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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe uncle of Amal Clooney is arms dealer Ziad Takieddine, major supplier of weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah.
She is Lebanese and a human rights lawyer. I wondered why there hasn't been any comment from her since the war started two months ago. I'm not sure what to make of it, if anything.
https://www.clooneysopenhouse.com/t6250-ziad-takieddine-uncle-of-amal-alamuddin
It may mean nothing. He wasn't at their wedding. But I thought it was interesting.
Ocelot II
(115,924 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(1,876 posts)Maybe she'd rather stay away from the toxic environment.
Takket
(21,655 posts)TexasDem69
(1,855 posts)Has a criminal son
Scrivener7
(51,070 posts)TexasDem69
(1,855 posts)Really? On edit, not clear what you are saying. Joe Biden is not a criminal, his son is.
Deuxcents
(16,384 posts)TexasDem69
(1,855 posts)Theres no mystery here. This isnt DB Cooper or Jack the Ripper. Hunter Biden did it and is a criminal.
Scrivener7
(51,070 posts)I know he got way behind on his taxes and then paid them.
TexasDem69
(1,855 posts)You arent really arguing for innocence are you?
On edit, here you go. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/08/politics/hunter-biden-charges-what-matters/index.html
Scrivener7
(51,070 posts)The rest is accusations from the republiQans.
Talk to me after a trial or a deal about his guilt or innocence. Or does the most fundamental basis of the American legal system not work for you?
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Scrivener7
(51,070 posts)Pisces
(5,602 posts)Scrivener7
(51,070 posts)hlthe2b
(102,458 posts)has written/been interviewed about him repeatedly. The Uncle can not explain how-- being the descendants of Holocaust survivors --his sister could have produced such a monster.
So... it happens.
msongs
(67,465 posts)My father was a right wing christo-fascist orange blobfather supporter. So?
choie
(4,111 posts)Does that make her a de facto antisemite?
marble falls
(57,404 posts)... nothing, right? Guilt by association. Really hate to see that stuff on a place called "DemocraticUnderground", let alone the work and resources the Clooneys have given for Democratic causes in this country.
I'm sure this wasn't your intent.
marmar
(77,106 posts)UTUSN
(70,771 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,034 posts)being related to him it seems unsettling to throw such out there.
It feels like it can only act as guilt by association.
There is plenty of room for unrelenting fury at Hamas, Hezbollah, their supporters and funders without adding witch hunts to it.
Robespierre and Joe McCarthy can stay where they are.