MI Congressman Slams AIPAC

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

I am from Mr. Levin's district. He is a good, practical lawmaker. I wish Michigan had 10 just like him.

[@sherribell4032]

He is 100% correct.

[@marthalucas1221]

Well said Mr Levin

[@meetupspeakup4161]

Thanks. Ok- Andy Levin. He looks so, different on videos

[@kevinleblanc47]

Andy Levin is a good man, life needs to be a 2 way street one way never works. Everyone needs to win in a fair negotiation. Palestine needs to be treated more fairly. I thought all religions taught peace and love and understanding........

[@realzachfluke1]

By and large, they do. But where religions and their adherents run into trouble _ACROSS THE BOARD_ is with fundamentalism. Whether they're Christian fundamentalist, Hindu fundamentalist, Jewish fundamentalist, or the Taliban, that road only leads one way, toward complete and senseless *destruction.* When the far right wing gets their grips in a religion, no matter where they are across time or space on Earth, that is the end result. It is a tale as old as time throughout every iteration of human civilization.

[@russelldrew]

Kevin I strongly encourage you to read some history that took place more than just 10 years ago.

[@BillySBC]

Mr. Levin is only saying the same thing Senator Bernie Sanders has been saying for years. The current and past way only leads to more fighting and more war. Mr. Levin and Mr. Sanders are offering a much better solution that is an actual solution.

[@winstonsmith8565]

The dems rigged the primary against Bernie and AIPAC is trying to end Andy Levin's career. When will people realize that the democrats are broken beyond repair. A third party is the only option at this point

[@avishevin1976]

Neither are offering solutions.

[@犬の大将]

@@avishevin1976 Get over yourself

[@Sunny25611]

I agree Billy!!

[@Sunny25611]

@@犬の大将 Thank you for saying that or I would have.

[@brandont1173]

He's absolutely right.

[@neryskkiran1820]

That is ridiculous! Make sure you vote to keep this guy!

[@MatthewGreer-h3k]

He lost sadly

[@TheSaltydog07]

Brave man! Good luck! You are a mensch. .

[@PatrickJohn4825]

OMG! This is the shame of AIPAC.

[@janicebrowningaquino792]

Sounds practical and simple to me!

[@L337P1R4735]

Israel needs to listen to this guy instead of trying to shut him up.

[@saraocampo9066]

Love this guy, he is a real and a human jewish 👏👏👏👏👏

[@helengarrett6378]

Hooray ! Someone has common sense! There can be no safety or pride in being Jewish without assuring safety and pride for Palestinians too. 'Bout time someone stood up for democracy decency and fairness between two people who need each other to forge a strong nation.

[@imisstoronto3121]

Tell me, do you really think that peace could not be achieved after all this time? Considering all the wars, the conflicts that have happened since 1948 that THIS was the only conflict that a peaceful resolution could NOT be found? The reason that there is no resolution is because it took losing a few wars for the Arabs to realize that they weren't going to throw us into the sea. And that there is NO INTEREST on their part to achieve an answer. That would mean saying OUT LOUD and to the world and other Arabs that they lost to people they consider vermin. So don't tell me that its the Jews holding this up. We're just not willing to die to suit them. Besides it's to the Arabs political advantage to keep the Palestinians in DP camps. Most of the Arab countries have peace treaties with Israel but they are not interested in absorbing the "Palestinians" now anymore then they were in the 50's. Why doesnt the world do anything about the Jews that were expelled from the Arab countries in the 40's and 50s? You must know about them!! I mean you're so concerned about those that were treated terribly by their neighbours, wreaked havoc and pogroms on them and yes killed them. No I don't mean Israelis attacking Arabs. I'm talking about the race riots and the murder of Jews in Baghdad in the 40's in what is now known as The Farhad. How about returning the property and businesses and bank accounts and lands of the Jews that were kicked out of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria in the 40s and 50's?? Those Jews had lived in what became Arab lands for over a millenia and yet they were kicked out because they were Jews and no other reason. You know ALL THIS HAPPENED well before 1948 and yet I don't hear any moans of sympathy for them!!! MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE THE WORLD DIDN'T CARE, AND THEY MOVED ON WITH THEIR LIVES BECAUSE THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD LEFT. THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SIT IN DP CAMPS AND BECOME PROFESSIONAL REFUGEES AND PASS THEIR STATUS UNTO THEIR CHILDREN. Arabs like to moan and whine and cry when this happens to them but they have NO PROBLEM dishing it out to others.

[@russelldrew]

Helen, you really think the majority of Palestinians want to live peacefully with Israel? Come on.

