Posted on 02/07/2015 8:48:48 AM PST by Dave346
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has conveyed messages to the Americans to the effect that “he didn’t know” the invitation extended to him to speak before the US Congress was anything but genuinely bipartisan, Israel’s Channel 10 news reported Friday night.
Netanyahu remains determined to go ahead with the address, to highlight the dangers of a deal that would leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, but is making an effort “to soften” the Obama administration’s anger, and that of many Democrats, over the March 3 speech, the TV report said.
The report added that some 40 Democratic legislators are currently expected to stay away from the address, and that Netanyahu is anxious to avoid that spreading to a wider “second wave” of legislators.
Early Friday, a senior Israeli politician who is close to Netanyahu suggested that the prime minister had been misled into believing both Republicans and Democrats wanted him to speak, and that he had accepted the contentious invitation from House Speaker John Boehner because he understood the offer enjoyed bipartisan support.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) said Netanyahu “hoped and believed” the invitation was “bi-partisan, as the invite letter said — ‘a bi-partisan initiative’ — but because of the tensions between Congress and the [Obama] administration, [and] between Republicans and Democrats, a problem erupted.”
Speaking to 102 FM Tel Aviv Radio, Hanegbi, who is a close confidant of the PM, acknowledged that the row that has flared up between Israel and the Obama administration following the announcement that Netanyahu would speak to Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat presented a “dilemma.”
Boehner’s January 21 invitation to Netanyahu, indeed, stated: “It is my honor, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, to extend to you an invitation to appear before and address a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, February 11, 2015″ — the originally scheduled date.
The announcement infuriated the White House, which charged that the planned speech — subsequently moved to March 3 — breached protocol as it was not coordinated with the administration. The incident set off an ugly, ongoing public dispute between the Netanyahu government and the Obama administration, with senior US officials charging that the Israeli leader had “spat” in Obama’s face and could not be trusted.
There has been considerable vocal Democratic opposition, too, with Jewish House Democrats meeting privately with Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer to castigate him over the affair. At least three Democrats have said they will skip the speech, Vice President Joe Biden may not attend, and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said she hopes it will not go ahead.
Netanyahu has been an outspoken critic of the international efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran. He is set to warn strongly in his speech against a bad deal with Tehran. Initially, it had been suggested that he would also urge US lawmakers to pass a new sanctions bill against Tehran to force it to comply with international demands that it curb its nuclear program — a bill Obama strongly opposes and has vowed to veto because such a move would hinder the P5+1 negotiations under way to secure a deal. But officials in Jerusalem said last week that Netanyahu would focus less on sanctions and more on the dangers of a deal that allows Iran to become a threshold nuclear state.
“The dilemma is, how much can Israel insist and disagree and oppose this policy [of the international community seeking a deal with Iran] while simultaneously preserving our wonderful, intimate relationship with the US,” Hanegbi said, adding that “the question was if Netanyahu should pass up this unique opportunity, so necessary in terms of timing, before the deadline [for a deal between the P5+1 and Tehran].”
Hanegbi said Netanyahu was “investing a lot of effort in order to clarify to Democrats that this [planned address] is not an act of defiance against Obama,” and denied charges that the move was political, meant to boost Netanyahu’s image ahead of Israeli national elections set for March 17, two weeks after the speech.
Netanyahu indicated Thursday that he intended to go ahead with this speech, saying it was “my obligation as the prime minister of Israel to speak out against the danger of a nuclear agreement with Iran, and to do everything I can to prevent it.”
Well, I would say it’s more about Obama’s foreign policy with Iran, as the main issue (because that will be a major major part of Netanyahu’s speech, as Netanyahu himself has pointed out it would).
I can’t say this is Anti-Semitism, because the opposition to Netanyahu in Israel is pointing to this to bolster their position in the upcoming election, and THEY are Jews. You would have to say ... THEN ... that those Jews in Israel is being anti-Semitic ... LOL ...
BBC said that the American public was siding with Obama over this, though, too.
The “news media” is propaganda. They say what Hitler wants them to say. The fact that Hitler has so openly spoke out against Christians, trying to rewrite history, and is now standing so putridly against Jews (fussing against those who speak out against Iran’s Holocaust plans for Israel...) and the media goes right along with it...... is chilling.
It really is time for Americans to bring out the history books and let people see who Obama really is, in the eyes of history.
This foreign enemy combatant was illegally placed into our White House by a coup conducted by the Islamist and communist enemies of the United States, her Constitution, and her people. THEY are the Muslim uprising that the Crusades had to stop, so it is no wonder that Obama is warning us not to get any “high horse” ideas about resisting the caliphate this time.
In January of 2010 Obama told the Egyptian ambassador privately that he was and still is a Muslim who supports “the Muslim agenda” and that the Muslim world needed to be patient with him while he got Obamacare passed and then he would turn his attention to that agenda. (The ambassador later conveyed that message to the Muslim world in a TV interview on Arab TV.) The agenda that all sects of Islam agree on includes the destruction of the US and Israel, and the institution of worldwide sharia.
And everything Obama has done has furthered those 2 goals. Everything.
Obama is Hitler.
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Yes. And any Freepers who can get there!
Freep those who can't seem to support Israel or....Jews.
George Soros is a Jew. He got by because he betrayed the Jews under the Nazis. Can he be anti-Semitic even though he’s a Jew?
