Sarah Palin urges Israel settlement expansion, attacks Barack Obama

[IndianaGreen]

Sarah Palin just won the endorsement of the Israel Lobby! Whoohooo!

Sarah Palin urges Israel settlement expansion, attacks Barack Obama

Sarah Palin calls for an expansion of Israel settlements – challenging 40 years of US policy – in an interview with Barbara Walters. Palin also criticizes Barack Obama for urging an Israeli halt.

By Dan Murphy | Staff writer 11.18.09

Former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been something of a news generating machine of late, thanks to the publicity tour for her recently released memoir, “Going Rogue.”

Whether a minor public spat with Levi Johnston (father of her grandson), her appearance with daytime talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, describing Katie Couric’s interview style as “badgering,” or describing Newsweek’s photo choice for a recent cover on her as “sexist,” she’s been able to cause gallons of ink to be spilled over almost all of her comings and goings (this news organizations is a guilty as anyone).

But while most of her comments and coverage have been about personalities, or campaign styles, or whether she was comfortable with her $150,000 wardrobe during the presidential campaign, she is also beginning to provide glimpses into her policy beliefs, as supporters continue to urge her to run for the Republican nomination and challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.

Her latest bombshell: to effectively call for an end to 40 years of official government policy on Israel in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters. In teasers the network is releasing before the interview airs tonight, ABC quotes Gov. Palin as saying Obama is wrong to oppose settlement expansion, an ongoing issue that is dimming the chances for progress on peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

“I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin said. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/11/18/sarah-palin-urges-israel-settlement-expansion-attacks-barack-obama/

[bridgit]

1. Palin is too stupid to run the world

[mitchum]

31. All evidence points to the fact that she is too stupid to even run her own household

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I wonder if she could point out Israel on a map.

[IndianaGreen]

7. She can see Jerusalem from her house!

It is next to Russia!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. But if she can see Russia...

Sorry I never get tired of posting this.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Is that Mullah Putin leering at Sarah?

[Norrin Radd]

12. Map needs a few edits, though. She doesn't care for the mainland USA,

as she is for Alaskan Independence, and, they kept trying to push that bullshit meme "Hawaii is an exotic land ."

[tblue]

15. She couldn't find Israel on map of Israel.

Love your map. Lol!

[RepublicanElephant]

16. lol, perfect! nt

[undeterred]

3. Yeah, Obama should shape policy according

to the fundie vision of the "end times". That'll work. :sarcasm:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. The Dipshit Doctrine. nt

[Egnever]

18. Wow I like it

The dipshit doctrine. Perfect!

[Hekate]

4. Sarah knows that Israel must be restored to its Biblical boundaries before Jesus can return...

You betcha. Of course doing that would also unleash an apocalyptic war in this modern world, but that would just be part of Gawd's Plan for these here End Times.

When are this woman's 15 minutes of fame going to be up?

Hekate

[KharmaTrain]

10. We Have A Winner....

Please report to the front desk for your personally autographed copy of Going Rogue...written in tongues.

[Blue-Jay]

13. I hope this gets tied into MSM reports

and she is pressed more on it.

I know the fundies will love it, but I hope it will scare those in some sort of a trance.

[bullwinkle428]

23. "We need them Jewz as cannon fodder when that darn rapture happens, you betcha!"

"I'll find those biblical prophesies, and bring them to ya!"

[jillan]

You betcha that's what she believes.

She scares the crap out of me, and it's even more scary how the msm worships her.

[anonymous171]

6. $3 billion a year gives us that right. nt

[lapfog_1]

8. She is being true to her beliefs.

You have to have Israel in an all out war with the Arabs so that Jesus will return, after first killing all but 64,000 Jews (who have to convert to Christianity).

:puke:

[upi402]

11. oh God, puhLEEZ let her keep yapping!

Oh this is getting good. What a whackjob. This fluffball disagrees with a brilliant, albeit corporatist, mind.

So... if the population of Mexico grows, so should their northern border Sarah? I mean, it use to be their land. WTF, keep yapping.

[Egnever]

17. No way is anyone that stupid.

I think she has made a conscious decision to run for president on the limbaugh express. Intentional stupidity and ignorance.

Wonder what she thinks is going to happen to create the mad rush to israel in the next few months.

[Politicalboi]

21. Silly

Christmas. LOL!

[Thrill]

19. "weeks and months ahead, jewish people will be flocking to Israel"

You really can't make this shit up.

[amandabeech]

28. This may mean that she thinks that the apocalypse is right around the corner.

Correct me if I'm wrong, DUers, but don't the Jews all have to congregate in Israel before things get going? Half of them can't be stuck in small or not so small communities all over the planet. They all have to squeeze back into the area between the Med and the Jordan.

They didn't teach apocalypse in Methodist Sunday School and I could never find it in my Revised Standard Version.

[zulchzulu]

20. I'd expect a ditzy, reborn white slut trash skank to have that kind of opinion...

...it's stupid, it's uninformed, it's vacuous and it's the kind of shit you hearing coming out of cakeholes from people who have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on in the World.

[Gregorian]

22. She may be a NITWIT, but I'm ashamed of how much attention this country is giving her.

She isn't worthy of two seconds of news. When there is massive environmental emergency, war, starvation, civil rights violations all over the world, what we get is PALIN. Our media, our political arena, are diseased. I suppose the human race has been cursed with this trouble since the first person lied or wanted attention and power. But we can do better. And we appear to be willing to accept less. And it will inflict us with great suffering.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

25. +1

[Garam_Masala]

27. +10

[LynnTheDem]

24. ummm...

:wow:


Her stupidity, her deeply dangerous stupidity, just leaves me...well... :wow:

[depakid]

26. Rrrrapture Rrrready!

[polichick]

29. Please God, rapture this woman NOW!!! nt

[rvablue]

30. If she wanted to advocate this, she should have come up with different reasoning because she negates

her stand in her own argument.

If settlements must continue because the Israeli population is going to grow, then it would stand to reason that, well, the Palestinian population is going to grow, too....also. In fact, while I can't provide a distinct link or numbers, I know I've read that the Palestinian population is growing at a much higher rate.

Ergo, if expanding the settlements is purely based on population growth, then the settlements, according to $'error's reasoning, should not expand anymore.

Once again, Governor Quitter, your lightweight understanding and trite "policy" missives are an epic fail. Go read a book. Or a magazine. Any of them, please.

[DU GrovelBot]

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