Posted on 06/30/2014 4:19:50 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
In his final month as Israeli president, scarcely-relevent (leftist) Shimon Peres has given a TV interview were he defended Obama's abandonment of the world's only Jewish state to the hurry-up-and-get-'er-done Iranian nuclear program:
In an interview with Channel 10 ahead of his departure from the Presidents office next month, Peres rejected the notion that Obama was aI dunno, Mr President... how bout an actual good-faith effort keep the
weak president and lauded Obamas efforts to strengthen US-Israeli ties. He said no other American president had been as receptive to Israels security concerns, nor taken as many steps to defend Israel in the international arena.
What has he not done for Israel that was requested of him to do?
Peres asked of Obama.
Peress legacy will be Irans nuclear arsenal.
For years, many Israelis as well as Israels supporters in the US, the Sunni Arab states in the Persian Gulf and even the French have been scratching their heads wondering why Israel hasnt struck Irans nuclear installations yet.
Over the past few months, we received our answer.
The ongoing police investigation into allegedly illegal conduct by then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt.- Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has revealed the source of Israels paralysis.
Apparently led by Peres, the triumvirate of security chiefs serving between 2008 and 2011 ... colluded to undermine Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahus and then-defense minister Ehud Baraks legal authority to order Israels security forces to take action against Iran.
According to a Haaretz report on Wednesday, between 2008 and 2011, the four men leaked plans and discussions of possible Israeli strikes on Iran to the media in order to prevent them from being carried out. The four men opposed an Israeli strike on Irans nuclear installations and stridently rejected any Israeli operation not coordinated with the US.
Ashkenazi and his associates are being investigated by the police for crimes associated with criminal insubordination to Israels elected leadership...
Luckily for Israel, they're about to get a new president on July 27th who actually knows what country he represents (I'm jealous)... hopefully it's
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Peres’ influence is wildly overstated. Netanyahu is simply not the he-man some Americans see. Bibi just didn’t want to go to ‘right-wingers’ for support; he’s a uniter, dontcha know.
Bibi could use a bit more backbone... and Peres has faded to irrelevancy, imho.
But it looks like he committed treason...
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