Thread: Jack Ass of the Week ?

I have two Jack Asses this week. The first one is J. Bidden. He looked like the biggest Jack Ass in the political circus this week. No one is going to tell me that Israel did not do this on purpose. The correct answer from him would have been to cancel the trip and go back home....like a good little puppy ahemm puppet.

US Vice President Joe Biden left Nentanjahu "hanging" for no less than an hour and a half, as the latter, along with his wife Sara, were waiting for him at the dinner table.

The sole explanation for such extreme tardiness in American diplomacy is that it was an expression of discontent over the Ministry of Interior's approval of 1,600 new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem earlier Tuesday – and the harsh condemnation that followed.

Instead of embracing Mr Biden, Israel showed him the finger, choosing the very day of his visit to announce the construction of 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. That counts as an in-your-face insult to a US administration that has demanded Israel freeze all settlement activity in the territories conquered in 1967, which include East Jerusalem. Little wonder that President Obama was said to be "incandescent with anger", spending 90 minutes on the phone to his deputy drafting a statement of condemnation rare for its ferocity.
The Israeli press has been full of conflicting explanations for this extraordinary behaviour. Some suggest Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, was a fool, haplessly unaware that a lower-level planning committee was about to make the move. Others wonder if Mr Netanyahu was a knave, seeing some perverse value in advertising Israel's defiance, demonstrating to the world that it can, in the words of one senior European official, "put sticks in the Americans' eyes" and get away with it. As one Israeli commentator has put it, neither of these possible explanations are very attractive: they are like choosing between plague and cholera.

What do you call a female jack ass ? Jack-Jenny ? Well anyway, Hillary got to be the biggest ass for preaching human rights to Europeans. We tell muslims not to build minaretes and they lock them up without a trial.
Especiall Hillary being a woman (maybe not ?) I wish she would have denounced the biggest "Female Prison in the World" ......Saudi Arabia.

In reviewing the report with reporters, Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, emphasized traditional black spots in the annual report – like China, Iran, and Cuba. In Iran, he noted, an “already poor human rights condition … deteriorated after the June [presidential] elections.”In particular, the report notes measures the Iranian regime is taking to try to restrict the flow of information that has kept the world abreast of post-election demonstrations and repression.
But it also notes what the US sees as disturbing trends among some close American allies – for example, mounting cases of discrimination against Muslims in Western Europe. In that vein, Mr. Posner cited the recent referendum in Switzerland banning construction of minarets.
In her remarks, Secretary Clinton deemed the country reports a “tool” for “effective and practical human rights strategies” in US policy, adding that the United States will balance pressure and incentives in a pragmatic approach that does not compromise its principles.
But that focus on pragmatism – which some foreign policy experts see as “realpolitik” in the Obama administration’s dealings with the rights violations of countries ranging from China and Russia to Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia – has drawn criticism from some human rights organizations and experts.

US human rights report: Hillary Clinton says technology advances aid activists, oppressors / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com