Bibi Makes His Case

RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program we had sound bites of Benjamin Netanyahu and Megyn Kelly last night, and I want to get to those now. This was Netanyahu's first appearance on American media after his election victory and after the Regime went after him as a racist for daring to turn out his base, after the Regime had made a big pitch to Arab Israelis to show up in droves to try to knock Netanyahu off. So Megyn Kelly, first question: "In 2009 you said that you supported a peace deal that would recognize a Palestinian state, but the day before Tuesday's election you completely reversed and said you didn't. Why?"

NETANYAHU: I didn't retract any of the things that I said. The conditions for that today are not achievable for a simple reason. Abu Mazen, the leader of the Palestinians, rejects consistently the acceptance of a Jewish State. He's made a pact with the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. And the conditions in the Middle East have changed to the point where any territory you withdraw from is immediately taken out by Iranian backed terrorists or by ISIS. It's only a dozen miles away from us. We would vacate territory instead of getting a two-state solution, we could end up with a no state solution. That is a solution that would threaten the very survival of the state of Israel. I said we have to change the terms.

RUSH: So he's basically saying he didn't change anything. He didn't change his opinion. He had never been in favor of a two-state solution as it has been discussed. He was always talking about in the context of today, meaning the present. And he's right here in pointing out, there is no desire for a two-state solution by the Palestinians. Abu Mazen, Hamas, you name it, and everybody knows it. Nobody on that side wants Israel to exist side by side with a Palestinian state.

When they talk two-state solution, they're talking one state, and that's Palestine, and Israel is erased from the map. That's what they want. Well, who's ever gonna negotiate that? That is something the Palestinians are gonna have to win militarily. If they want that, if they want the map to no longer say "Israel," if they want the borders of Israel to now say "Palestine," they're gonna have to mount a military campaign. They're gonna have to defeat Israel and, as the terms of surrender, they're gonna have to get the Jews that live in Israel to somehow move out and go somewhere else.

That is never gonna happen in talks. That is never gonna happen diplomatically. That is never gonna happen via UN resolution. It's never gonna happen because "Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!" wants it to happen. The only way that can happen is if the Palestinians and their allies -- hello, Iranians with the nuclear bomb -- can figure out a way to militarily defeat Israel.

Now, the thing is, nobody in that region has ever been able to do it yet. Everybody that's attacked Israel has paid the price. They have lost. And Israel has claimed territory from the attackers. And then after a while, it's always been determined it was unfair for Israel to take that land. They said, "Well, wait a minute now, we were minding our own business and they attacked us. We took that land to make sure they couldn't use it to mount further attacks."

"Well, you gotta give it back," Israel was told. "You gotta give it back, you've gotta be fair." So they've given back much of the land they conquered after having been attacked. Nobody's beat them and that's what's gonna have to happen. And Netanyahu knows this. There's no way anybody's gonna come along and negotiate a settlement and convince anybody who's leading Israel to agree to erase the word from the map, get rid of the boundary lines and have the population move somewhere else. Not gonna happen. It's in people's dreams, if it is. And that's all he's pointing out.

RUSH: Okay. Here's Netanyahu's answer. Megyn Kelly's question: "Okay, look, some people said it was racist when you urged your base to come out and vote because the Arab-Israeli turnout was so high. The White House came out and said that you were divisive, and you tried to marginalize Arab Israelis. Do you regret those comments, Prime Minister Netanyahu?"

NETANYAHU: That's just not true, because what I said should be taken in the larger context. I wasn't trying to suppress a vote. I was trying to get out my vote against those who were targeting -- foreign money that was coming in to target a specific group to bring down my --

NETANYAHU: The answer is yes. I wasn't talking about that. I called on Arab supporters of Likud, I said, "Look, there's gonna be this effort, foreign-funded effort to get the votes for that parties, and I want you to be ready for that and get out the vote when that happens." That's what I was referring to, and you'd be surprised, we got a lot of Arab votes. I'd like to have more, but I consider myself as the prime minister of all Israelis, those who voted for me and those who didn't vote for me, Arabs, Jews.

RUSH: Let me tell you what he's talking about here. He's talking about Obama. American money and an Obama campaign team was in there to gin up turnout against Netanyahu. All he did was respond to it by trying to gin up his own turnout, his own base, which includes some Arab votes. And for this he was called racist. And for this he was accused of marginalizing the Israeli Arab vote, when in fact, if anybody was trying to marginalize anybody it's Barack Obama trying to marginalize Bibi.

The American president was trying to secure the defeat of the Israeli prime minister. And he failed. He failed to do it because finally somebody stood up to Obama and his tactics, something we're not used to in this country, but Netanyahu does it repeatedly. He's invited to speak to Congress, he does it, and he hammers Obama and takes it to him. When Obama sent a campaign team and American money to defeat him, Netanyahu stood up and said, here's a dose of your own medicine. He beats Obama every time he takes him on, so of course they're gonna call him a racist. Obama's just not used to people actually standing up to him. That's all that happened here.

BIG lesson in all this for Republicans here. Unapologetic conservatism can win. The polls will lie and media will be confused.

It’s all about turnout.

Motivated base of voters (like blacks with Obama) can swing an election.

>>The polls will lie and media will be confused<<

Hardly confused, they are propaganda mills.

Too many people are “confusing the issue” over the TWO-STATE SOLUTION.

The fact of the matter is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has supported the TWO-STATE SOLUTION all along, per his Bar-Ilan speech, outlining his policy. It takes into consideration the security of Israel, too. Netanyahu has referred to this policy speech - specifically - and after his election. He says his position has not changed.

Here’s the policy that Netanyahu has for supporting a TWO-STATE SOLUTION ...

Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University [Relates to Netanyahu’s Re-election]
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