The 2008 Friars Club roast took place at the New York Hilton and was attended by everyone from future President Donald Trump to TV legend Norman Lear to a constellation of New York’s media elite including Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Nancy O’Dell and Howard Stern. Also on hand were numerous top executives from across the business and almost everyone who was anyone at NBC News. Fox News has confirmed many details of the roast with a media executive who attended, and has also drawn on the one contemporaneous account of the roast, which appeared in the Village Voice.
Today, President Trump gave a speech in which he announced that his administration is officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and beginning preparations to move the US embassy there.
It’s a reckless decision that brings with it no tangible benefits -- and many serious risks.
Why, you may ask, is this decision so important? Why are so many experts and foreign leaders worried about what it could mean for peace and stability in Jerusalem and throughout the region?
Because for decades, American PRESIDENTS OF BOTH PARTIES have made clear that while parts of Jerusalem will eventually be internationally recognized as the capital of Israel, the final status of the entirety of Jerusalem has to be decided by a negotiated peace agreement. They’ve avoided any step that could be seen to prejudge the outcome -- like recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, or moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.
Let’s be clear -- J Street believes that Israel’s capital is in Jerusalem, where the Jewish people have ancient ties and an incredibly deep spiritual connection. And we know that the only way to secure international recognition of this capital, and lasting peace for the city and for Israel as a whole, is via a two-state solution that also makes East Jerusalem the capital of an independent Palestinian state.
Today’s announcement only moves us farther away from that goal. Security officials and diplomats from the US and Israel have warned that it could lead to violence, not only in Jerusalem but in Arab and Muslim states across the region -- and potentially against US diplomats and servicepeople. Indeed, the State Department has already warned US embassies around the world to heighten security in the wake of the announcement.
Already, the move is meeting with outrage and condemnation from the Palestinians and from key Arab allies like Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- precisely the allies whose support and engagement is needed to advance negotiations and achieve the administration’s stated goal of achieving comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Arab leaders are portraying the move as an alarming sign that the US is not truly serious about leading good-faith diplomatic efforts towards Israeli-Palestinian peace -- and warning that it could inflame tensions throughout the Muslim world.
Simply put: There’s no good reason to take this destabilizing decision right now, at a time when the administration CLAIMS it is focusing on launching a major new peace initiative. Like so much of what the president says and does, it seems designed purely to cater to his HARD-RIGHT BASE among Christian evangelicals and a small minority of American Jews. In fact, he explicitly made clear that this decision was intended to deliver on a campaign promise.
While some of the president’s defenders may portray this move as a “pro-Israel” step, the vast MAJORITY of American Jews do not support it. The Reform Movement, the largest Jewish movement in North America, has spoken out against it. A September 2017 AJC poll found THAT 80 PERCENT of American Jews believe that the embassy should either NOT be moved, or should be moved ONLY in conjunction with progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace. And polling released by the Brookings Foundation just last week found that 31 percent of Americans back such a step.
This decision by the president is just the latest example of this administration’s provocative and incoherent foreign policy undermining our credibility, imperiling our security and alienating our allies. J Street has been and continues to be an important force pushing back against decisions like these -- and the extreme, influential groups and individual voices who promote them. As we hope and pray that this move does not lead to further violence and suffering, we’re standing up for the kind of effective diplomacy and pragmatic policy that can actually secure Israel’s future and make the region safer. We’re working towards sweeping political change in 2018, to empower a rising generation of pro-Israel, pro-peace lawmakers to serve as a powerful bulwark against the worst inclinations of the Trump administration.
Today is a day for worry and frustration -- but also for resolve and renewed commitment to ... a different kind of American leadership.
We can help bring about a better future for Israelis, for Palestinians and for Jerusalem.
And even as Trump pursues this travesty to gain politically with his depraved base, he claims he is for a two state solution -- which neither he nor Netanyahu are really for.
Today is a day for worry and frustration -- but also for resolve and renewed commitment to ... a different kind of American leadership.
We can help bring about a better future for Israelis, for Palestinians and for Jerusalem.
Thank you, Jeremy Ben-Ami President of J Street ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Strange way to further a two state solution (which Trump lyingly says he is for).
I think many would say that a two state solution would leave the resolution of the Jerusalem matter toward the last, with the possibility that the Palestinian state would hold east Jerusalem to be their capital and the Israelis would hold west Jerusalem to be their capital.
