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Jun 26, 2025
hypocrisy of both
US President Donald Trump dropped his bombshell this morning calling for PM Netanyahu's corruption trials to be dropped. It seems to have left a lot of people unsure of how to proceed. Additionally, news media outlets are now reporting that contact has been made and Trump is talking with President Herzog about a possible pardon or cancelation of the trials. Nobody wants to upset Trump, and there is seemingly a threat of sanctions against people in the judicial system if the trials are not dropped in some way.
This direct and open intervention in the internal affairs of a country by a foreign politician is somewhat unusual (maybe not unusual enough) and is surprising and upsetting.
Right wingers, especially politicians and media personalities, are all screaming about the hypocrites on the Left who were happy enough to involve Biden in the fight against judicial reform are now upset about Trump's intervention. And they are right.
I did see two politicians (maybe there were more but I saw two), Simcha Rothman and Moshe Saad, who called out Trump's intervention as inappropriate, even if they feel the trial should be stopped. So good on them and they are worth noting and commending.
I would note that the right wingers are busy screaming about the left wing hypocrites, but the right wingers are just as much hypocrites as the left wingers. the right wingers were upset about intervention when it was against them whether by sanctions of foreign governments against individuals on the Right, or when Biden or Obama interfered or other times, and now they are happy Trump is intervening on behalf of Netanyahu, while screaming about the other side's hypocrisy.
Basically, most politicians on both the right and the left are hypocrites all too happy to scream about the hypocrisy of the other side while ignoring their own and only care about their own interests and the means to get there dont matter.
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Not necessarily hypocrisy. Remember Clinton interfering in 2000 to get Barak elected? Remember Obama campaigned against Bibi while he was president? Yes, the Right was outraged but neither time did the Left back off and apologize. That means the Right is now saying "Fine, if them's the rules of the game..."
ReplyDeleteExactly. Enough of the double standard.
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