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LA County Supervisors OK resolution in support of Israel

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[Screenshot from video of the LACo Supervisors meeting on Oct. 17, 2023]
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors weighed in Tuesday, Oct. 17, on the conflict in the Middle East, unanimously supporting a resolution in support of Israel and condemning terrorist acts of Hamas — though the board heard an earful from dozens of residents who blasted the action as supporting what they called an Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians.

The resolution adopted by the board states that the county “unequivocally condemns Hamas for this deplorable and unprovoked attack on the State of Israel.” It goes on to state that the county “unequivocally supports the right of the State of Israel to exist as a sovereign and independent nation with full recognition of its borders and territory.”

Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who introduced the motion and resolution with Supervisor Kathryn Barger, said the county is committed to opposing “hatred in all its forms,” noting that violence in the Middle East often translates into acts of violence and antisemitism in other parts of the world.

“We know every Jewish person in Los Angeles has a close personal connection to someone affected by this terrorism by Hamas,” Horvath said. “It may be a family member, a friend, a business colleague, a friend of a friend who has either been taken hostage, murdered by Hamas, or who has been called up to the Israeli defense reserves, or has been hiding in fear. …”

“We stand in solidarity with you,” Horvath said, adding, “I pray for a resolution that brings justice and peace to the region.”

Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles Israel Bachar spoke at the meeting, thanking the board for the resolution of solidarity, saying the country is coping with “the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and the images of this massacre certainly echo ghosts of the past.”

“We are devastated but we are determined. In 1939 we couldn’t defend ourselves. In 2023, we can and we will,” Bachar said.

“Let me be clear, this is not about territory. This is about terrorism,” Bachar added. “… Stay strong with us. Stay the course. America and Israel are not just allies, we are family. As allies and as a family we start with a basic understanding that terrorism is a global threat. Hamas has no borders or boundaries. It affects us all. Standing by Israel now is literally defending the security of America, including right here in L.A. County.”

Dozens of public speakers, however, slammed the board for even considering the resolution, calling it a “one-sided” document that makes no mention of the Palestinian people or the number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli bombings launched in response to the Hamas terror attacks.

We “refuse to let our grief (over the Hamas attacks) to be weaponized to justify the murder of Palestinians,” one caller told the board during a roughly two-hour public-comment period, echoing remarks of many others who accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” of Palestinians under the guise of targeting terrorism.

Several speakers noted that, during the board’s public hearing on the resolution, news broke about an air strike on a Gaza City hospital, which local authorities said killed hundreds of people. Israeli officials later denied involvement in the hospital bombing. Multiple speakers said the resolution essentially supports a “blank check” for Israel to carry out unfettered violence against innocent Palestinian people. They urged the board to reject the resolution and instead call for a cease fire and an end to violence against all people in the region.

“We have to value the innocent lives of both Palestinians and Israelis,” one speaker said.

Following the public hearing, Supervisor Holly Mitchell said still supported the original resolution, but said she will introduce a separate motion later in the meeting calling for an immediate de-escalation of military activity in the region and the entry of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip.

Her comments did little to appease opponents in the audience, who began shouting at the board, which was forced to take a recess while deputies restored order in the meeting room. When the board reconvened, it quickly approved the Israel resolution, prompting more shouting by a woman in the audience and leading the board to again recess the meeting.

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36 comments for "LA County Supervisors OK resolution in support of Israel"

    • Wrong again. Gaza will be rubble and craters. The people will be killed because Hamas does not value their lives. The tunnels will be flooded and Hamas will die like rats. You are ignorant and he Palestinians are perennial losers.

    • I support both Israel and Palenstinian people. I reject Hamas. They used millions of dollars to build sophisticated tunnels and weapons rather than making life better for their people. Hamas is as evil as Stalin, Hitler, and oppressive and North Korea, Cuba and China. I hope the Palestinian people elect real leaders who care about them.

  2. From the river to the sea, the Jews will set it free. The Palestinians can go to Jordan (or hell).

  3. THOSE SEEKING A TWO STATE SOLUTION IN ISRAEL –

    DO SO IN COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF RELIGION –

    IGNORING THAT JERUSALEM NOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT CANNOT BE SPLIT UP –

    CONQUERING MUSLIMS TRIED TO COMPLETELY WIPE OUT THE JEWISH TEMPLE –

    BY DESTROYING THE TEMPLE AND LEAVING ONLY THE SACRED TO JEW’S SACRED WESTERN WALL OF THAT TEMPLE –

    MUSLIMS HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF DESTROYING OTHER RELIGION’S CHURCHES TO REPLACE THEM WITH THEIR MOSQUES –

    MUSLIMS BUILT THEIR AL-AQSA MOSQUE AND SHRINE RIGHT ON TOP OF WHERE THAT TEMPLE WAS –

    CLAIMING THAT THEIR PROPHET MOHAMMED DREAMED HE ASCENDED TO PARADISE ON A HORSE FROM THE VERY SPOT ON THE DOME OF THE ROCK THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE NOW OCCUPIES –

