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Netanyahu’s Winston Churchill shtick as beleaguered champion of western civilization heroically and singularly holding the dark savages at the gates is beyond parody. But Republicans an d western conservatives eat that shit up uncritically like an 1980’s 10yo Hulkster ate up WWF ringside antics at WrestleMania 3.

Regardless, Netanyahu is at root a nationalist hawk so he codes to western R/W nationalists and hawks as exactly the kind of guy who has always been right and whose counsel should always be heeded. Even though his track record of wrongness and incompetence establishes him as pretty much the opposite.

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Vance is not ignorant, nor is he gullible.

He knows the truth, and he is consciously lying, because he knows what lies he has to tell to keep Trump and the GOP happy.

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Are you sure of that? It seems like a statement easily disproven, as in fact it was. Is it possible that he simply didn't know what he was talking about?

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As a matter of philosophical proof or as a matter of "beyond reasonable doubt"?

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J. D. Vance recently made a speech defending the Christians of the middle east. This gives you a good opportunity to inform him that the Zionist foreign policies are helping to destroy these communities: Charles Sennott, The Body and the Blood; the destruction of Latrun in Max Blumenthal, Goliath; Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Munther Isaac.

Three quarters of the Christians of Iraq are killed or exiled as a result of our Zionist extravaganza.

A whole Christian province of Armenia was lost to Azerbaijan a few months ago and nobody's interested. Turkey was allied to Israel from the 1960s to 2010, when the Israelis boarded a Turkish humanitarian supply ship to Gaza and killed a few people. In Oct. 2008 the National Review denied the Armenian genocide in an editorial. Laura Ingraham broadcast the same denial at the same time which proves that the project originated in A.I.P.AC. The Jews are for the Jews, I accept that; the servility of the "Christian" conservatives is beneath contempt.

Robert Reno at First Things has lost all interest in the the middle east which is the sign of a bad conscience.

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