[@realzachfluke1]

100% agree, Helen. American Jew here, grandson of a Holocaust survivor, and it really is that simple. And to the person above me, poo-pooing the idea of Palestinians being anything other than bloodthirsty savages (like the normal, peace-loving, non-desiring of war humans that they and all of us are), YES WE DO believe that in our heart of hearts, so you can take your bigotry and peddle it somewhere else.

[@russelldrew]

@@realzachfluke1 Zachary, where are all the protests among Palestinians calling for peace with their neighbors? Would love to see some documentary evidence. And you can STFU. I never said anything about calling them blood thirsty savages. That’s racist and offensive. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[@foedspaghetti3290]

Won’t be long before the old “anti Semitic” chestnut is rolled out…

[@chrisbabaero5147]

Hats off to you Mr Levin 🙏🙏🙏

[@kika-ge5qr]

My father was Palestinian. Thank you sir and God Bless you.

[@colowyowatchman4420]

Theres no such thing as a "Palestinian". "Palestinians" are displaced ARABS. Your dad was likely either Lebanese, Syrian, or Jordanian

[@colowyowatchman4420]

In 70 AD when Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans (fulfilling a prophecy by Jesus Christ Himself), they renamed Israel "Palestina" after the arch enemy of the Jews, the Philistines. They did this to spite the Jews. Its ISRAEL not palestine.🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@Sunny25611]

Well said Mr. Levin!

[@Kit-se3zs]

Awesome. Well said!! End apartheid in Israel. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

[@avishevin1976]

What do you want Israel to do? Wipe out Hamas, the PLO and all the other tyrannical factions? How exactly can Israel help free Palestine?

[@coldstonestunners]

Palestine is occupying Christian’s land. Time to go

[@preciousmaltese6483]

Thank you so much❣️❣️❣️

[@Labor_Jones]

*DEAR HUMAN BEINGS,* *Have Faith (your personal one) and have the Faith to Quit Religion.*

[@waspwrap1235]

I really hope Israel shapes up in the future

[@angelikalindenau943]

What does 'in future' mean? Lightyears? They need to remember the suffering of their ancestors and hang their heads in shame for not only failing to do better but taking pride in tormenting, cheating and killing 'others' for racist reasons. Despicable carry-on. And yes, I had Jewish German ancestors that were murdered in Auschwitz which gives me every right to state my opinion.

[@russelldrew]

Right. Because the Palestinings are behaving perfectly.

[@imisstoronto3121]

The Palestinians are not interested in peace. They have a vested interest in keeping the status quo. Arafat got 99% of what he wanted from Ehud Barak and Clinton, and STILL he wouldn't say yes to the Camp David Accords. Why? Because as he said "if I say yes I will be drinking tea with Rabin". He's referring to Yitzhak Rabin who was assassinated by a religious nutcase in Israel. You really think this could not have been solved decades ago? considering all the wars that have happened and ended since 48 that if there were two willing parties SOMETHING could have been achieved?? Of course it could have! The Arabs saw the advantage of keeping the new "Palestinians" in DP camps. They're NOT interested in helping their fellow Arabs, which is why they're not absorbed in Lebanon, Jordan or Syria. WRONG TRIBE!!

[@waspwrap1235]

@@angelikalindenau943 first, in the future refers to the current actions one can make that will affect the current decision making process of future events. Second I fully recognize that each side did suffer for the creation of the two state solution, but just like it’s not wise for me to just see it one-sided, it’s also not wise to ignore human rights violations inside this land.

[@derrytaylor7417]

I Hope that Mr. Levin is not defeated. I am so tired of the republicans and Dark Money Groups. He is a Good Man 💙💙

[@sonk536]

Everyone should watch this video today

[@angelikalindenau943]

Good man with principles - just like Bernie, he is not wanted by the movers and shakers in the power game of marked cards.

[@alexbowman7582]

Mahdi was in the U.K. a few years ago apologising for Islamic fascism.

[@aboucard93]

I had no idea about AIPAC this is crazy

[@犬の大将]

Absolutism in both parties is really starting to tick me off. All improvements in the US have been the result of compromise.

[@trishscharnowske1910]

I hope you win

[@nancyjette7]

We’re use to it! We had 4 yrs of this BS.

[@Labor_Jones]

*WAYS to MAKE the United States GREAT AGAIN.* a.) Confiscate Wealth OVER $1,000,000,000.00 but not less than $999,999,999.99 cents b.) Pay Off the National Debt. c.) Create a Mandatory UNION Wage where any U.S. Company worldwide would pay Company Employees wages equal to those in the USA Irregardless of what country these companies are in or what purpose they are there for.

