FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!
Posted on 02/25/2015 9:35:51 AM PST by Dave346
PM says from the emerging nuclear agreement "it appears [world powers] have given up" on their commitment regarding Iran.
As criticism both in Israel and the US of his planned speech to Congress continues to mount, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed the debate over Iran in stark life-and-death terms on Wednesday.
“I respect the White House and the US President,” he said of the friction his decision to address Congress has triggered, “but on a matter so fateful that it could determine whether we exist or not, my obligation is do everything to prevent such a great danger to the State of Israel.
Speaking to a a Likud gathering in Ma'ale Adumim, Netanyahu – after addressing the comptroller's report about housing – said that the biggest threat to life in Israel and to the state is an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
“We have many reasons to worry about the agreement that is being formulated now,” he said. “The world powers committed themselves to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, but from the emerging accord it appears that they have given up on that commitment and have come to accept the idea of Iran -- gradually over the years -- developing the ability to make the fissile material needed for many nuclear bombs.”
While the world may have come to accept this notion, he said, “We have not.”
Netanyahu said it was his responsibility as Israel’s leader to do everything he could to warn of the dangers and to oppose the deal.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Office declined to comment on a number of issues related to the speech, including US National Security Advisor Susan Rice's comment Tuesday that the speech was “destructive” to the Israel-US relationship, as well as Virginia Senator Tim Kaine announcing that he won’t the address.
The PMO also did not relate to the report that Ambassador Ron Dermer asked the ambassadors of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates to attend the address, and that they declined.
Regarding reports that Netanyahu’s own National Security Advisor Yossi Cohen was opposed to the speech, Cohen issued a rare statement saying, "In total contrast to what was published I am not opposed to Prime Minister Netanyahu's Congressional speech. In my opinion, the speech is imperative at this time in order to explain why the emerging deal between Iran and the P5+1 is dangerous for Israel and the world." Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, meanwhile, said that Iran was standing behind all those who fight Israel – Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad – and “therefore the agreement emerging now is not good for us.”
On a tour of the northern border, Liberman called for the security cabinet to be convened and for Israel to make decisions regarding the agreement. He did not elaborate.
Without relating directly to Netanyahu's address, he said that Israel needed to oppose the agreement, but do so in a way that would not harm the relationship with Washington.
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Val JarJar’s plan for Iran’s supremacy is slowly coming to fruition. I’m so sorry for our (former) ‘Allies’ in Europe and the Middle East. We have failed them, BIG TIME!
Netanyahu is standing firm, as he must. Israel is fortunate to have such a leader at this time in history.
Mr. Netanyahu, it’s much worse than that.
The west has become Evil.
Europe has also failed Europe. Bigger than we ever did. Makes me sick what they’ve done to themselves and their own peoples.
It should be obvious to Netanyahu that the military option has been taken off the table for the remainder of Obama’s 2 yr term. Unless Israel steps up to the plate itself and takes care of the problem, Iran will be part of the nuclear club with a deliverable warhead within 3-5 years. Does Bibi have the domestic support to go it alone?
All hell will break lose when Israel takes out Iran’s nukes. The US and Europeans have left no other option now.
The Jews are not going to serve as Islam’s holocaust victims. I don’t think even the Left in Israel will let Iran with nukes happen, although they would gladly meet O’Demon’s territory demands.
At this point, and probably for a long time, the only way to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons is for the “Iranian on the street” to reject them entirely. And the only way for this to happen is for the Iranian on the street to be so traumatized by the horror of nuclear anything that they cannot abide it anywhere around them.
To put it bluntly, Israel needs to cause a nuclear disaster in Iran, attributable to the Iranian nuclear program.
Tens of thousands of Iranians will die because of this, but only because the world, and Israel, twiddled its thumbs while the problem became worse. So now the price is tens of thousands. Tomorrow the price will rise into the millions if they cannot bring themselves to act.
Most likely they will continue to screw around until there is a medium sized nuclear war in the Middle East, where tens of millions die. For the singular reason that men should have acted but did not.
"I respect the White House and the US President," he said of the friction his decision to address Congress has triggered, "but on a matter so fateful that it could determine whether we exist or not, my obligation is do everything to prevent such a great danger to the State of Israel." ...While the world may have come to accept this notion, he said, "We have not."
So liberal elite so-called Americans were lying about this too? What a surprise.../s
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Yes, the west appears to have done that.
Of course the West can be trusted to keep its promises! Just ask Ukraine.
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