Posted on 10/30/2014 5:55:44 AM PDT by xzins
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's under fire because he won't compromise the safety of Israel.
"When there is pressure on Israel to give up on its security, the easiest thing is to give up," Arutz Sheva quoted Netanyahu's response at the Knesset.
"As prime minister, I stand for the security of Israel," he continued. "The life of every single citizen and soldier matters to me, and I am not prepared to make comprises that will endanger our country."
"Our interests are not on the minds of those who attack us -- or me -- personally," he said. "The attack on me comes because I defend the State of Israel and despite all the attacks, I will continue to defend our country and the citizens of Israel."
He added that he respects and values Israel's relations with the United States.
"The strategic alliance between the countries continues and will continue," he said.
Those were his first public remarks after The Atlantic quoted a senior Obama administration official calling Netanyahu a word that starts with "chicken."
The official told The Atlantic the good thing about Netanyahu was that he was afraid to launch wars, but the bad thing was he won't reach an accommodation with the Palestinian Authority or Sunni Arab states. Another White House official called Netanyahu a coward on a nuclear Iran and said he won't launch a pre-emptive strike.
Israeli Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett called on the Obama administration to "immediately reject these gross comments."
"The prime minister of Israel is not a private person. He is the leader of the Jewish state and the entire Jewish people. Cursing the prime minister and calling him names is an insult not just to him but to the millions of Israeli citizens and Jews across the globe," Bennett wrote.
"The leader of Syria, who slaughtered 150,000 people, was not awarded the name 'chickens---,'" Bennett continued. "Neither was the leader of Saudi Arabia who stones women and homosexuals or the leader of Iran who murders freedom protestors."
"If what appears in the press is true, then it seems that the current U.S. administration is throwing Israel under the bus," Bennett wrote.
"Israel is the only democratic state in the Middle East and has been fighting 66 years to survive," he continued.
"Israel is at the forefront of the free world's fight against the Islamic terror of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. Instead of attacking Israel and putting it at risk, the world should be strengthening and supporting it."
Roger that. I was going to post that, but you already did. The LORD will handle the cursing of OScuma.
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All of us in this country know what a piece of trash Obama is and we know what a hero Benjamin Netanyahu is.Obama knows he is a screw up and is so jealous of MR Netanyahu,plus Obama is a Muslim,that pretty much says it all..MUSLIMS hate us all..
Cursing the prime minister and calling him names ..Where was he cursed? I believe he was unjustly characterized, but cursed? Not by a long shot.
I am evading nothing, you’re schreeching of names and accusations does not warrant a response.
Now to your more salient point, “international diplomacy” is not carried out in decrepit liberal rags like ‘the atlantic’ —so yes, responding to anonymous accusations is whining.
Schooled!
Can “we” curse them too???
Oops...Too late...that ship has passed...And, Oh LOOK!!!
The ship is passing by again...Goody!!!
I have another broadside prepared for the administrative scow of Obama, Holder and Kerry...
Are you talking of the basest Jewish stereotype? Something like 'sheep to the slaughter'...is that 'bleat out' means?
What stereotype are you referring to?
An epithet is a term of abuse attempting to label. To label someone is curse them. I don’t think you see the word in its historic context and Netanyahu does.
Pride cometh before the ZOT! Hezekiah 9:11
When Brezinski advocated that in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran, the US should take Iran's side and shoot IAF planes out of the sky, I believe he was still an Obama advisor. Early 2009, about the time Obama rescinded written assurances about Israeli construction in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria given by GWB, verbal assurances from Clinton. Had he not done that, all this nonsense about Jews not living where they have for millennia would be moot, that was a settled issue pre Obama.
There have been rumors that the high ranking official was at State, not the WH. Personally I think Kerry has better sense than saying these things to a reporter, but a friendly reporter, who knows. Warning to officials who should know better, the media may love you but may not pass on a great story. Goldberg referenced multiple derogatory comments, including the slur against autistics I’d never heard of. So you’re talking multiple officials.
Not sure blasting Obama, pointing out he’s defending his nation, a foreign concept to Obama, is a whine. A statement of fact. As to the base stereotype, I’m hard pressed to think of anyone currently in the Obama administration with the background to call Netanyahu a coward. And yes, I know Hagel and Kerry served in combat. They should have better sense than to make an accusation like that.
Well said.
“...There are even times when as believers we are astounded by the events unfolding in our time, that they would be moving so rapidly ...and that’s just in what we see and is reported, there is much not.”
It’s breathtaking to see how quickly things are coming to pass. And so many are hardening their hearts against the truth. Trying to warn them seems futile at times. Like trying to warn the builders of the Titanic it would sink when it launched. They didn’t want to hear the truth.
These globullists live in a world where lies and human pride are elevated over the truth of God’s word. The devil’s time is running short and he knows it. He wants to take as many with him as possible.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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On which side?
Theirs, as far as I am concerned.
The majority of people have always rejected God’s prophetic Word...ad the church use to be the the “Lifeboat” for those who are perishing....now it’s all about “entertainment” which is satan’s counterfeit for Gods Joy.
Unfortunately we’re living in a day where truly the truth is falling into the streets like the twin towers fell......could be the time is far shorter than we realize. Which for that all the more reason to “warn” and get the message out there as HE leads us to do so.
Globalists operate on their own plain independent from God and from man....which is why they were the title “elites”....not realizing their own doom is pending.
Well, there it, is.
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