Netanyahoo and OBamba!

Netanyahu, Obama Pushing Panetta to Rush Bunker Busters to Israel

there is no difference between those 2

the idea that Obama is opposing an Israeli attack on Iran is a fraud.  Obama is as eager as netanyahoo.

Obama is Jewish through and through his blue heart

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It's a phrase always used whenever an Israeli politician wants to come over as wittily plain-spoken

to English-speaking audiences - the duck analogy...... ::

Let's be clear -

Israel does not claim the duck analogy as a native Hebrew saying.

It's a phrase that Israel has consciously borrowed from the United States in order to use with English-speaking audiences.

The saying, sometimes referred to as "the duck test" :

was popularised in the US in the first years of the Cold War,

when it was used to describe suspected Communists...........

"I can't prove you are a Communist," :

Emil Mazey of the United Automobile Workers at a labour meeting in 1946.  ::redcard::


"But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet, and associates with ducks -

I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck. "

Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr, US ambassador to Guatemala in 1950 :

"Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farmyard. This bird has no label that says 'duck'.

But the bird certainly looks like a duck,"

"Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck.

Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck.

Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he's wearing a label or not."

To some English speakers, this phrase now sounds firmly stuck in the 1940s and 50s.

But the saying has taken on a second life in Israel -

where it is routinely deployed in statements made to foreign reporters.

"Listen, let's not fool ourselves, OK?"

said Avraham Burg, the speaker of Israel's parliament during negotiations for a two-state solution in July 2000.

"If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, it's a Palestinian state."



                                         

Ehud Barak :

"Yasser Arafat happens to behave like a terrorist, he looks like one, he walks like one, he quacks like one,

so maybe he is really a terrorist "