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Congratulating Nobelist, Netanyahu continues to anoint himself king of the Jews

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In his speech to Congress back in May and in his recent speech at the U.N., Netanyahu spoke of himself as representing Jews all over the world. His U.N. tripe– sorry, trope: “On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people… I speak for a hundred generations of Jews who were dispersed.”

Today he shows us what that means in yet another grandiloquent gesture.

It’s from the LA Times (link below). Israeli Dan Schechtman won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for research he conducted in the U.S. back in 1982.

Shechtman studied and still teaches at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He also works at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State campus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Shechtman to offer congratulations “on behalf of the citizens of Israel, for your award, which expresses the intellect of our people. Every Israeli is happy today and every Jew in the world is proud.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-nobel-chemistry-israel-20111006,0,376852.story

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I thought Schectman discovered the properties of pseudocrystals at Iowa State before returning to the Technion. Doesn’t that make it a product of U.S. research?

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I seem to remember the title “King of the Jews” was once applied to someone else. He came to a bad end.

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RE: “Netanyahu continues to anoint himself king of the Jews” ~ Weiss

REGARDING NETANYAHU AS “KING”: Bibi: Israel Will Raise ‘David’s Sword’ Against Iran ~ By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 9/28/11

(excerpts)…But the most interesting and frightening element of the interview was his [Netanyahu’s] comments about Iran. Other reporters have been noting that Bibi lately has been waxing apocalyptic and mystical about the possibly oncoming war with Iran. In this interview he says:

Iran’s nuclear programs are turning it into an existential danger to the State of Israel. The question is not just what Israel is doing to stop it, but what the world is doing…
…You must keep in mind: that we aspire toward peace; but at the same time we must wield the sword of David to defend the Jewish State.

Of course, in Bibi’s skewed world-view, David’s sword was raised only to defend his people, not in aggression against a victim. But we should keep in mind that David’s sword slew an Israelite enemy and led to the killer’s annointment as King of Israel…
…Bibi (and to a lesser extent, Barak) have a very complicated complex that is little short of messianic and frightening. In the past, I’ve written dismissively about Bibi saying he has no principles and that even his so-called Jewish values appear to be manufactured. Now, I’m not so sure. And I don’t know which is worse, a megalomaniac with no principles or values; or a Jewish megalomaniac with religious-nationalist principles and values. They both scare the living hell out of me…

ENTIRE COMMENTARY – http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/09/28/bibi-israel-will-raise-davids-sword-against-iran/

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