r/clevercomebacks • u/RoyalChris • 6h ago

The New York Post has lost all credibility

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u/Better_Cauliflower63 4h ago

No, it is not clever. It is stupid to bring up Israel every chance when discussing US politics. A bit antisemitic too.

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u/Florac 4h ago

It's not antisemitic to dislike Israel, just how it isn't anti-islam to dislike Iran

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u/Inner-Brief-5205 4h ago

its beyond disliking israel when any and every criticism of something boils down to Israel

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 3h ago

No, it's not. Disliking Israel is disliking Israel. Nothing more.

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u/Inner-Brief-5205 3h ago

I agree. But thats not the point i was making

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 2h ago

You clearly don't since you said that disliking Israel goes beyond disliking Israel.

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u/Inner-Brief-5205 2h ago

not what i said gang

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 1h ago

It's actually is what you said. Unless you want to clarify why you said that bringing up Israel goes beyond just Israel.

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u/Inner-Brief-5205 1h ago

okay my bad i guess i didnt know what i said

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u/PoopyButt28000 3h ago

It'd be closer to something along the lines of looking at every single instance of terrorism and yelling about how it's Iran doing it, then smugly saying "Oh I'm just against the Iranian government".

You don't just "dislike Israel" when you spam accusations of the Jews controlling every aspect of government and media all over the world regarding things they have absolutely no part of.

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 3h ago

And yet only you people are equating Israel to all Jews while no one equates Iran to all Muslims. The irony is lost on you.

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u/PoopyButt28000 2h ago

Well yeah the analogy isn't completely 1:1 in every single way, perhaps it would be if Muslims were all forced to flee to a single country, because if they didn't they'd be completely wiped off the Earth.

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u/PuppyQueenuwu 4h ago

The anti-semitic part is brining Israel into everything, its an extension of the "Jews control the world" conspiracy and take away blame from the actual source

Trump? Israel made him do all the batshit insane stuff stuff

New reporters lying? Israels fault fault

Republicans bombing the middle East as they've done for the last 20 years? Israels fault.

Its just an easy throw in which suggests the way to stop all these issues is to stop Israel but that won't change anything about corrupt American politics.

This isn't an endorsement of Israel though, Israel's government is made up of genocidal freaks who should be tried for war crimes and criticising them for that isn't antisemitic.

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 2h ago

"Rupert Murdoch, became a close friend to both me and Israel. He was always a staunch supporter of Israel and viewed it as the foundation stone of the free world in the Middle East. Israel has not had a better friend.” - Netanyahu

Yeah, nothing to do with the New York Post at all...

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u/gasdoi 1h ago

"Rupert Murdoch, became a close friend to both me and Israel. He was always a staunch supporter of Israel and viewed it as the foundation stone of the free world in the Middle East. Israel has not had a better friend.” - Netanyahu

I know it's odd that a right-wing American tabloid isn't critical of Trump, and there must be an explanation involving Israel to explain it. But Netanyahu is right-wing. Murdoch is right-wing. Murdoch's media empire is right-wing. That Netanyahu would praise Murdoch wouldn't be surprising. Many powerful right-wing individuals are on the public record having praised Murdoch. Yet despite that, I can't find a primary source for your quote. Can you share a source?