Posted on 10/30/2014 5:55:44 AM PDT by xzins
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's under fire because he won't compromise the safety of Israel.
"When there is pressure on Israel to give up on its security, the easiest thing is to give up," Arutz Sheva quoted Netanyahu's response at the Knesset.
"As prime minister, I stand for the security of Israel," he continued. "The life of every single citizen and soldier matters to me, and I am not prepared to make comprises that will endanger our country."
"Our interests are not on the minds of those who attack us -- or me -- personally," he said. "The attack on me comes because I defend the State of Israel and despite all the attacks, I will continue to defend our country and the citizens of Israel."
He added that he respects and values Israel's relations with the United States.
"The strategic alliance between the countries continues and will continue," he said.
Those were his first public remarks after The Atlantic quoted a senior Obama administration official calling Netanyahu a word that starts with "chicken."
The official told The Atlantic the good thing about Netanyahu was that he was afraid to launch wars, but the bad thing was he won't reach an accommodation with the Palestinian Authority or Sunni Arab states. Another White House official called Netanyahu a coward on a nuclear Iran and said he won't launch a pre-emptive strike.
Israeli Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett called on the Obama administration to "immediately reject these gross comments."
"The prime minister of Israel is not a private person. He is the leader of the Jewish state and the entire Jewish people. Cursing the prime minister and calling him names is an insult not just to him but to the millions of Israeli citizens and Jews across the globe," Bennett wrote.
"The leader of Syria, who slaughtered 150,000 people, was not awarded the name 'chickens---,'" Bennett continued. "Neither was the leader of Saudi Arabia who stones women and homosexuals or the leader of Iran who murders freedom protestors."
"If what appears in the press is true, then it seems that the current U.S. administration is throwing Israel under the bus," Bennett wrote.
"Israel is the only democratic state in the Middle East and has been fighting 66 years to survive," he continued.
"Israel is at the forefront of the free world's fight against the Islamic terror of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. Instead of attacking Israel and putting it at risk, the world should be strengthening and supporting it."
They bought a hoopty because they liked the color and the sound system.
“O” has never recovered from the shock of being ‘elected’ to the US Presidency, the FIRST time!
He is still stunned to the point of shock and stupefied paralysis at his own GOOD LUCK and can’t really believe that he IS the President.
That’s why he doesn’t have a clue about what he’s doing-and routinely looks and acts like a deer in the headlights. (SARC)
I’m trying to be funny here
Right. They have ALL forgotten that they serve at the will of the voters.
Everyone one of them behaves like HE/SHE is doing us a personal favor! They expect our fawning deference for their effort ... even when their ‘effort’ is illicit and incompetent (as it increasingly IS). BS!
They put their own puny and selfish persons before ALL else, AS IF they matter more than any one of us or more than the United States or America!
> Gen 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever
> curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be
> blessed through you.
>
> Obama and Kerry are officially cursed.
This Truth bears repeating.
This is what a real leader looks like! I pray we have one again.
Masada proves nothing other then Rome ruled the ancient world.
Well... he did serve in Vietnam! (Ducking)....
The Koran probably preaches very differently.
Who said it? Who? The media needs to be on this until we know. All the morning shows. ;-)
Obola and the Choom Gang——Netanyahu and elite military service-—it’s clear who the chickensh*t is.
Bibi expresses his true love of his country. Too many of our current crop of leaders don't share this love of country. We have apologists, not leaders.
America is such an embarrassment on the world stage.
Mark Levin went in to a rant over this in which he kept hinting at John Kerry. He used Kerry’s name half a dozen times or more. Was it just a rant or did he have insider info?
Until Levin speaks about it, we’ll not know. But, he’s an important enough player to have had insider info.
Amen! This is another scripture I think many Christians tend to ignore as they pick and choose among the scriptures. What part of this do they not understand? To me it is clearly stated.
But no matter how I feel about the Jews and the nation of Israel, I will honour HIS word. For it seems better to be cursed by man and blessed by G_D then blessed by man and cursed by G_D.
I’m sure Obama, Kerry, and others, along with the lukewarm liberal clergy who preach and support them, will ignore G_D’s word and continue to refuse to aid Israel in it’s time of need.
This scripture applies to nations as well. Therefore, my hope is that G_D will continue to bless Texas and the USA.
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