So Israel should use its nuclear capacity? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
better idea -
send all the hollyweird and DC sexual predators over and cut them loose on the pali women.
I think many would say that a two state solution would leave the resolution of the Jerusalem matter toward the last, with the possibility that the Palestinian state would hold east Jerusalem to be their capital and the Israelis would hold west Jerusalem to be their capital.
So you agree Jerusalem is Israel's capital. That's generally where you would place embassies.
BTW Israel is the only country in the world where foreign embassies are not in the designated capital of the country.
Anonymous James said... Trump earlier claimed to have a plan for peace in the middle east. We are waiting for that plan to be revealed. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
step one:
tell the palestinians to go fuck themselves.
step two:
acknowledge the fact that a two state solution to peace was always bullshit.
A judge has sentenced former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager to 20 years in prison more than two years after he fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, as he ran away.
Judge David Norton found that Slager, a former officer with the North Charleston's police department in South Carolina, committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. In May, Slager pleaded guilty to violating Scott's federal civil rights in a plea deal that dropped the state's murder charge.
"I thank God for the 50 years he was here," said Judy Scott, Walter Scott's mother, after Judge Norton's ruling. Later, after the sentence was announced, Judy Scott forgave her son's murder.
"I forgive Michael Slager. I forgive you. Forgiveness is in my heart," she reportedly said while looking directly at Slager in the courtroom.
Videotape of the April 4, 2015 incident showed Slager shooting an unarmed Scott as he ran away from the former police officer during a traffic stop. The shooting death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer received national attention, especially after bystander video of the incident emerged.
Slager was fired from the police force soon after the videotape was released to the media.
Slager faced up to life in prison in the sentencing hearing, which often resembled a full-fledged trial, with multiple witnesses coming to the stand for three days of testimony and questioning from attorneys about Scott’s last moments.
“I still can't believe he's gone," said an emotional Miles Scott, Walter’s son, when he took the stand. "I miss my father every day. I would like you to sentence him to the strongest sentence allowed because he murdered my one and only father,” Miles said.
Before the judge sentenced the former police officer, Slager, in handcuffs and chains, told that Scott family he was thankful for their forgiveness and said, "I wish this would have never happened."
This is what will kill people in spite of CH saying no....
Politics Paul Ryan aims for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security cuts in 2018 Salon.com 3 hours ago
There has been one inescapable question surrounding the newly passed GOP tax plan: Who will pay for it? The answer is actually not complicated, because top Republicans have already told everyone. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has long dedicated his career to drawing ire over the ever-rising national debt and deficit, has made lobbying for cuts a big part of his legislative agenda. Days before the House version of the tax plan under President Donald Trump's administration passed, Ryan was well aware of the hit the deficit would take as a result. In fact, he already had a plan in place to help fix the problem his party deliberately intended to create: spending cuts and welfare reform. "You ...
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HB, has told us all, so they answer is Yes.
4. Trump's gun policy
5. Trump starting WWIII
6. Trump bashing the innocent, objective media
The 2008 Friars Club roast took place at the New York Hilton and was attended by everyone from future President Donald Trump to TV legend Norman Lear to a constellation of New York’s media elite including Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Nancy O’Dell and Howard Stern. Also on hand were numerous top executives from across the business and almost everyone who was anyone at NBC News. Fox News has confirmed many details of the roast with a media executive who attended, and has also drawn on the one contemporaneous account of the roast, which appeared in the Village Voice.
https://pagesix.com/2017/12/06/there-was-a-top-secret-matt-lauer-roast-in-2008/
huh.
well whattaya know?
hypocrite nancy o'dell was in attendance at this raunch-fest.
she was the young lady who was mortified at trump talking to billy bush on the access hollywood tape about GRABBING HER BY THE PUSSY.
that would be nancy o'dell's pussy alky.
BOOM goes another faux outrage, bullshit, alky meme.
Today, President Trump gave a speech in which he announced that his administration is officially recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and beginning preparations to move the US embassy there.
It’s a reckless decision that brings with it no tangible benefits -- and many serious risks.
Why, you may ask, is this decision so important? Why are so many experts and foreign leaders worried about what it could mean for peace and stability in Jerusalem and throughout the region?
Because for decades, American PRESIDENTS OF BOTH PARTIES have made clear that while parts of Jerusalem will eventually be internationally recognized as the capital of Israel, the final status of the entirety of Jerusalem has to be decided by a negotiated peace agreement. They’ve avoided any step that could be seen to prejudge the outcome -- like recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, or moving the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.
