Posted on 02/01/2015 5:40:38 AM PST by Dave346
Three consecutive events, initiated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, make it clear that hidden within the campaign propaganda are genuine threats to Israel’s security and standing.
The assumption that the killing on the Golan Heights of the senior Hezbollah figures and the Iranian general, which has been attributed to Israel, was necessary is not convincing. Israel has already suffered lethal retaliation, in which two soldiers were killed. It would have been possible to accept the claim, by senior officers and by cabinet ministers, according to which no political considerations were behind the operation, had it had coincided with the growing disagreement with the United States over Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Moreover, Israel’s friends, both Republicans and Democrat, viewed Netanyahu’s visit as a diplomatic “terror attack” whose purpose was more to bypass their president than just another effort to warn against the Iranian threat. The result is that Israel’s ability to influence the international community in general and the Americans in particular has fallen victim to the marketing strategy aimed at heightening Netanyahu’s electoral charm.
And before the storm passed the government decided to throw another firebomb onto relations with the United States and Europe, publishing on Friday tenders for 450 new homes in the settlements. Some may be repeat tenders, but the timing of their publication was no coincidence. They could have waited another six weeks, but then they would not have served Netanyahu’s election campaign.
Netanyahu is removing all the brakes that guided him in office, cruising at full throttle in an election race in which Israel’s interests are considered marginal compared to his lust for victory.
Netanyahu has become a ticking cluster bomb, discharging its lethal load at timed intervals and destroying the remains of Israel’s standing in the world.
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Election is still over 6 weeks away.
Who writes the Haaretz Editorial Board’s stuff? Jonathan Gruber?
Wow, it sounds like our press going after a conservative. Go Bibi, and God Bless Israel!
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Israel’s answer to Salon.com? A far left nirvana for crazy people?
It is safe to be a distructive Jew(vote liberal) in a far away land, like NYNY. But being one when surrounded by savages in Israel? Nuts.
Wow! Sounds like Bibi is doing his job when Haaretz melts down like that. A case of Tums was recently delivered to their editorial staff.
Lefties in Israel should be daily thanking the IDF for their freedom to live & kvetch. Instead they publish this garbage.
Netanyahu seems unstoppable according to these goofy-tooths.
That’s good, considering the source.
They sound like the same liberal bed wetters we have here in the United States.
I can only offer that Haaretz is more of a genuine threat to Israel’s security and standing than Bibi.
Haaretz wants to be the last Jews gassed.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Ha'aertz is in as much of a tizzy as Pelosi.
A. It wouldn't look like anything because it wouldn't exist.
“Who writes the Haaretz Editorial Board’s stuff? Jonathan Gruber?”
Haaretz said = “Also Sprach Das OffenJuden.”
The Haartetz socialists just can’t seem to understand(or won’t accept) what the “Socialist” in the “National Socialist Party” of the Third Reich meant.
I guess “Haaretz” is “New York Times” in Hebrew?
If Israel goes America goes with her as the United States would then no longer be worthy of, nor worth shit.
Barry’s campaign staff must have taken over the paper.
Yep, that’s why I always go to Arutz Sheva to get news for Israel; Haaretz always did have a severely leftist slant, even a long time ago when I jumped on various Israel news sites to find out what was going on.
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