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Josh Shapiro seeks to downplay his time
as IDF volunteer after college op-ed resurfaces

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 8/2/2024 11:57:13 PM

Pennsylvania Governor and potential vice presidential nominee Josh Shapiro tries to distance himself from a recently uncovered op-ed he wrote in college in which he identified as a former volunteer in the IDF and argued that the Palestinians are too “battle-minded” to pursue peace with Israel. “While he was in high school, Josh Shapiro was required to do a service project, which he and several classmates completed through a program that took them to a kibbutz in Israel where he worked on a farm and at a fishery,” Shapiro’s spokesperson Manuel Bonder tells The Times of Israel. “The program also

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 8/3/2024 12:10:17 AM (No. 1771645)
Can we be honest about this? If he wasn't the governor of swing-state PA he wouldn't even be in the conversation. But the Partiya will take their chances.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 8/3/2024 12:43:35 AM (No. 1771649)
So now they have 2 dullards to “remake.”
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Reply 3 - Posted by: john56 8/3/2024 1:09:03 AM (No. 1771657)
By the end of next week, he'll be a Presbyterian and in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NotaBene 8/3/2024 2:01:07 AM (No. 1771663)
Shapiro served the Israeli Defense Forces. No more hyphenated loyalties. And Kamala was raised French Canadian.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mifla 8/3/2024 4:05:09 AM (No. 1771684)
I hope Michigan and Minnesota throw a fit over her picking a Jew. Live by identify politics, die by identity politics.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Lala 8/3/2024 5:39:22 AM (No. 1771717)
I’ll respect him if he doesn’t try to run and hide from this fact. Still wouldn’t vote for him, though.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: crunchycon 8/3/2024 5:44:05 AM (No. 1771718)
How come it’s OK for Dems to “downplay” things they’ve said and done back in the day, but JD Vance has to revisit and re-explain some comment from 2019, or Brett Kavanaugh has to try and remember something that didn’t happen at a college party? Never mind, I know the answer…
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bpl40 8/3/2024 7:03:53 AM (No. 1771747)
It didn't matter that Joe Biden was demented and senile. it did not matter that Kamala is a gravitas challenged, vacuous gibbering nincompoop. Similarly it will not matter that Shapiro is a Jew. It is called anti semitism vaccine. Who it is is immaterial.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 8/3/2024 7:16:39 AM (No. 1771755)
The democrats choosing Shapiro as Kamala's stooge means that Pennsylvania gets rid of him. See, there is some good in everything.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: padiva 8/3/2024 8:21:35 AM (No. 1771785)
His service is a resume enhancer if you are a republican. As a democrat, it's something that needs to be denied.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 8/3/2024 9:51:18 AM (No. 1771813)
One can perform service on an Army base and not be an active member of the military. Shapiro's attempt to downplay even that role shows that he is weak-minded, able to be manipulated, ashamed of his heritage and dishonest, which is no surprise for a democrat. Good luck with your choice Kammy. You will not win Pennsylvania but you will certainly lose your palestinian votes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Philipsonh 8/3/2024 9:53:36 AM (No. 1771816)
Just another lying politician. ANYTHING for power.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Zigrid 8/3/2024 10:24:10 AM (No. 1771828)
First kamala didn't pick Shapiro...obama did because they need Pennsylvania and the jewish vote in New York...he's to be a DEI hire...for his jewish heritage and white face...so he'll be "included" in the installation process at the convention...the rats are so obvious...they never make a move that is not DEI....welcome to their world of power and control....
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Reply 14 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/3/2024 10:25:44 AM (No. 1771829)
Josh is a very unlikeable person. He will be a ignorant bulldog for Kamala.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: lana720 8/3/2024 12:23:39 PM (No. 1771898)
Dems get more exercise evolving than a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: JimBob 8/3/2024 12:45:44 PM (No. 1771907)
Journ-O-List orders to the Lamestreams: "Don't let the Muzzies know about this! It'll cost us Michigan at a minimum, and those 'Religion of Peace' thugs get violent at the slightest excuse! If they DO find out and go off on us, remember, it's a 'Mostly Peaceful' event...... and figure out some way to blame it on Trump or HillBilly Vance!"
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Reply 17 - Posted by: thomthomp 8/3/2024 1:27:13 PM (No. 1771933)
Seems like he had the Palestinians pegged when he was 20.
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