[@ogg5949]

Right on! I don't think 'a' is constitutional but I'd be all for it. 'C' is an awesome idea! Can you imagine the horror in congress if someone wrote up a bill on that?! Every single congress person would lose their "line my pockets with bribes" money from corporate America if they even discussed such a bill. It's nice to dream though.

[@md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037]

Speaking of Jewish power is something that only American Jews are allowed to do in celebration (see Alan Dershowitz- “We are entitled to use our power. We have contributed disproportionately to the success of this country.” Or Bari Weiss praising “Jewish power… Jewish success”). But as soon as this influence gets called out - that’s a conspiracy theory or reprise of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Let us remind you of a few events that bear out that power. Jimmy Carter was a one-term president in part because he took on the Israel lobby over settlements. Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s liaison to the Jewish community and later Hillary Clinton’s, wrote recently that Carter ascribed his loss to the opposition of “New York Jews” who had formerly supported him but were alarmed by his criticisms of Israel’s settlements. Eizenstat frankly described the political clout of the Jewish community: It is even clearer in the decades since, that progress on these same intractable issues with which Carter was struggling forty years ago can come only with a president willing to take enormous domestic political heat and plow ahead. None have done so since with the same combination of his grit and determination-indeed, perhaps because of the political wounds he suffered. Even Tom Friedman has ascribed George H.W. Bush’s loss in 1992 in part to his hard line on the settlements. “Republicans post Bush I, and manifested most in his son Bush 2, took a strategic decision, they will never be out pro-Israel’d again. That they believe cost them electorally a lot.” Indeed, in 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidency and ran to Bush’s right on Israel issues, and gained the blessings of the lead Israel lobby organization AIPAC. AIPAC had unfettered access to the White House under Barack Obama, too. Obama’s top foreign policy aide, Ben Rhodes, has said that he spent more time dealing with 10 to 20 Jewish groups than anyone else, and those groups were piping the Israeli government line. “It’s not a conspiracy, it is what it is.” The number of people youmeet from the organized pro-Israel community equals all the other meetings that you might do with kind of diaspora or constituency groups on all the other issues. It’s that degree of dwarfing. Over the eight years I met so many times with like the usual suspects from the organized American Jewish community… it’s kind of like 10 to 20 people that you find yourself meeting with all the time… It’s not a conspiracy, it is what it is. People are advocating a position. But it’s a common position. Whatever the tension point between us and the Israeli government was at a given time, they were usually coming in to represent what I knew to be the Israeli government’s view in that circumstance….Whenever there was an international incident like the Goldstone Report or the Turkish Flotilla, you have to make sure that you’re doing everything that you can at the U.N. to kind of block this from going forward. We know how this power arose. The Jewish community has exhibited a remarkable unity in support for Israel since the 1967 and 1973 wars, at times a lockstep, and it has sought to punish dissenters. Even liberal Zionists like the group Breira, or the writer Leonard Fein, were crushed when they dared to cross Israel. Philip Weiss, editor of Mondoweiss

[@charleslewis9871]

Palestine doesn’t believe Israel should exist. That could be a problem too.

[@57colliegirl]

Israel has oppressed Palestine forever. No surprise there.

[@joenisnapje712]

He looks like a scruffy version of Neil Katyal 😂

[@raywombat]

They are the worst aren't they.

[@saint6563]

Republicans push out sensible voices in Congress & around the Nation.

[@muttinchops3708]

Free people are productive people.

[@RKasi]

He is 💯👍

[@marcgottlieb9579]

Putin told the tribe to get out yesterday...The news was on an Israeli channel...

[@bernicehagins8983]

We have allowed this i justice for so long how do you fix it????

[@joricmalolic3723]

America First!

[@bobbifreedman2435]

Don’t be Jewish. Just be. My kids are half Jewish. I am Irish. Oh what a great time my ancestors had coming here when the potatoes went bad. This is stupid. We are human. That’s it.

[@rextrek]

67th..The Once OPPRESSED HAVE Become themselves the OPPRESSORS! Free Palestine

[@rextrek]

ISrael gets BILLIONS every Year from the USA - and They HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE and ABORTIONS on Demand......meanwhile OVER 50,000+Americans DIE EVERY YEAR / EVERY YEAR for LACK of HEALTHCARE & MEDICATIONS they CANT AFFORD and NO ONE CARES!

[@russelldrew]

Mehdi lives for this: showcasing a Jewish Democrat who does not support the hardline position on Israel. Also: Levin will lose badly.

