Speaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quit unless pro-Pales

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  1. Zorro

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    You seem to think a proportionate response is for Israel to go rape, murder, and slaughter as many Gazans as Gazans slaughtered and raped Jews. That's not what is meant by a proportionate response.

    A proportionate response is one that makes the attacker decide that attacking you again is not worth the repercussions. This has yet to be achieved. Gaza is still launching rockets and holding hostages.

    For example, Israel's missile response to Iran seems to have done the trick. Once Israel demonstrated how easily and quickly they could take out the air defense that Iran thought would protect their nuclear program from air attack, Iran shows no more interest in sending drones and missiles against Israel.

    Israel hasn't finished the job in Gaza, and I think they would be fools to leave it undone. They need to pacify every square inch of Gaza and bring every last terrorist to justice.

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    “Be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life, and I *hope* to keep it that way.” This is a top leader of
    @Columbia
    ’s encampment, with whom the school is “negotiating,” expanding on his thoughts about how Israel supporters “don’t deserve to live.”''

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    Normally it is, frankly, just look at Israel and Iran. It's hugely helpful that the US helped the Iran attack to fail, because then it helped prevent tit for tat escalation. Iran was able to be dismissive of Israel's next counterattack, because it was small and mild, and the cycle was disrupted. This would not have sufficed if Iran's attack had been more successful.

    Stopping future attacks is more about imposing a cost on any enemy who attacks you to deter them. Proportionate response isn't really the goal of Israel as stated. Eradication is the goal. They say of Hamas, but their actions suggest it's more than Hamas.

    It's a convenient excuse for ethnic cleansing. Short of that, their actions so far would have created more terrorists than it killed. It still probably would even with a fully successful ethnic cleansing, just outside of gaza. And note I said ethnic cleansing. This is not the same thing as genocide.

    Yep, some people go over the line from passionate to just crazy.
     
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    Speaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quit unless pro-Pales

    Yes and rudeness appears to become more popular in America by the day.
     
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    Thats not just some people. Thats one of the 4 leaders of "Columbia United Apartheid Divest". The most prominent spokesperson for the group negotiating with the Columbia administration. They wholeheartedly support the actions of Hamas on Oct 7, proclaiming that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” He probably represents the typical views of the students protesting.
     
  5. Zorro

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    Looks like Speaker Johnson was onto something:

    STANDING UP TO HATRED AND BIGOTRY: 13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’.

    'The letter marks a new front in the hellish public relations war that has consumed Columbia and cost it major donor capital. As the encampment drew throngs of outsiders to the university’s doorstep—some of whom promised daily repeats of the Oct. 7 attacks—pressure mounted on Shafik, the university’s president, to lay down the law.'

    'She did not do so until April 30, after nearly 5,000 alumni signed a petition demanding that the police clear Hamilton Hall. In the interim, Columbia lost one of its most prominent patrons, Robert Kraft, who said he could not in good conscience donate to a school awash in “virulent hate.” Billionaires Leon Cooperman and Henry Swieca have also cut ties with the university.'

    Columbia Faculty Group Goes on Strike in Solidarity With Anti-Israel Student Protesters.
     
  6. Bill Carson

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    Mike Johnson continues his clown show speech tour this morning. I think he forgot his job description.
     

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