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Israeli Opposition Leader’s Speech Cut Off on TV as ‘Elections Propaganda’
Algemeiner ^ | March 4, 2015 11:55 am

Posted on 03/04/2015 10:16:23 AM PST by Dave346

A speech by Zionist Union alliance head and Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog was cut off in the middle of a broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 television network due to concern that Herzog’s remarks constituted elections propaganda.

“There’s no doubt Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks well, but let’s admit the truth: the speech we heard, impressive as it might have been, did not stop the Iranian nuclear program,” Herzog said on the Tuesday night broadcast regarding Netanyahu’s address to Congress, according to Israel Hayom. “It also won’t affect the deal being put together, either in terms of content or timetable. The painful truth is that after the applause, Netanyahu remained alone. Israel remains isolated, and the negotiations with Iran will continue without Israeli involvement.”

Herzog called Netanyahu’s speech “a serious blow to Israel-US relations” that “won’t change the [Obama] administration’s position and will only widen the rift with our great friend and strategic partner, a schism that we will all pay the price for.”

Upon arriving back in Israel on Wednesday morning, Netanyahu said at Ben-Gurion International Airport, “After my short visit to the United States, I return to Israel knowing that many around the world heard what Israel has to say about the impending deal with Iran.”

“In my speech before the Congress, I presented a practical alternative, which would impose tougher restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, extending Iran’s breakout time by years,” the prime minister said. “I also called on the P5+1 [nations] to insist on a deal that would link the lifting of those restrictions to Iran’s ceasing its sponsorship of terrorism around the world, its aggression against its neighbors, and its calls for Israel’s destruction. I heard encouraging responses from both Democrats and Republicans. They understood that the current proposal would lead to a bad deal and that the alternative is a better deal. Happy Purim.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; electionpropaganda; herzog; iran; israel; israelelection; netanyahuspeech; nuclear; terror; war; waronterror

1 posted on 03/04/2015 10:16:23 AM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

LOL Wish we could do that here.


2 posted on 03/04/2015 10:18:58 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Dave346

bad link?


3 posted on 03/04/2015 10:20:04 AM PST by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Dave346

Bibi told the world that Israel will not stand idly by while Iran develops a nuclear warhead. It will strike when they determine the time is right. With or without the worlds cooperation or approval.
God be with Israel


4 posted on 03/04/2015 10:23:27 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Dave346

Want to bet the speech was written by the Obama White House


5 posted on 03/04/2015 10:32:53 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Dave346

Not quite sure how things work in Israel but Channel 2 is private.


“Herzog’s speech was cut short since, Channel 2 anchor Yonit Levi said, it was ‘blatant election propaganda.’

“MK Shelly Yachimovich, who is in the third slot on the Zionist Union’s Knesset slate, said that Netanyahu’s address was ‘delivered despite a severe warning from the White House, and while [Netanyahu] was aware of the damage he caused while preparing for the speech.’ Yachimovich, who was also on the Channel 2 panel, nevertheless conceded that ‘most Israelis agreed with the content of the speech.’

“She said Herzog would have made ‘exactly the same speech’ but with the difference that the US president and the vice president would be in attendance.”

http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1879585


6 posted on 03/04/2015 10:55:12 AM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: Dave346

Good! Herzog has proven to be one of Jerusalem’s Quisling sellout artists.

sadly...


7 posted on 03/04/2015 10:58:49 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Dave346

This link is working now.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/04/israeli-opposition-leader%E2%80%99s-speech-cut-off-on-tv-as-%E2%80%98elections-propaganda%E2%80%99/


8 posted on 03/04/2015 11:04:30 AM PST by Dave346
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To: hlmencken3

LOL, so basically the leftist Yachimovich is admitting that the WH opposition to the speech was what was political!


9 posted on 03/04/2015 11:06:33 AM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Exactly.

And it makes one wonder why Pelosi was crying if Herzog would have given the same speech.


10 posted on 03/04/2015 11:09:19 AM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: Robe
I agree “God be with Israel”.

The forces of evil thought that they had Israel outnumbered back in 1967 and tiny Israel blew them out of the water.

No country is outnumbered if God is on their side.

“This was a great test of Gideon’s faith. His army of 32,000 men was already overmatched by 135,000 Midianites. Yet God thought his army was too big, and He commanded Gideon to invite all who were afraid to go home. He was left with only 10,000 men.”
http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/0707.htm

The number of men was reduced to 300.

” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men”

God's people won with 300 men vs. 135,000 Midianites.

“Don't mess with Israel”
~God

11 posted on 03/04/2015 11:10:25 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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12 posted on 03/04/2015 4:05:32 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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