Shmuley Boteach Wanders Into Politics With Humorous Results... a continuing series (?)
Shmuley B., King of Kosher Sex, and close personal friend of Michael Jackson, says the president deserves our worship and adulation because Bush... courageously defended Israel's right to build its anti-terror wall"
The reality: Bush opposed the security fence, as recently as last year and he forced the issue by cutting Israel's loan guarantees. I see no sign of any courage. Do you?
Sources
I think the wall is a problem...it is very difficult to develop confidence between the Palestinians and Israel with a wall snaking through the West Bank." President Bush, July 25, 2003
The Bush administration will go ahead with $1.6 billion in loan guarantees requested by Israel but will reduce subsequent guarantees as punishment for expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, the State Department announced Tuesday. CCN - September 16, 2003
Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner joined by 7 other members of Congress, called on President Bush to renounce threatened cuts to Israel’s loan guarantees. The White House is reportedly threatening to reduce $9 billion in guarantees to Israel unless it stops building its security fence. -- November 25, 2003
The Bush administration said on Tuesday it would deduct nearly $290 million from a multibillion-dollar package of loan guarantees for Israel, penalizing the Jewish state for its controversial barrier through Palestinian areas and settlement expansion.
---November 25, 2003
Washington is penalising Israel for building the "security fence" through the West Bank and its continued expansion of Jewish settlements by cutting nearly $300m (£175m) in loan guarantees. - Guardian, November 26, 2003
PS: DovBear supports the wall. Bush didn't. How about showing me some hakaras hatov?
Hat tip Miriam
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