Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest campaign ad suggests that Israel doesn’t need the United States. Here it is at Youtube. In an obvious reference to Netanyahu’s ongoing battle with the U.S. president, the ad tells Israeli voters that the U.S. opposed the creation of Israel.
So Netanyahu is saying that his defiance of President Barack Obama over Iran is part of a great tradition. But Secretary of State George Marshall, who opposed the creation of Israel, served President Harry Truman, who recognized Israel within 11 minutes or so of its declaration of its existence on May 15, 1948. Truman had approved the Partition plan of 1947 and had overruled his State Department when it wanted to bag on partition and set up another international mandate, due to the skirmishes and ethnic cleansing it had unleashed in the first few months of 1948 (a fact that the New York Times gets wrong today in a review of S. Yizhar’s novel, saying the Nakba began after Israel’s declaration of independence). If you read Genesis, by John Judis, you see that Truman repeatedly acceded to the wishes of Zionist supporters, in some part because he needed campaign cash in a close presidential race that year.1948 – Ben Gurion faces a crucial decision: establishment of the State of Israel.
The American Secretary of State strongly opposed.
Ben Gurion, contrary to the position of the American State Department, declares the establishment of the state.
Would we be here today if Ben Gurion hadn’t done the right thing?
Only the Likud, Only Netanyahu.
The truth is: Israel never would have come into existence without the United States.
Netanyahu is thumbing his nose at Truman and at Obama all at once. So he wants to get along without the United States? It’s a good idea; Israel would have to come to terms with its neighbors and Palestinian citizens. But I wonder what AIPAC will have to say about that, and the liberal Zionists.
P.S. Buzzfeed got to the ad last night.
As I said about this travesty yesterday:
Is there no end to Netanyahu’s hubristic delusions? An inciter, and an egomaniacal and inveterate liar.
“The truth is: Israel never would have come into existence without the United States.”
An essential point that is rarely brought up. The third rail in all discourse. All the more reason that we should be holding them accountable for their terrible crimes, and not enabling them or cheering them on. The flip side to that is that the Palestinians would never have suffered so much, nor experienced the ongoing Nakba, had it not been for the US.
“Netanyahu is thumbing his nose at Truman and at Obama all at once. So he wants to get along without the United States? It’s a good idea; Israel would have to come to terms with its neighbors and Palestinian citizens. But I wonder what AIPAC will have to say about that, and the liberal Zionists.”
Perhaps this is the path that needs to be traveled. Israel’s psychopathy and criminality needs full exposure, so that the average person can make an informed decision as to whether their tax dollars should support it. Rude/ungrateful does not even begin to describe the behavior and words of this PM…
Kay24 just linked to an article about more fighter jets bound for Israel.
” Israel to purchase 14 more F-35 planes from U.S. The deal, valued at $110m per plane, is considered to be continuation of purchase agreement signed in 2010, when it was decided that 19 F-35 planes would be transferred to Israel Defense Forces.” – See more at: https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2015/02/indigenous-immigrate-judaism#sthash.34kfITxK.dpuf
Thanks, Phil.
This is the same man who declared to Jewish settlers in an unguarded moment that “The United States… is something that can be easily moved”.
So his ad is not relevatory, but confirmatory.
The successor to Bibi will not be a labor Zionist. It’ll be Bennett or someone like him. The U.S. is going the way of California; permanent democratic presidents due to demographics.
The “shared values” trope will look increasingly pathetic and hollow as the years march on. The two biggest social/political issues today are either race domestically(police brutality, prison, drug reform etc) or Gaza/WB. The two are linked.
When even a capitalist campus like Stanford votes for divestment you know the time’s up.
USA 11 minutes, but USSR pretty soon thereafter. Else like ISIS, the “self-declared State of Israel”. However, without USA (and the others), no UNSC allowance of Israel to join UN! In that case, a state but not a member — like Palestine.
BTW, it is funny, is it not, that though Palestine was “recognized” after its declaration in 1988 by lots of (unimportant?) countries, but lacks a requirement for statehood, control of its territory, Israel is always regarded as a state even though it lacks another requirement for statehood, a declared territory for it to have control over. (IMO, it is ALL “belligerent occupied territory”.)
Here’s a funny: Palestine has no control over its territory (whatever that may be) because of occupation by Israel. And Israel has no declared territory because it has put off declaration — why not? de facto, declaration is evidently not required in its case — until occupation is over (well, and peace with Lebanon and Syria).
Bibi blames Truman for Truman’s state department stance against Israel’s creation when Truman is famous for ignoring his ow state department in the matter–he was bought off by Zionists–they funded his whistle stop campaign. LOL.
Netanyahu “flips off” negotiators wrt Iran…
“Jerusalem (AFP) – Iran is seeking to open a “third front” against Israel using Hezbollah fighters on the Syrian Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Netanyahu said Tehran’s attempts to entrench itself along Israel’s borders was one of the biggest emerging security threats facing the Jewish state.
“Alongside Iran’s direct guidance of Hezbollah’s actions in the north and Hamas’s in the south, Iran is trying also to develop a third front on the Golan Heights via the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who are in southern Syria and over which Iran holds direct command,” he said.
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said his ministers were to be briefed on “the security challenges developing around us, first and foremost Iran’s attempt to increase its foothold on Israel’s borders even as it works to arm itself with nuclear weapons.
An Israeli air strike inside the Syrian-controlled sector of the Golan Heights on January 18 killed six members of Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as well as a general from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
Israel neither confirmed nor denied responsibility, but it has carried out several such strikes over the past two years, stressing its policy of preventing arms transfers to militant groups and potential attacks.
Netanyahu said that Tehran’s ongoing “murderous terrorism” has “not prevented the international community from continuing to talk with Iran about a nuclear agreement that will allow it to build the industrial capacity to develop nuclear weapons.””
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-forming-third-front-against-israel-golan-netanyahu-152818891.html
Insane preview to his speech in March. He’s “muttering” and sputtering. It’s been reported that UNIFIL has said that they believe that the Spanish peacekeeper may have been targeted and killed by Israel…