and partially destroyed shortly after 400, by Alaric and his Visigoth hordes.. I recall that from school history even. It finally collapsed permanently within the next 50 years, leaving only the former Eastern Roman Empire intact in Constantinople, formerly and subsequently named Byzantium.. It became the Byzantine Empire.
Sorry……!!
@ Edgar G.:
Thanks, Edgar. It’s been over 40 years since I studied Roman History. I was about 39 then, still wet behind the ears. Obviously, you don’t consider burning Christians as human torches to be a serious problem with Nero; a point on which we disagree. We do agree that Caligula was bonkers.
I very much doubt that Jared Kushner is a traitor! Whatever he is, it’s highly unlikely that he’d be a traitor or anything else of a very negative bent! Pres. Trump will likely know all about him and would not be likely to treating him a a son were he a traitor!
Sincerely,
Frances Weingaren
@ Edgar G.:
It does and your insights make sense. Thank you.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
If you are referring to the “sunset clauses”, I didn’t disregard them, I just included them in the Abraham Accord where they are placed. I don’t think they needed specific mention, being part of the larger whole. The YESHA Arabs regard them as irrelevant anyway, have no intention of carrying out any stipulations, they have never done so, unless it was to their benefit, then just ignored the quid pro quo. Always takers…never givers.
But, with them being there, Israel has a perfect legal right to sweep them aside because of YESHA Arab non acceptance. But I think Netanyahu wants to wait out the agreed time limit, to make everything legal, but is floating a YESHA “extension of Sovereignty” for election purposes. He likes to keep within legally allowable International agreements. And he has the far greater consideration of the “friendly” Embassy-in Jerusalem stream of Arab and Muslim states. They can see that the YESHA Arabs (in complete disarray) rejected and are ignoring the whole Agreement,, but it doesn’t interfere with their plans to normalise with Israel. This is far more important, and it pushes the so called “Palestinians” back further into a local trivialism by comparison.
If my post does not answer your questions, please spell them out for me. “Sunset clause” is a term I have never ever, used and may not be getting its correct meaning. Also, I’m getting old, which may be a hindrance to my understanding………????
@ Edgar G.:Though you didn’t answer the questions I posed, non-rhetorically.
@ Edgar G.:
I agree.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Tes, it was certan that Trump, with his astounding political results, would be theParty Guru.
Why do they ALWAYS use words for Trump like, “enraged”. I’m sure he wasn’t, that he just saw the flaw, and issued his statement to redirect contributions. Tycoons don’t make decisions whilst “enraged’. This shows how much the denigrating Trump language has seeped into everything.
As re Kushner, I also saw nothing wrong with his article. I believe that his “praise” of Biden,is really praise of Trump and his policies, and a subtle way of encouraging Biden to carry on with them, (possiblywith BIden coming to think that he, Biden originated them)…
Regarding thr AWOL(assuming I’m interpreting Ted correctly) I’m sure Kushner was doing things which were not anti-Trump. There were loads of people defending Trump and attacking the stolen results. But it didn’t take long before we all could see, that when the SC refused to hear anything about Election Fraud, that protests in other venues would go nowhere..At least, not in time to make any difference. So he likely diverged to do something else of importance.
The courts are prsently, slowly, begrudgingly, deciding that election rules were broken after all…. and are fatally slowly ruling in favour of the Repubs. But ALL acknowledge that it makes no difference to THIS election, may only make some difference to 2022, 2024. l
Which is why very early, I debunked the Simon Parkes-Charlie Ward obviously fraudulent fortune-telling cross-my-palm-with-silver drek….as DREK.
If Israel extends sovereignty to YESHA it will be only 54 years late, and then, today it will be only partial, when THEN in 1967 it would have been total.
Imagine, a Land of Israel swept clear of all Arabs. Even if Mudar DOES take over Jordan, this is not a part of his programme, He will take them into Jordan, but only if they want to go. Which means that we will have almost tha status quo. They have to be MADE go…either in these PC times, by inducements, or forgetting PC, threats of force. I believe that threats and a show of assembling a powerful force would be enough to make them scarper. Arabs are like that , thay won’t stand and fight, unless behind strongly fortified positions….and NOT when they can safely retreat to Jordan.
