{"id":13280,"date":"2014-07-21T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2014-07-21T00:52:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:52:56","slug":"entertainment-from-butcher-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/entertainment-from-butcher-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment from Butcher Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If I&rsquo;m in the mood for some relatively violent entertainment, I can watch Broncos game films (until the Holy Ellipsoid Orb returns).&nbsp; For even more violence, I can turn on the fights, where sometimes a hockey game breaks out.&nbsp; Or for the most violence of all, there are children&rsquo;s cartoons on network TV.&nbsp; But fans of Butcher Ben Netanyahu get to enjoy a front rows seat where they can cheer the rain of Israeli bombs killing Palestinian children.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"0721watchwar\" border=\"0\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0721watchwar.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"0721watchwar\" width=\"360\" \/>As the sun begins to sink over the Mediterranean, groups of Israelis gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to <strong>cheer, whoop and whistle as bombs rain down on people<\/strong> in a warzone hell a few miles away.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Old sofas, garden chairs, battered car seats and upturned crates provide seating for the spectators. On one hilltop, a swing has been attached to the branches of a pine tree, allowing its occupant to sway gently in the breeze. Some bring bottles of beer or soft drinks and snacks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"0721killedkids.\" border=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0721killedkids.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" title=\"0721killedkids.\" width=\"360\" \/>On Saturday, a group of men huddle around a shisha pipe. Nearly all hold up smartphones to record the explosions or to pose grinning, perhaps with thumbs up, for selfies against a backdrop of black smoke.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Despite reports that millions of Israelis are living in terror of Hamas rockets, they don&rsquo;t deter these hilltop war watchers whose proximity to Gaza puts them within range of the most rudimentary missiles. <strong>Some bring their children<\/strong>&hellip; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/07\/20\/israelis-gather-on-hillsides-to-watch-and-cheer-as-military-drops-bombs-on-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my opinion, Israel is perpetrating war crimes while the violate their treaty obligations under the Helsinki accords.&nbsp; The Prime Minister of Turkey, our NATO Ally, calls Israel&rsquo;s actions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CY3HotFdAnY\" target=\"_blank\">a threat to world peace<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CY3HotFdAnY?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree with him. Furthermore, unequivocal US support for Israel, out of the fear of losing the Jewish vote, threatens our own national security.&nbsp; When the UN agrees to sanction Israel, but can do nothing because the US uses our Security Council veto to prevent it, that creates enemies around the world.&nbsp; Instead, we&rsquo; needs to cut off Butcher Ben&rsquo;s supplies of money and weapons until such time as he becomes willing to stop the slaughter and negotiate in good faith.&nbsp; Otherwise, I can guarantee you that Americans will die at the hands of family members or sympathizers of these murdered children, who are seeking revenge against Israel&rsquo;s enablers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&rsquo;m in the mood for some relatively violent entertainment, I can watch Broncos game films (until the Holy Ellipsoid Orb returns).&nbsp; For even more violence, I can turn on the fights, where sometimes a hockey game breaks out.&nbsp; Or for the most violence of all, there are children&rsquo;s cartoons on network TV.&nbsp; But fans <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/entertainment-from-butcher-ben\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}