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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It’s up to Benjamin Netanyahu.
zer0bama’s teleprompter already has him convinced that the sheer messianic charm he possesses will be enough to inexplicably sway all parties toward peace.
A.A.C.
BIBI FOR PRESIDENT!!!
(Hey, if we can elect a Kenyan, then why not an Israeli?)
“I will NOT go to war against Israel period.”
I can guarantee that an overwhelming majority of (if not the entire) U.S. military will REFUSE to follow Obama’s orders if/when he orders attacks on Israel or its forces.
But the real question should be: Does he have plans on stopping Israel?
Time to move to Israel! Kick ass, Net.
Wasn’t Bibi born in the US? Come on work with me.
Can’t we ‘prove’ it or get a Hawaiian CoB ?
Bibi for Pres.
Bibi/Palin ‘12.
And if Bebe does the job himself, it will probably shut down oil transported from the Arab countries; maybe then the American people will DEMAND oil production in our country!!
My remark was, of course, hyperbolic — but only slightly so.
This could get VEEERRRRY interesting when American Jews who voted for Zero watch him set up the Israelis for the defeat and expulsion from the area even Jimmy Carter couldn’t achieve.
Gonna need more chips and beer for this one.
That’s my prayer every night lately.
Sean Hannity is talking about it now.
This would be followed quickly by the forceful removal of FUBO by a much needed and perhaps inevitable military intervention.
Yes, indeed.
Isn’t it mentioned in the book of Revelation that when the time comes when all nations rise up against Israel that Christ returns?
“Very few people in this world get a “2nd chance”, Bibi. Even fewer of the World’s leaders are rewarded in this way.”
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Two words: Grover Cleveland.
Yes indeed; prayers for Bibi, prayers for Israel.
(Excellent post, papasmurf.)
That's my recollection ...
At least someone has a CLUE and it’s not Obama!
Mobilize the US military against the IDF is probably an accurate summation of what TOTUS would love to do.
God help us if we turn on Israel. Or maybe He won’t.
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