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.”
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Israel will persih if they wait for help fropm this country before 2013. Thank God they elected someone who understands this.
Don’t bet on it.
Then he’d better get those planes gassed up cause the Marxist Thug from the badlands of Chicago ain’t gonna kill no fellow muzzies.
urkle-the-nerd.
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He is a HUGE nerd. He’s like the nerd you knew in high school that tried to act cool but ended up looking more nerdy than he did when he acted like a nerd.
It is truly a sad day when we are actually living through the American administration’s abandonment of Israel.
Make no mistake, WHEN - not if, WHEN - Israel attacks Iran’s facilities, Hussein will distance himself further from the Israelis, he will go on about dialogue, that he’s a big believer in “folks who don’t get along or see eye to eye” learning to talk to one another.
Things are going to get very ugly after that.
“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you...” Genesis 12:3
The truth is Bozo is a Muslim and his sympathy lies with any muslim nation and against Israel. He has already proved that. Is there any doubt in right thinking people's minds that this jerk wants Israel to be destroyed? None in my mind at all!
God bless Netanyahu.
GOD BLESS ISRAEL.
Will Obomba launch a preemptive air strike on Tel Aviv?
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Only if he wants to a full blown revolution here where he would likely be dragged out by our military and put in shackles.
Could not agree more!
Finally! Someone with some BALLS!!!
Israel continues to beg for Obama to gather up the players, guarantee their security, and sign a “peace agreement.”
Don’t worry. B. Hussein will talk them to death.
I will NOT go to war against Israel period.
I don't know if he will go that far, but he will likely do everything short of that to discourage Israel - denial of munitions, cut off of economic aid and trade, denial of transit rights, harassment of Israeli submarines, leaking of Israel plans to Iran, etc.
“You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs...”....
You mean like “zero” and his loyal minions....????
No, but thier American counter parts sure are!
just sayin’
It may be the Mossad that finally brings FUBO down ... if only to save Israel from our Muslim collaborator in chief
As a Bibi fan, I must say, I hope this is the first and last time we see him even bother mentioning the name Obama. Just do what you need to do and don’t wait for this guy.
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