195 Comments

Wow. TWENTY-FIVE. I, for one am IMPRESSED.

Expand full comment

Well, before, he said he didn't NEED to larn any history of the Middle East to negotiate peace there. Is this learning?

Expand full comment

Found on Twitter.Anyone ever wondered about Republicans and their obsession with Israel!

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Expand full comment

Honestly this deal seems suspiciously bad. Like, deliberately-insulting bad. Manufactured pretext for doing something terrible bad.

Expand full comment

In other news, a harp seal has been dispatched to resolve a conflict between the emperor penguins and a large school of lantern fish.

Expand full comment

I keep expecting Trump to crow about the great boom in American railroad Cattle Car and Modular Delousing Shower industries.

Expand full comment

The Palestinian Corleone family leadership have to ask themselves a question: Do they want to have a state a part of this lucrative drug trade? Do they want to have a better life? If they do, we have created a framework for them to have it and we're going to treat them in a very respectful manner. Probably better in Sicilian.

Expand full comment

There's just something wrong with his face. I can't put my finger on what, exactly. I also love how it's somehow only the Palestinians who are corrupt, when Netanyahu (the Israeli PM, for fuck's sake), has actually been indicted on charges of corruption. It's just 1984, over and over again.

Expand full comment

It's the Evangelicals' fault. They believe they can force Armageddon and the Second Coming (TM) if they push all the Ay-Rabs out of Israel.

Expand full comment

Perhaps it will be if we re-elect 45, but for some reason Bibi keeps getting re-elected. I'm forced to believe that Israelis don't actually want peace.

Expand full comment

Does Kushner read Arabic?

Expand full comment

For that matter, written by anyone other than Israei sympathizers, or US based (and biased) ones... and any by historians or academics familiar with the region (not just the Bible)?

Expand full comment

He's a punk just like Trump.

Expand full comment

One of my gay friends has said that since he dances and dresses like some straight schlub that he's afraid their going to take away his toaster.

Expand full comment

Never any facial hair or beard stubble, for one thing. So he looks like a Ken doll. Also, I can't help but imagine him in an SS uniform.

Expand full comment

Twenty-five books? I'm betting that two of them were "Fun With Dick and Jane" and "Everyone Poops."

Expand full comment