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    THERE HAVE BEEN MANY TIMES WHERE WORSHIPERS AT THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE STORED UP LARGE TONES TO HURL DOWN ON PRAYING JEWS –

    JEWS ARE HEAVILY RESTRICTED FROM PRAYING ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT ITSELF NEAR THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE –

    THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE THIRD MOST HOLY SPOT BEHIND ONLY MECCA AND MEDINA –

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    THE STUPID TWO STATE SOLUTION WILL NEVER CUT UP AND FAIRLY DIVIDE THE TEMPLE MOUNT BECAUSE THE JEWS MUST RE-BUILD THEIR TEMPLE –

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    THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE OR THE JEWISH TEMPLE WOULD HAVE TO BE REMOVED –

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    THIS WILL NEVER WILLINGLY HAPPEN –

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    • Don’t forget that it is a Christian holy site as well. When I was in the navy we had a practical solution to this problem. Dust the entire area with large quantities of granular Cobalt-60, and anyone that wants to go to their holy site gets quick access to meeting the god of their choice. In 25 years when the cobalt has decayed away if there’s still a problem dust it again.

      • Wow! Mr anti cop, anti gun, anti order, comes up with a comment like that. Oh yeah I forgot he used to slip threatening notes to young female bank tellers.

    • I agree with you ACE, that is the third holiest site for Muslims but the holiest site for both Christian’s and Jews. The Palestinians could have declared independence just like Israel in 1948 but chose to attack instead. Let alone the Israelis could’ve kept the Sinai and all of the Golon Heights but gave it back. If they still had the Sinai today Egyptians would have there own Palestinian issue.

      • LOL…funny how you are actually agreeing with me, but you are in such a “see red” snit that you don’t even see it.

    • What you spew is non-Christian. Christ would never have endorsed your approach. He died for your sins, and you fail to honor him through your angry vocalization of death.

      Christians ALSO have a long history of going astray. The Inquisition, for example.

      Spewed hatred like what you have written leads otherwise good people down the wrong path.

      Then, letting politicians get away with blaming their power games on religious zealots who have gone astray is just another repeat of the Crucifixion. You would hope that with Christmas and Passover on the way that people would come to their senses.

      There is always the 6th commandment, in case you need a refresher.

  5. Why is Los Angeles County taking a side and sticking its nose in international issues that do not concern it?

    • The Board of Supervisors is one of the most useless government bodies in existence. Always making up “resolutions” to make themselves feel better or feel virtuous, but which 99.5% of the actual population of LA County has no use for and could care less about.

    • BECAUSE THEY ARE FIVE SILLY WOMEN –

      WHO WHEN CONFRONTED WITH AN UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM –

      RESORT TO THEIR COMMON RETORT –

      “WELL … WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING..!”

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    • It’s called Virtue Signaling. All the cool liberals are doing it. It makes them feel important and helps them overcome their white guilt while improving their social credit score.
      A month from now they’ll be virtue signaling on something else that has absolutely nothing to do with themselves.

      • For Rent:
        Room in small deserted area of Mike’s brain.

        Liberals can stay “rent free” as long as they continue to bug Mike, from any distance, near or far.

        Must be willing to tolerate occasional outbursts of angry release, or nonsensical political rhetoric. Mental health caregiver experience a necessity.

    • …just following out United States Congress on a path it strode as the very first order of business once the majority party (Repugnicans) decided upon the next sacrificial lamb (Mike “Literal Bible” Johnson) to be slaughtered – soon – at the hands of right wing political zealots who grasp the gonads of the Republican party.

    • When have the Palestinians ever lived in peace with anyone. There were plenty of neighbors prior to the Israeli’s, That the Palestinians have butchered, raped, kidnapped and killed.

      • Agree. That’s the bottom line. The dumb sh!t$ like living in rubble and craters. They could live like humans but it’s not in their character.

  8. @Liberalism is a disease.

    Wow, nutjob. The Palestinian protests as disgusting as they are don’t compare with the PROUD BOYS AND OATH KEEPERS DEFILING THE CAPITAL. They were Trump’s and your people.

    You are always on the wrong side of everything, aren’t you? You should have been sent to the Capital to clean up after them and their poop.

    • Palestinians could’ve declared independence in 1948 just like Israel, but chose war instead.

        • Wrong! They were afforded the same mandate and own boundaries in 1947 they could have created there own nation at that time just like the Israeli’s, but its not about a nation it’s about religion and hate.

          • Considering how great it worked out for Native Americans it’s surprising the Palestinians didn’t leap at the chance to be displaced from their homes and ushered out into their own little patch of desert.

            Oh.

            Wait.

            Yeah, not really surprising.

    • I forgot about the Israelis who protested in the tens of thousands for many weeks against their Rising Autocrat, Netanyahu, against this efforts to nobble the Supreme Court there.

      How has that strife suddenly been forgotten here in the US?

  9. Come on!
    Where is all the ‘wrong side of everything’ liberals? Chime in.

    Or are you too busy at the pro Palestine protests?