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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I would vote for that ticket! Bibi/Palin 2012
It fits Obama to a T.
Naw, he will just impose economic sanctions on Israel.
Thank God, literally, that Bibi is back.
Barky will abandon Israel.
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.
Nice one.
I have always liked Bibi.
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!
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
Netanyahu must now protect himself from Obama’s hit men. If we abandon Israel, we are really in deep trouble.
Rapture Ready!
We also know what Governor Palin, hopefully the next President of the United States thinks of our ally:
This will send the ghetto sissy whimpering and hiding behind michelle’s skirt.
Ah, I see. But still, it wouldn’t work, there would be vicious riots and let him leave in disgrace.
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
Yes, but I’m in a high minority neighborhood at the moment so my interests are in avoiding getting caught up in it.
You’re going to get it eventually anyway ... my suggestion ... move
I agree with you completely.
How do you know they don't?
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