Let’s be clear -- J Street believes that Israel’s capital is in Jerusalem, where the Jewish people have ancient ties and an incredibly deep spiritual connection. And we know that the only way to secure international recognition of this capital, and lasting peace for the city and for Israel as a whole, is via a two-state solution that also makes East Jerusalem the capital of an independent Palestinian state.
Today’s announcement only moves us farther away from that goal. Security officials and diplomats from the US and Israel have warned that it could lead to violence, not only in Jerusalem but in Arab and Muslim states across the region -- and potentially against US diplomats and servicepeople. Indeed, the State Department has already warned US embassies around the world to heighten security in the wake of the announcement.
Already, the move is meeting with outrage and condemnation from the Palestinians and from key Arab allies like Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- precisely the allies whose support and engagement is needed to advance negotiations and achieve the administration’s stated goal of achieving comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Arab leaders are portraying the move as an alarming sign that the US is not truly serious about leading good-faith diplomatic efforts towards Israeli-Palestinian peace -- and warning that it could inflame tensions throughout the Muslim world.
Simply put: There’s no good reason to take this destabilizing decision right now, at a time when the administration CLAIMS it is focusing on launching a major new peace initiative. Like so much of what the president says and does, it seems designed purely to cater to his HARD-RIGHT BASE among Christian evangelicals and a small minority of American Jews. In fact, he explicitly made clear that this decision was intended to deliver on a campaign promise.
While some of the president’s defenders may portray this move as a “pro-Israel” step, the vast MAJORITY of American Jews do not support it. The Reform Movement, the largest Jewish movement in North America, has spoken out against it. A September 2017 AJC poll found THAT 80 PERCENT of American Jews believe that the embassy should either NOT be moved, or should be moved ONLY in conjunction with progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace. And polling released by the Brookings Foundation just last week found that 31 percent of Americans back such a step.
This decision by the president is just the latest example of this administration’s provocative and incoherent foreign policy undermining our credibility, imperiling our security and alienating our allies. J Street has been and continues to be an important force pushing back against decisions like these -- and the extreme, influential groups and individual voices who promote them.
As we hope and pray that this move does not lead to further violence and suffering, we’re standing up for the kind of effective diplomacy and pragmatic policy that can actually secure Israel’s future and make the region safer. We’re working towards sweeping political change in 2018, to empower a rising generation of pro-Israel, pro-peace lawmakers to serve as a powerful bulwark against the worst inclinations of the Trump administration.
Today is a day for worry and frustration -- but also for resolve and renewed commitment to ... a different kind of American leadership.
We can help bring about a better future for Israelis, for Palestinians and for Jerusalem.
Thank you,
Jeremy Ben-Ami
President of J Street
And even as Trump pursues this travesty to gain politically with his depraved base, he claims he is for a two state solution -- which neither he nor Netanyahu are really for.
The unprincipled LIAR-IN-CHIEF.
But no matter what happens after Trump’s Jerusalem statement, it is wrong to blame him for any violence or subsequent lack of progress toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The continued Palestinian refusal to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state or Jewish ties to Jerusalem that is made manifest by their threats of a new intifada over a largely meaningless gesture by Trump remains the real problem. Trump may not be advancing a peace process that is already doomed, but he may give those willing to look clearly at the situation another demonstration of Palestinian intransigence.
Today is a day for worry and frustration -- but also for resolve and renewed commitment to ... a different kind of American leadership.
We can help bring about a better future for Israelis, for Palestinians and for Jerusalem.
Thank you,
Jeremy Ben-Ami
President of J Street
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
trump just grabbed jeremy by the pussy.
Strange way to further a two state solution (which Trump lyingly says he is for).
I think many would say that a two state solution would leave the resolution of the Jerusalem matter toward the last, with the possibility that the Palestinian state would hold east Jerusalem to be their capital and the Israelis would hold west Jerusalem to be their capital.
Every fucking time one of them spam retards have to ruin a thread.
quickest way to a two-state solution:
eliminate one of the states.
i know, i know, it's stealing a moose-limb/palestinian idea, but hey... if it's a good idea...
So Israel should use its nuclear capacity?
So Israel should use its nuclear capacity?
Boom!
So Israel should use its nuclear capacity?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
better idea -
send all the hollyweird and DC sexual predators over and cut them loose on the pali women.
