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jfern
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« on: July 26, 2015, 10:09:14 PM »

Supposedly Fienstein was the first Senator to side with the deal. I'm still in shock.
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jfern
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2015, 07:35:27 PM »

Is there a possibility of any Republican Senator supporting the deal?

Jeff Flake might support it.
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jfern
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2015, 11:12:09 PM »

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jfern
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2015, 01:38:11 AM »

I'm hesitant to bring this up because I'm only patrilineally Jewish (and thus not really Jewish at all, because I take the rules seriously even if they're not technically mine), but accusing somebody like Al Franken (I don't know enough about Horus to know whether or not the same can be said of him) of not being Jewish enough or of self-hatred on the basis of a position that evinces a slightly-less-than-uncritical attitude towards the Israeli political consensus is honestly kind of unnerving. I understand that most (all?) of the major political factions in Israel are less than thrilled with this deal and many of them are quite vehemently opposed to it, but treating it as an issue on which dissent from that viewpoint is completely unacceptable strikes me as...I can't think of a word that succinctly indicates that I have a strongly negative view of that tendency but don't consider myself invested enough in Jewishness to fully commit to that view, but it strikes me as that.

AIPAC calls everyone who doesn't support the latest wars anti-semitic or not Jewish enough. Noam Chomsky has pointed this out many times.
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jfern
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2015, 01:15:17 AM »


Naw, he probably would have been bribed and threatened until he supported it.
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jfern
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2015, 08:56:31 PM »

It's going to be like that flag burning amendment, isn't it?

I can't believe that would have passed if Joe Lieberman hadn't voted no.
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