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One's admiration of Blinken grows.

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When he tells Nitwityahoo that for every dime spent promoting more settlements in the West Bank they loose a dollar from their welfare check, then he'll be taking action. That's language Nitwityahoo will understand.

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I call bibi that also. what a monster he is!

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I call him a murderer, plain and simple.

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Not so plain and simple, though, Betsy.

I've seen other reports of Israeli intentions to send its agents out now on a permanent assassination hunt for any and all Hamas operatives worldwide. Things will get much more complicated, much more murderously messy.

You saw the Stephen Spielberg film, "Munich"? How many-fold might we multiply the murders in it across how many more governments, families, and settings urban and rural?

And all for a cluster of very-far-right "settlers" forever covetous of more thefts of more land?

And --dooming us all the more -- no schools with any programs anywhere in the world for seeing anyone outside the tribal blinkers, no schools with any respect for communication with "others" as individuals in their cultures?

As if the billionaire games led by the 100-year-old mass murderer who died recently were the only games for our ruling vulgar and their eunuchs?

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He is IsraelтАЩs Trump.

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I'd say he's one of Trump's role models.

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It seems the Israeli тАЭkeeper of the peaceтАЭ has failed - royally - while trying to keep himself out of jail for his mistakes and misdeeds!!!

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So many sociopathic a-holes out there in тАЬleadership тАЬ positions trying to keep out of jail...mind boggling.

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That they (sociopathic a-holes) exist is not surprising. That people support, lionize, revere, and vote for them is simply astonishing.

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Or revolting.

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Sad and a bit frightening because I am realizing - more and more - that itтАЩs never or not so much about them (the candidates) but it is really about us тАж the VOTERS!!!

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You are 100% right тАж. The very best government is always vulnerable to those who hate authority of any kind and do everything in their power to destroy it.

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Thoroughly mind-boggling, indeed. One wonders how they got into "leadership" positions.

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More specifically, heтАЩs referred to himself as either тАЬMr. SecurityтАЭ or тАЬBibi-SitterтАЭ. Source: The Hill, Is Netanyahu тАШMr. SecurityтАЩ? by Guy Ziv, 02/18/15 6:30 AM ET and тАЬSuch tough-talking helped Netanyahu win the election, and he has positioned himself ever since as тАЬMr SecurityтАЭ тАФ the one leader who could ensure IsraelтАЩs safety in a hostile neighbourhood, without making painful concessions to the Palestinians.тАЭ Source: The Financial Times, James Shotter in Jerusalem and Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv OCTOBER 15 2023.

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Ah. "I alone can do it"?

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Excellent idea!

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Mine does for sure. He's certainly a credit to Biden and our higher aspirations.

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Thank goodness for A Blinken (pun intended).

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And the president who appointed him. It's a team effort (despite recent reports of State Dept unease in the ranks), without a mercurial monster hogging the airtime. Imagine if this were not so...

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BlinkenтАЩs was indeed an enigmatic, diplomatic reply.

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As diplomatic replies are wont to be. Unlike certain perfect telephone calls...

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ЁЯдг

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Good one. I pissed myself, laughing. Bravo, Louden.

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