I think many would say that a two state solution would leave the resolution of the Jerusalem matter toward the last, with the possibility that the Palestinian state would hold east Jerusalem to be their capital and the Israelis would hold west Jerusalem to be their capital.
So you agree Jerusalem is Israel's capital. That's generally where you would place embassies.
BTW Israel is the only country in the world where foreign embassies are not in the designated capital of the country.
Trump earlier claimed to have a plan for peace in the middle east. We are waiting for that plan to be revealed.
1992: Bill Clinton vows to move the embassy.
1995: Congress approves the relocation of the embassy by the year 1999. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2000: George W. Bush bashes Clinton for failing to move the embassy and promises to do so.
2008: Barack Obama says, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”
2017: Trump fulfills another campaign promise announces U.S. embassy is moving to Jerusalem.
Anonymous James said...
Trump earlier claimed to have a plan for peace in the middle east. We are waiting for that plan to be revealed.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
step one:
tell the palestinians to go fuck themselves.
step two:
acknowledge the fact that a two state solution to peace was always bullshit.
step three:
TBD based upon reaction to step one.
Ette, HB is a punk.
You are so kind to continually educate him.
It would be a difficult task to ask an Alzheimer's disease victim to educate yours truly. LOL
CH, question number three is dishonest. We have recognized that Jerusalem as the capital of Israel since ?97.
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital?
Building a United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel's capital instead of the political capital in Tel Aviv?
Nuance matters my friend.
Demonstrations in the West Bank
In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning.
Trump earlier claimed to have a plan for peace in the middle east. We are waiting for that plan to be revealed
Tel Aviv is not the capital of anything political or otherwise.
Every time the ambassador needs to meet with government ministers it's an hour automobile trip across Israel.
The embassy needs to be in the capital of the country.
It's ridiculous to keep denying the reality.
Step 1 - take the powerful move of doing what only said for the past 20 years by US Presidents.
Step 2 - get a stronger Senate and House by electing more Republicans.
no need to show the "resistance" future moves
A judge has sentenced former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager to 20 years in prison more than two years after he fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, as he ran away.
Judge David Norton found that Slager, a former officer with the North Charleston's police department in South Carolina, committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. In May, Slager pleaded guilty to violating Scott's federal civil rights in a plea deal that dropped the state's murder charge.
"I thank God for the 50 years he was here," said Judy Scott, Walter Scott's mother, after Judge Norton's ruling. Later, after the sentence was announced, Judy Scott forgave her son's murder.
"I forgive Michael Slager. I forgive you. Forgiveness is in my heart," she reportedly said while looking directly at Slager in the courtroom.
Videotape of the April 4, 2015 incident showed Slager shooting an unarmed Scott as he ran away from the former police officer during a traffic stop. The shooting death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer received national attention, especially after bystander video of the incident emerged.
Slager was fired from the police force soon after the videotape was released to the media.
Slager faced up to life in prison in the sentencing hearing, which often resembled a full-fledged trial, with multiple witnesses coming to the stand for three days of testimony and questioning from attorneys about Scott’s last moments.
“I still can't believe he's gone," said an emotional Miles Scott, Walter’s son, when he took the stand. "I miss my father every day. I would like you to sentence him to the strongest sentence allowed because he murdered my one and only father,” Miles said.
Before the judge sentenced the former police officer, Slager, in handcuffs and chains, told that Scott family he was thankful for their forgiveness and said, "I wish this would have never happened."
Mc Pea brain posits....
government ministers it's an hour automobile trip across Israel.
Now there is a compelling reason to piss off half the world as menstral works hard to rationalize anything trump does....
told that Scott family he was thankful for their forgiveness and said, "I wish this would have never happened."
Wonder how many trump voters are thinking the same thing??????
This is what will kill people in spite of CH saying no....
Politics
Paul Ryan aims for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security cuts in 2018
Salon.com 3 hours ago
There has been one inescapable question surrounding the newly passed GOP tax plan: Who will pay for it? The answer is actually not complicated, because top Republicans have already told everyone. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has long dedicated his career to drawing ire over the ever-rising national debt and deficit, has made lobbying for cuts a big part of his legislative agenda. Days before the House version of the tax plan under President Donald Trump's administration passed, Ryan was well aware of the hit the deficit would take as a result. In fact, he already had a plan in place to help fix the problem his party deliberately intended to create: spending cuts and welfare reform. "You ...
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