Posted on 01/20/2012 2:09:42 PM PST by Nachum
The Jewish Week reports that a speech last week by Stuart Appelbaum, president of the left-wing Jewish Labor Committee, prompted Israel’s deputy consul general to walk out of its gala dinner after Appelbaum criticized Israel in blunt, undiplomatic terms.
Though Appelbaum also noted “new expressions of contempt for Israel within the Arab world,” he launched a vitriolic attack on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu:
…[S]adly, Israel is cursed with a right-wing coalition government that’s regularly giving credence to it.
We all know Benjamin Netanyahu talks a good game about a two-state solution, but, at the very same time, his administration continues to shamelessly promote the construction of illegal settlements on the West Bank – a policy that no severely impedes negotiations… Netanyahu’s right-wing supporters in this country have pulled out the stops to slander the president as some kind of enemy of Israel. They hope that if they repeat that lie long and loud enough that some Jews might actually fall for it … enough, maybe, to flip Florida against President Obama this fall. Who would they replace him with? Maybe a guy like Rick Santorum – a man who said that allowing Palestinians to have their own country on the West Bank would be like the U.S. giving Texas back to Mexico. [Which, come to think of it, may not be that bad of an idea.]
No diplomat could have been expected to sit through such false, vicious, and partisan attacks. Settlements are not the obstacle to peace between Israel and the Arab world, and the Israeli government is not building new ones anyway. Furthermore, Netanyahu’s repeated offers to negotiate have been rebuffed by a hostile and bitterly divided Palestinian government.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigpeace.com ...
“We all know Benjamin Netanyahu talks a good game...”
And we all know that leftists talk gibberish. How could a construction, on which there is a permit, on a land, on which builder has a deed be illegal? What’s legal then? Another issue - should Jews be restricted to where they can live and build or not? We all know that...
Too bad Netanyahu cannot be our POTUS !
I think when Bibi was in the IDF he did a fair bit more than talk a good game. I wonder what this flunkie Appelbaum ever did besides nothing.
“Too bad Netanyahu cannot be our POTUS !”
I believe one or both of his parents was a US citizen. He grew up in Pittsburg.
He’s more a NBC than Obama.
Philly. (or near it)
ML/NJ
“I think when Bibi was in the IDF he did a fair bit more than talk a good game.”
That’s for sure. The Netanyahu’s DEFINED the word COURAGE.
From Wiki
“After graduating from high school in 1967, Netanyahu returned to Israel to enlist in the IDF. He trained as a combat soldier and became a team leader in an elite special forces unit of the IDF, Sayeret Matkal. He was involved in many missions, including the rescue of the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in May 1972 in which he was wounded by friendly fire.[12] During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he fought in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then led a commando team deep into Syrian territory.”
This is Bibi’s brother (to give an idea of who this family is...one of the bravest ever):
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu";
To leftists, peace means surrender.
I’ll pass on that kind of peace.
Blaming BiBi for the Arab blood lust, is like blaming Bush and Israel for 911. Everything is up-side-down. Typical leftist.
Watch them blame the “conservative” BiBi when Obama’s Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cancels the treaty with Israel and attacks. If everything was controlled by Jewish leftist and their pals, we would have total utopia - finally! /s/
Funny. He claims Pittsburg.
That is the same US state, correct?
Opposite ends of the same state - but they make them states small out East. ;)
Yes, the same State: Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania is pretty big. Pittsburgh is in the western part of the State, and Philadelphia in the east about 500 km away. Wikipedia says:
Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv to Zila (née Segal) (1912–2000) and professor Benzion Netanyahu (b. 1910 in Warsaw, Poland), the middle child of three children. He was initially raised and educated in Jerusalem. Between 1956 and 1958, and again in 1963–67, his family lived in the United States in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended and graduated from the Cheltenham High School and was active in a debate club. To this day, he speaks American English with a Philadelphia accent.I'm pretty sure Mark Levin also went to Cheltenham High School as did my across-the-street neighbor of 25 years.
ML/NJ
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