Anybody who supports or advances Iran’s ability to carry out the Holocaust they have verbally sworn to do to Israel... is anti-Semitic. Period.
The issue that I was posting about in Post 54, had to do with the opposition in Israel, who are hoping to defeat Netanyahu in the upcoming election ... and how they had made it a major part of their campaign that Netanyahu is alienating some groups in the USA who have been major supporters of Israel, by Netanyahu playing “partisan politics” with the USA.
It’s this thing that has developed over this speech ... that has Netanyahu’s side saying they didn’t realize this invitation was “partisan.” Netanyahu’s side is saying that precisely because of the Israelis who wish to defeat Netanyahu over in Israel.
You would be putting an entire section of the Israeli population in Israel as anti-Semitic, then ... as they are hoping to defeat Netanyahu and are accusing Netanyahu of alienating some groups in the USA, because of Netanyahu catering and playing to partisan politics in the USA.
SO, I’m talking about Jews, and Jews in Israel, and voting Jews in Israel ... who oppose Netanyahu and what he is doing in this speech before Congress (again, “that” being a major complaint with the opposition). I wouldn’t be calling all of them anti-Semitic ... :-) ...
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Yes.
I know that Netanyahu has a lot of support here, and I’m one of his biggest supporters, too. But you have to also keep in mind that Netanyahu has opposition right inside Israel, itself, and an election where a sizable portion of the Israeli voting electorate wish to throw him out of office.
SO ... we don’t like Obama ... and ... a lot of Israeli voters don’t like Netanyahu.
The Israelis who want to defeat Netanyahu are bolstered by Obama, just like Obama bolstered Morsi in Egypt. What Netanyahu is responding to is the agit-prop by Obama, JUST LIKE the agit-prop Obama used in Egypt to put a hardline Islamist in there - to keep his January 2010 (and I believe also pre-2008...) promise to his Islamist puppet-masters who illegally installed him into our White House (the promise being to support the “Muslim agenda” of destroying the US and Israel, and instituting worldwide sharia).
Boehner told Obama of his plan to invite Netanyahu, and Obama & Co immediately put their agit-prop in place.
It’s what Hitler does.
And then all of a sudden we get propaganda all over the world, making it seem like Netanyahu is angering Hitler and the Jewish people will suffer unless Netanyahu/Israel instead APPEASES Hitler....
It’s happening all over again, and if people are too stupid to see it, maybe we deserve the Darwin award that is to come.
Bibi just gave a pocket veto on his speech to democrats. Incredibly stupid.
Anybody who supports or enables Iran to complete the plans for an Israeli Holocaust is anti-Semitic. Period.
Stupid is as stupid does. Any Jew who supports Iran’s ability to fulfill their promise of an Israeli Holocaust is anti-Semitic, unless they’re too stupid to realize that a vote for Adolf Hitler is a vote for the concentration camps, when Hitler made it very clear before-hand that he intended to exterminate those he called sub-human vermin.
No matter what you think about what is going on over here in the USA ... Netanyahu has an election that is coming up in Israel, and this issue has been raised by the opposition in Israel before this speech ever came up. Now, Netanyahu doesn’t have to do anything on regards to the USA, in terms of his election ... he has to do something in Israel, because that’s where the election is happening (and no matter what wrangling is going on with the GOP and Dems).
Thus, if the issue starts “playing” over in Israel, then Netanyahu has to address it in terms of the election in Israel.
And the situation with Netanyahu and the opposition has been going on far longer than even the time anyone knew the name of Obama and long before Obama was in office.
Netanyahu was defeated once before in Israel, long before anyone in the public ever heard of Obama and long before the issue with Iran came up and long before Morsi was involved in Egyptian politics.
Netanyahu and the opposition of Israeli voters (which is a sizable block) has been around LONG BEFORE any of those things you mentioned were ever around.
There are generals in the IDF who are opposed to Netanyahu’s actions on Iran and what he wants to do. These are guys who are and were heavily involved in the defense of Israel.
Now, I’m not saying that I disagree with Netanyahu, because I don’t. I back him in what he says about Iran. What I am saying is that you can’t pigeon-hole a particular position which opposes what Netanyahu says ... as facilitating a Holocaust or being anti-Semitic, because there are people in high places in the government of Israel and the IDF and the Mossad who do not go along with Netanyahu.
If there are empty seats, the Republicans should put on the yellow Star of David. Can you imagine the howling afterwards?
What’s your point?
Yes, Bibi has an election. That’s why Obama is doing the agit-prop.
Obama is also begging Iran to make a deal with them, so Iran can have nukes and annihilate Israel. That’s why Bibi is talking to the US Congress.
It all seems pretty straight-forward to me.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has an election in Israel to be concerned with ... and not the internal politics of the USA and the GOP and Dems wrangling about things.
Netanyahu is not an extension of US politics ... :-) ...
The point is the Netanyahu and his opposition long precede what is said about Iran or the fact that Obama is in office ... and it exists and has its own motive force apart from these issues mentioned here.
Meanwhile, Obama and the White house seethe
I plan to email my blue Congressman, and let him know my thoughts.
Also, I hope there are civilian supporters outside the entrance where Bibi drives in.
That would certainly play into what the opposition parties in Israel say about Netanyahu and fuel their campaign even more to defeat Netanyahu.
Believe me ... Netanyahu wants this issue to GO AWAY for the sake of his election ... :-) ...
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