Posted on 03/03/2015 10:34:45 AM PST by Jim Robinson
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the State of Israel reset the agenda for the Western world in a speech before a joint session of Congress.
For weeks, the Obama administration has attempted to direct attention away from Netanyahu’s actual agenda – stopping the Iranian nuclear deal – and toward petty political maneuvering over permissions to speak and Democratic boycotts. All of that fell away in the wake of a clear, powerful, and emotional call by Netanyahu for the United States and Israel to stand united against the evil terror of Iran.
Netanyahu opened by expressing his humility for the invite, calling Congress the “most important legislative body in the world.” He then apologized for the speech itself becoming controversial. “That was never my intention,” he stated. “I want to thank you, Democrats and Republicans, for your common support for Israel, year after year, decade after decade. I know that on whichever side of the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel.”
That clever gambit – an attempt to kill the Obama administration and the boycotting Democrats with kindness – placed President Obama’s puerile spitefulness on Israel in stark contrast. That, of course, was the point. Every time Netanyahu spelled out the ways in which the Obama administration had helped Israel – instances that were, by and large, pro forma commitments every American president makes to Israel – he forced Obama into a corner. Turning the other political cheek turned out to be a powerful weapon.
Netanyahu got to the heart of his message: absolutely devastating Obama’s reported Iranian peace deal. In the shadow of the Jewish holiday of Purim, when a Jewish woman pled for the survival of her people from the genocidal intentions of a Persian anti-Semite, Netanyahu echoed Queen Esther’s language:
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I love that guy.
How I long for an adult president that loves our country as PM Netanyahu loves Israel.
I wonder where our military will stand if ordered to stop Israel from defending itself.
If the little girls around the world can go join ISIS in their war against civilization, I guess I can always go to Israel to help out if there is anything this old veteran can do.
Yes.
Huzzah!
Great comparison with that quote.
Two years in Obama had a 3% approval rate in Israel. Can’t imagine what a nightmare for Israel that Obama is.
I also never got how Jews in America could vote for liberal Democrats, I could only conclude they have no connection with their faith beyond in name only.
Iran has already rejected the deal. No matter. If one is ever reached, they’ll just violate it anyway. They’ve been caught lying so many times, their intentions are clear. All this diplomatic fan dancing is just so elitists can say ‘we tried’ when the inevitable occurs.
It’s a good idea for the US to stand with Israel according to God:
“And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.”
~Genesis 12:2 & 3
I bet Obama stops all money from the United States going to Israel. I know he would do something l like this. He is going to have Netanyahu come back begging for our aid. What a jerk Obama is.
Good call!! I was just reading that!
This world has gone nuts. Germany is more friendly to Israel that America. It does seem like a Star Trek episode.
There are.
I will go over there and stand with them.
The way this country and others are behaving towards our ally just disgusts me.
I cannot believe what I am seeing in this world today.
No, read Esther. Tomorrow is the fast of Esther and Thurs is Purim - another time when iran (Persia) threatened the genocide of Israel and the Jews won the right to defend themselves.
Netanyahu has just delivered an address of Churchillian grandeur.
Rumors of his impending defeat by Tzipi Livni & Buji Herzog later this month have been greatly exaggerated.
Obama is unpopular in Israel, now more than ever. But the Obama regime is now going postal on Bibi and with savage intensity. All that’s going to accomplish is to carry Bibi across the finish line in Israel.
Was it 2 or 3 days ago that the Iranian's were blowing up mock US carriers?
WHAT DO THE DEMOCRATS NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT IRAN?
69 years ago almost to the day Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech in Fulton Missouri. Fortunately Harry Truman and his administration listened. I doubt Barky could hear as he was probably holding his ears and chanting La La La La.
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