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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 weapons—and quickly—or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s 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 don’t 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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: lewisglad
the Zer0 would sooner cough up his real birth certificate first... so GreenLight/WeaponsFREE Bibi.
161 posted on 03/31/2009 4:10:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: Vinnie

I would vote for that ticket! Bibi/Palin 2012


162 posted on 03/31/2009 4:21:42 PM PDT by lewisglad
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To: All
Your future depends on your decision NOW Israel, let the world know you will not submit!
163 posted on 03/31/2009 4:25:38 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: lewisglad
I thought he meant OBAMA when he said "wide eyed messianic cult controling nucledar weapons".

It fits Obama to a T.

164 posted on 03/31/2009 4:29:01 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: mojitojoe

Naw, he will just impose economic sanctions on Israel.

Thank God, literally, that Bibi is back.


165 posted on 03/31/2009 4:57:45 PM PDT by jazminerose
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To: BuckeyeTexan
...wonder if this isn’t exactly what Biden was talking about when he said Obama would be tested within 6 months and “our” response wouldn’t be popular....

Barky will abandon Israel.

166 posted on 03/31/2009 5:16:53 PM PDT by Rapscallion ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Frantzie

That percentage is especially significant when one realizes that McCain got more of the gay vote than he did the jewish vote. Same goes for a host of other “minority” groups (except african americans) . The mind boggles.


167 posted on 03/31/2009 5:22:25 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: mentor2k

Nice one.


168 posted on 03/31/2009 5:55:11 PM PDT by 1035rep ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: lewisglad

I have always liked Bibi.


169 posted on 03/31/2009 5:55:48 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: lewisglad

I still remember when Bibi was an infrequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy Program. The testosterone would litterally flow out of my truck speakers and puddle on the floor mats!


170 posted on 03/31/2009 5:56:32 PM PDT by sweetwaterfish (Keep yer powder dry!)
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To: Niuhuru
Zero would be a martyr and this country would burn to ash from all th rioting.

Not if the Mossad brings him down ... especially if they do it non-violently ... like proving without a doubt that he is not native born

171 posted on 03/31/2009 5:59:41 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Zero parcus dies Nero Totus hail FUBO)
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To: Joya

Netanyahu must now protect himself from Obama’s hit men. If we abandon Israel, we are really in deep trouble.
Rapture Ready!


172 posted on 03/31/2009 6:08:20 PM PDT by caffe (please, no more consensus)
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To: lewisglad
We know what the socialist in our White House thinks of Israel. His first calls in office and first interviews were with deadly enemies of our Israeli allies.

We also know what Governor Palin, hopefully the next President of the United States thinks of our ally:

173 posted on 03/31/2009 6:11:22 PM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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To: lewisglad

This will send the ghetto sissy whimpering and hiding behind michelle’s skirt.


174 posted on 03/31/2009 6:32:33 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: clamper1797

Ah, I see. But still, it wouldn’t work, there would be vicious riots and let him leave in disgrace.


175 posted on 03/31/2009 7:01:19 PM PDT by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: Niuhuru

We can’t be intimidated by the unwashed. If there are roits .... so be it. I beats having a nuclear world war. In my opinion the riots may help wake up the sheeple


176 posted on 03/31/2009 7:06:13 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Zero parcus dies Nero Totus hail FUBO)
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To: clamper1797

Yes, but I’m in a high minority neighborhood at the moment so my interests are in avoiding getting caught up in it.


177 posted on 03/31/2009 7:07:10 PM PDT by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: Niuhuru

You’re going to get it eventually anyway ... my suggestion ... move


178 posted on 03/31/2009 7:09:59 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Zero parcus dies Nero Totus hail FUBO)
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To: happygrl

I agree with you completely.


179 posted on 03/31/2009 7:25:22 PM PDT by FarRightFanatic (It wasn't an election. It was a socialist coup.)
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To: Oldexpat
I am surprised that the Saudi’s don’t pressure Zero to act on Iran..wonder why.

How do you know they don't?

180 posted on 03/31/2009 8:46:58 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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