[@nemrutbaba]

Israel. There is no comparable situation on this planet, where a State claims territory (to settle their own people) but gerrymanders the original inhabitants out of citizenship.

[@coldstonestunners]

He is a bigot not a Jew

[@gdewyg]

This happens when you your story. Thanks for articulation

[@katnip6289]

Hmmm

[@nafisw100]

Way to go you cannot go wrong standing for helpless defenseless maybe in the eyes of EVIL you are bad but in the Eyes of our creator GOD of Abraham you are a sign of Compassion and light at the end of the Tunnel.

[@nafisw100]

GOD of Abraham Bless you and all your loved ones

[@pcwallace1]

Not so!!!! He has most people fooled!

[@t.r.campbell6585]

During his administration Bill Clinton, he got Yasir Arafat the head of the PLO, the head of the Jewish state (Israel) I forgot who that was at the time together to discuss peace. Israel acquiesced to all of the PLO demands. Peace was at hand and a Palestinian state was within reach. All Arafat had to do is to agree that Israel had the right to exist. That’s all he had to do and peace would’ve been at hand. The Palestinian people could have prospered. The people on both sides specifically Palestine and Israel with no longer die in the war, or bombings, or rocket attacks. Peace would’ve been at hand and Palestine would’ve been a state. Dignitaries from around the world we’re waiting for this historic agreement. I was in Washington with several of my House and Senate candidates at the time and we were all ready to go to the White House for photo opportunities and be involved in this historic agreement. Yasir Arafat, head of the PLO walked away. He would not agree to that simple request. The Palestinians have been given all of their other demands by the United States and Israel but Arafat could not agree that Israel had the right to exist. It was a great opportunity and the PLO walked away.

[@charleshanks6186]

Sharon

[@57colliegirl]

More importantly Israeli leader M. Begin(sp?) and Anwar Saddat of Egypt negotiated peace. It garnered the Nobel Peace Prize. And then evil forces murdered Sadat. What a travesty!!! I stopped supporting Israel after this because Israel has always been the antagonist at the Gaza border-- in all honesty!!

[@onqproductions]

I say it’s time for pitchforks and torches

[@10.thbone42]

Pre trumpski...

[@darrenerik7605]

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[@mikefobear589]

Palestinians have never been given access to U.S. media. Israel citizens have never been given access. Americans get the Israeli's Prime minister's view.. Big mistake.

[@DRKrust492]

So, AIPAC is similar to the German American Bund but its issue is ensuring support for Israeli apartheid. Got it.

[@lindawilson8629]

Hello please stop talking get some work done for all the American people on both sides of the fence Democrat and Republicans get the work done everyone come to together as one stay safe have a great day 😎 we are one✌️

[@bizzjoe]

We need Trump back to sort out the mess Biden made

[@57colliegirl]

What a delusion he is......

[@tonysmith952]

Hooray for any group or organization which stands against Demonrats!

[@اختكم.فيالله]

هاذا 👆نمرتي يااخوه الأسلام ارجوكم لاتتجاهلوا رسالتي اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني اختكم من اليمن نازحين انا واسرتي بيننا اجار والان علينا متاخرات حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا يااخي اني اختك يااخي اني في وجه الله ثم في وجهك ثم في وجه امك ثم في وجه ابوك يااخي اني اسالك بالله وكتاب الله يااخي لاتركتني اقسم ب كتاب الله القران الكريم اني مااتكم بهذا الا من حاجه يااخي لو تشوف امي كيف تبكي عليه البكاء من الجوع اللي فيهم اخواتي موتى من الجوع بين البيت كما يعلم الله يااخي أننا من الصباح لحد الآن ماأكلنا شي اني ابوس جزمتك ياخي واني اسالك بالله العظيم وفي كتاب الله ياخي اني ابوس جزمتك يااخي غير علينا غيره ياخي حتي بقيمة كيلو طحين نشتري لاخوني الصغار يااخي ارحم من في الارض يرحمكم من في السماء ارحمنا الله يرحم والديك....

[@coldstonestunners]

Fake news

[@lastalive7403]

@@coldstonestunners Fake comment.

[@coldstonestunners]

@@lastalive7403 fake American

[@yaaghobrahmani4928]

درود بر پریزیدنت دونالد ترامپ باغیرت ترین رئیس جمهور تاریخ آمریکا و امریکا را به شکوه و عظمت رساند زنده باد دونالد ترامپ باغیرت ترین رئیس جمهور تاریخ آمریکا و امریکا را به شکوه و عظمت رساند زنده باد دونالد ترامپ باغیرت و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و قهرمان و