So we have to wait and see. Sorry to be so wde ranging, but one thing led to another, habit,.
@ Edgar G.:
Trump is so popular within the Republican party that he will determine Republican positions for some time to come, even out of office. He has gone from king to kingmaker.
@ Edgar G.:
Do you think Kushner’s omission of the sunset clauses was accidental? I also just read that the US is now refusing to support Saudi Arabia against the Houthis who have seized oil rich territory belonging to somebody else but the UN says they are on the edge of famine so Saudi Arabia is being pressured to make concessions (where have we heard that before.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/20/how-to-end-a-war-you-didnt-win-yemens-houthis-seek-saudi-concessions/ )
On the other hand, Epoch Times also viewed Kushner’s Oped positively. And there really is nothing wrong that I see in it, either, even if it might be somewhat naive in giving Biden the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, could he be trying to build a bridge for some sort of bipartisanship to some extent? He is President Trump’s chief strategist, after all – he also got him elected in 2016 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/?sh=306efae23af6-
and thinking outside the box is his speciality.
@ Ted Belman:
Thank you Ted for pointing out Jared AWOL, Eric fighting for his father. After Trump took heat for pardoning Jared’s father! Self-serving disloyalty. Shameful. Thanks for Ray diLorenzo today. Excellent analysis. Unfortunately people’s minds are firmly shut (LA, CA). I finally realize that the email articles I forward ARE NOT OPENED SO NOT READ. I have to look to the internet to find those who share my views/values. On another note: I don’t anticipate ever visiting Israel again due to vaxzine mandate. It is astounding that NWO/great reset will accomplish what hytler could not. Here, drs fired for promoting hydroxychl…, factory for making it bombed in 12/2020. Fake death statistics to ramp up fear porn. Just watch gates videos if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
@ Michael S:
This time anyway…
Caesar was only the family name of Julius. Octavian was the first emperor not Julius, and I think his grandfather was either a brother or cousin of Julius. Julius adopted him, and left him the control of Rome, Tiberius was also a pseudo Caesar, Octavian having married his mother Livia. She had a great name as a poisoner, lived to be about 85. Everyone was afraid of her. “I Claudius”, followed by “Claudius the GoD”… by Robert Graves, are historical novels all about the whole period, and are well worth reading.
Tiberius always reminded me in some way of Lyndon Johnson. Caligula was also adopted into the family and so it went. There was really only one original Caesar, who was Julius.
It’s also all described by Seutonius in his “12 Caesars”.
As for Kushner, I didn’t follow him as closely as you, so take your word for it. I still say that whatever he did was because of the drive and determination of Trump, who at least mapped out an outline for him to follow.
On another disconnected point, rhetorically, why is it that no one asks where the career low-salaried politican Biden got the money to buy that $47 mill estate recently . On another point it has occurred to me that Biden’s new tax on those earning over $400,000 was put into his “mind” because his own Presidential salary is exactly $400.000. So he naturally is greedy to deprive those who earn more.. . (because of his mental disability he has forgotten about all the grafted millions he’s pocketed.)
That’s all from me…..except that Caligula was crazy yes, but Nero wasn’t. In fact he was an “O.K” emperor much of his reign, crazy about the Arts, and narcissistic, and vey popular with the people. Those he taxed heavily, the rich, hated him and eventually brought his dow Hnfall He knocked off a few enemies here and there, but that was the common pracice of the times. Evn Claudius, harmless and scholarly, did the same thing- when he got into his stride.
@ Michael S:
This time anyway…
Caesar was only the family name of Julius. Octavian was the first emperor not Julius, and I think his grandfather was either a brother or cousin of Julius. Julius adopted him, and left him the control of Rome, Tiberius was also a pseudo Caesar, Octavian having married his mother Livia. She had a great name as a poisoner, lived to be about 85. Everyone was afraid of her. “I Claudius”, followed by “Claudius the GoD”… by Robert Graves, are historical novels all about the whole period, and are well worth reading.
Tiberius always reminded me in some way of Lyndon Johnson. Caligula was also adopted into the family and so it went. There was really only one original Caesar, who was Julius.
It’s also all described by Seutonius in his “12 Caesars”.
