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Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will
The Atlantic ^
| 3/32/09
| Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted on 03/31/2009 12:07:21 PM PDT by lewisglad
The message from Israel's new prime minister is stark: if the Obama administration doesn't prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, Israel may be forced to attack.
An Atlantic exclusive by Jeffrey Goldberg
In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponsand quicklyor an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Irans nuclear facilities itself.
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a hinge of history and added that Western civilization will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
In unusually blunt language, Netanyahu said of the Iranian leadership, You dont want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.
History teaches Jews that threats against their collective existence should be taken seriously, and, if possible, preempted, he suggested. In recent years, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has regularly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and the supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, this month called Israel a cancerous tumor.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; airstrikes; axisofevil; bhoiran; bibi; iran; iraniannukes; israel; netanyahu; nuclear; nucleariran; obama
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To: FarRightFanatic
101
posted on
03/31/2009 1:14:33 PM PDT
by
1035rep
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
To: lewisglad
When Bibi talks you better listen.
102
posted on
03/31/2009 1:16:50 PM PDT
by
McGruff
To: lewisglad
That he made such a bold statement so early is very telling.
Very telling.
103
posted on
03/31/2009 1:27:46 PM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(If you haven't read "The Creature from Jekyll Island," you probably don't know what's going on.)
To: Norman Bates
104
posted on
03/31/2009 1:28:31 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(Time to waterboard that teleprompter and find out what it knows.)
To: lewisglad
i am not so adept at photoshop as to make bibi’s right i twitch a bit... like the gunslingers of old...
barack will be lied to and appeased and bibi will have to do what we should.
teeman
To: wk4bush2004
This speech if TOTUS is taking a day off (the machine, that is):
"I'm...um...uh...planning...uh...um...to...um...uh...uh...take... this...uh...um...uh...'offer'...under....um...uh...advisement...uh... um...and...uh...um...place it...uh...um...under...um...uh...consideration... right...uh...um...up...um...uh...there...with...choosing...um...my...uh...girls... a...uh...dog! [smiles broadly and inappropriately]
[said forcefully with grim look on face]
Look!...uh...um...these...um...kinds...uh...of decisions...uh...um...take...time...uh...um...and...since...uh... um...we...inherited...uh...this...uh...whole...uh...um...Middle East...uh...um...problem...uh...from...uh...THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION...uh...[chuckles]you know...we...uh...um...are...in CRISIS mode...and uh...um...a...CATASTROPHE...um...the worst...since...uh...Moses...crossed...um...the...Red...Sea...um...did you...know...uh...our...uh...Muslim...um...brothers...uh...believe..um...in..Moses?...uh...and...uh...um...we...will...[forcefully] MAKE NO MISTAKE!...uh...um...transparency...uh...blah...blah...um...blah..."
If TOTUS is on duty (the machine, that is): "Sorry, bub, you're on your own!" Followed by either the old thumb on the nose salute, or a great big raspberry, of course the choice will be at the POTUS'S discretion.
106
posted on
03/31/2009 1:31:24 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: lewisglad
History teaches Jews that threats against their collective existence should be taken seriously, and, if possible, preempted, he suggested. In recent years, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has regularly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and the supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, this month called Israel a cancerous tumor. You know, Mahmoud should be very careful what he asks for. Pharoah threatened to kill all of the first born of Israel, just before the 10th Plague, and it was a boomerang that hit his country with the same punishment.
Who has that map with the Persian Sea in place of Iran?
In all seriousness, no Israeli leader can simply sit back and let a very hostile power with rockets that can hit Israel develop nukes. This is not a matter of politics, it is a matter of sheer survival. All of Israel's leadership is aware that Herr Hitler and his minions didn't let Jews off of the rail cars, or move them out of the line for the gas chambers, based on their political affiliation. "Never Again" is a universal thing over there. Actually, the saying is more properly "Never again - but IF again, not for free."
This thing WILL happen 3-4 months, tops. Israel v. Iran. My bet is on Israel, along with my hopes and prayers.
107
posted on
03/31/2009 1:33:50 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
(Tyrant-wannabee: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
To: lewisglad
You dont want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying." Too late. We already elected BHO.
108
posted on
03/31/2009 1:34:54 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: lewisglad
...our own president... Speak for yourself. He'll never be my President.
Truth be told, he's likely not anyone's president, per the Constitution.
109
posted on
03/31/2009 1:39:43 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: lewisglad
Netanyahu said of the Obamian leadership, You dont want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs
110
posted on
03/31/2009 1:41:42 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: lewisglad
Better get on with it Benjy.
This metrosexual faggot Obama has no stones.
Maybe little Israel can save the sleeping giant America from herself.
111
posted on
03/31/2009 1:41:48 PM PDT
by
Yankee
To: GeronL
112
posted on
03/31/2009 1:45:47 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: wk4bush2004
The zero will join the UN in condemning Israel for saving their collective a$$e$.
113
posted on
03/31/2009 1:46:04 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: lewisglad
This is all sabre rattling. Israel has been prepared to attack Iran for several years now, the same way it did the bomb factory in Syria.
114
posted on
03/31/2009 1:47:50 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
To: kevao
At least Bibi grew up here in the U.S. and graduated from an American High School outside Philly! He’s probably INFINITELY more qualified to lead our country than the Obamessiah. Like you said, obviously he’s not CONSTITUTUIONALLY qualified, but then with Obama’s election and the subsequent cover-up in our justice system I’m sure he could make it work!
115
posted on
03/31/2009 1:50:43 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: lewisglad
You go Bibi!
Run for president...it no longer requires a birth certificate /sar...I’ll vote for you in a heartbeat!
116
posted on
03/31/2009 1:51:09 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Zero is dumb as a rock)
To: murrie
Not a biblical scholar, but it sounds familiar.
Not a big: ‘we are at the end of times’ believer either, but it may be time to reconsider my stance on that. Scary times indeed.
117
posted on
03/31/2009 1:51:51 PM PDT
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: Nervous Tick
Hussein can’t stifle a fart much less a totalitarian government. Hell, he ADMIRES totalitarians.
You’re gonna have to take care of business, Bibi.
118
posted on
03/31/2009 1:53:43 PM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
To: trillabodilla
God may not help the LEADERS of our country if they turn on Israel, but God will NEVER turn his back on true believers... Just remember that! (I’ve seen a lot of people talking about God removing His hand from our nation, and I’ve seen people become very hopeless thinking that WE (the PEOPLE) are being abandoned as well — that is not true!)
119
posted on
03/31/2009 1:53:49 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: Dick Bachert
LOLOLOL
As if an American Airborne Division would do such a thing. I'd suspect they'd be hanging out with the IDF and telling ribald jokes about the azzwipe in the Oval Office.
120
posted on
03/31/2009 1:54:33 PM PDT
by
Thumper1960
(A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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