Posted on 03/05/2015 5:18:21 AM PST by cotton1706
It was disconcerting to watch Congress cheer wildly as a foreign leader, the prime minister of one of America's closest allies, trashed an American president's foreign policy. It was equally strange that the speaker of our House of Representatives interjected the United States Congress into an Israeli political campaign.
It fell to Isaac Herzog, Benjamin Netanyahu's leading opponent in Israel's March 17 election, to make the essential point: that Tuesday's speech was "a very harsh wound to Israel-U.S. relations" and "will only widen the rift with Israel's greatest ally and strategic partner."
The rapturous greeting Congress bequeathed on Netanyahu for his attack on President Obama's approach to negotiations with Iran no doubt created great footage for television ads back home and won him some votes at the right end of Israel's electorate.
But Herzog's observation stands: John Boehner's unprecedented act of inviting the leader of another nation to criticize our own president, and Netanyahu's decision to accept, threaten to damage the bipartisan and trans-ideological coalition that has always come together on behalf of Israel's survival.
Netanyahu may have spoken the words, "We appreciate all that President Obama has done for Israel," but the rest of his speech painted the president as foolish and on the verge of being duped on a nuclear deal by the mullahs in Tehran.
The Israeli leader reached for the most devastating metaphor available to him, the appeasement of the Nazis that led to the Holocaust. He urged the United States "not to sacrifice the future for the present" and "not to ignore aggression in the hopes of gaining an illusory peace." This is what he was accusing Obama of doing. No wonder House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi described herself as "near tears" over Netanyahu's "condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Not only is the White House foolish, Brits, the French, the Germans and Russia are too. Well now that I think of it, Russia and Iran probably have something going on the side.
EJ Dionne cares when Republicans trash 0bama’s non-existent foreign policy. He doesn’t care when 0bama trashes the Constitution.
But apparently, to hypocritical leftist shills like Special Ed, it's not strange that the White House would inject itself into an Israeli political campaign, as obonehead has been doing for months by supporting Netanyahu's rivals.
So, which is it?
“Yes, the emerging deal does carry the risk that down the road, Iran could get nuclear weapons. But failing to reach an agreement will not necessarily stop Tehran from going nuclear, and an end to negotiations would in no way ensure that the rest of the world would return to effective sanctions. Netanyahu’s rhetoric pointed toward his real goal, which is regime change, but how exactly could that happen without armed conflict?”
So the author sees the choice as armed conflict now or nuclear holocaust later, and he chooses the latter. He must calculate that he’ll be somewhere else when it happens. That’s why he focuses on rhetorical “wounds”.
Jews have been a reliable part of the DemocRAT Party base for decades, so it’s amazing to watch DemocRATS cr@p all over the Prime Minister of the only free Jewish country in the world—A country established, in part, as a response to Nazi atrocities against Jews during WWII, and one that has been a faithful ally to the US since its inception.
It seems that “Never Again!” is just a nifty t-shirt slogan that, when push comes to shove, is meaningless; like most DemocRAT rhetoric.
” ...the rest of his speech painted the president as foolish and on the verge of being duped on a nuclear deal by the mullahs in Tehran.”
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The truth hurts.
“...the most devastating metaphor available to him, the appeasement of the Nazis that led to the Holocaust.”
For Bibi this is not a metaphor at all; it’s exactly what happened to his people. He made it clear the Israelis will not sit by and let it happen again.
What else would one expect from EJ Dionne, a commie loving, socialist/lib, Marxist?
That's because he is foolish and is on the verge of being duped on a nuclear deal by the mullahs in Tehran.
He shouldn’t get so emotional; he might have a stroke.
Netanyahu gave much the same speech in 2011. Here’s the transcript:
http://www.cfr.org/israel/netanyahus-address-us-congress-may-2011/p25073
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled The Wound Netanyahu Left, cotton1706 wrote:
It’s always enjoyable to see E.J. Dionne so upset.
The purpose of this slop is for it to get splashed around in Israel to affect their election as well as welcomed in certain quarters here.
They shouldn't care more about Israel's sovereignty than they care about ours.
I thought the Dims were all about “speaking truth to power”.
First Polls in Israel with just 10 days until their elections show Bibi is gaining on his rivals in Knesset seats, and his own popularity.
His speech of course was great, and it was viewed in Israel of course.
E J just wishes he was the first lady instead of Michelle,
“The Israeli leader reached for the most devastating metaphor available to him, the appeasement of the Nazis that led to the Holocaust.”
I guess ol’ EJ hasn’t bothered to research the Iranian view on the ABSOLUTE destruction of Israel and the Jews. Or he’s a damned dissembling liar. Completely stupid or a Liar. Those are the choices.
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