As for Kushner, I didn’t follow him as closely as you, so take your word for it. I still say that whatever he did was because of the drive and determination of Trump, who at least mapped out an outline for him to follow.
On another disconnected point, rhetorically, why is it that no one asks where the career low-salaried politican Biden got the money to buy that $47 mill estate recently . On another point it has occurred to me that Biden’s new tax on those earning over $400,000 was put into his “mind” because his own Presidential salary is exactly $400.000. So he naturally is greedy to deprive those who earn more.. . (because of his mental disability he has forgotten about all the grafted millions he’s pocketed.)
That’s all from me.
@ Edgar G.:
Edgar,
I am not trying to dog you here; I just feel a great check in your confidence in Kushner (“mirrored”, as you say, by Ted’s). The young man displays outstanding qualities — particularly his ability to read people to find out what they each want, and bring them to agreement. He also is flat-out fearsome in the ferocity of his personal vengeance (Ask Chris Christie). I have to qualify what I said about “filial piety”; because he certainly did perform his duty to his father to a fanatical degree — to the point of dedicating himself to prison reform because of his father’s experience. But I don’t see any warmth in the man; only scheming tension. In President Trump, I saw great capability, tempered with real empathy and morality. In Kushner, I only see capability — perhaps even more than his father-in-law’s.
We live in such an exceptional age, that we have created an office of “POTUS” that is so enormous, so powerful, so hegemonic in its very nature, that only the most exceptional people are able to control it without it controlling them. It is like the office of the Roman Caesars — who were so wealthy and powerful, they had more sway than all the senators and equestrians put together. The occupants of that office ranged from terrible but capable (Caesar and Octavian), grading into unrestrained lunacy (Caligula and Nero). It’s the office itself which is the most terrifying monster mankind has ever witnessed. That’s what gives me the bajeebers.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I think Phillips is wrong. She has shown weakness of observation several times over the last year or so that I noticed, and perhaps longer. She is allowing personal prejudices to become more evident in her articles.
Ot so it seems to me. I saw Ted’s post about Kushner and It almost mirrors what I thought when I read it. I don’t know anything about him going AWOL, unless what is meant that he was not prominent in denouncing Biden and defending Trump in the aftermath of the stolen election. I personally didn’t pay muh attention to Kushner at any time, except during the nengotiations with thr Arabs, and I felt that it was Trump’s push which made it all possible.
By the way, the whole, highlighted article is far more than the supposedly allowable maximum f o400 words, which Ted recently posted.. Unless what was meant was 400 words written by the poster.
On the other hand, another spin. She did read the article. I dunno. Depends on how it plays out, I suppose, to see if he was right or just being opportunist as Philips claims. I suspect she’s being a little too harsh, but I’m not sure.
I don’t trust Kushner as far as I can throw him.
Ted:
“He bypasses the issue of whether Biden’s focus on China is meant to partner with it or to confront it as Trump was wont to do.”
Biden plans to kowtow, and to stuff his pockets with Yuan along the way. As for Jared, he has all the filial piety of a European noble (i.e., “none”)
I reread Kushner’s article. I see nothing wrong in his remarks. He upheld Trump’s accomplishments and advised Biden to follow in his footsteps.
But he also gave Biden the benefit of the doubt.
He bypasses the issue of whether Biden’s focus on China is meant to partner with it or to confront it as Trump was wont to do.
I have a different view. Iran’s aggressiveness forced Biden to take a stronger stance.
All of which begs the question. Why was Kushner AWOL?
Though Kushner omitted mention of the sunset clauses, one of which already has.
https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/press-releases/iran-nuclear-deals-sunset-provisions-begin-expiring-2020
I don’t have any problem with what he wrote. I’d be surprised if any of you will either. Here it is:
I appreciate all your comments. When I posted this video, I asked “Is it fair criticism?”
The evidence she cites from his article could have a different interpretation.
There have been rumours circulating that Trump and Kushner are at odds.
And one thing we know for sure is that Kushner abandoned the ship as it was going down. He did not fight for Trump like Eric did. Kushner should have been on the front lines . Unfortunately he was AWOL.
Clickbait from India.
Kusher has done an excellent job recently showing what he and the Trump administration did on the Abraham Accords.
Not true. Put out by the Fake News