Netanyahu and his wife headed for New York
The Prime Minister’s office tweeted that picture. Netanyahu speaks at the U.N. after noon and is going to meet with Secretary Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg.
But his press is disastrous. Laura Rozen retweeted this line from Ben Caspit at Al Monitor:
It seems to me that Netanyahu is beginning to understand the magnitude of the crisis of his future relationships with Washington.
Some adjectives that come to mind are: brazen, reckless and irrational. Another is disingenuous…
No Israeli prime minister should seek to circumvent the president, bet on his losing an election, and attack him publicly when the most strategically damaging course for a state as powerful as Israel is to alienate its unwavering ally, generous funder and military supplier — the United States.
His headstrong behavior has been ungrateful to Obama and undermining of Israel’s true strategic interests.
Should be fun! I still say: Six months, and the Israelis get rid of him.
“Six months, and the Israelis get rid of him”
It isn’t Bibi. It’s Zionism. Zionist logic has brought Israel to where it is.
Barak, Zippy or Mofaz would be just as bad. There is no alternative to the sociopaths. They sidelined them all.
“His headstrong behavior has been ungrateful to Obama and undermining of Israel’s true strategic interests”
Israel has been undermining its own true strategic interests since June 6 1967. Bibi is irrelevant in the bigger picture. It’s not like there was some fork in the road at which he swerved the car in the direction of the cliff. The degeneration required before Jews start spitting at Franciscan monks or firebomb the homes of immigrants or bomb Gaza with white phosphorous is the product of millions of individual conversations and millions of hours of teaching stretching over decades. The process started long before Bibi came on the scene.
Personalising the mess in the form of Bibi is like blaming the Mexican drug crisis on something that happened in 2005.
This is a systemic crisis. Nice that Bibi is the one to be there when TSHTF but it’s much bigger than him.
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/at-un-netanyahu-needs-to-repair-his-own-power-of-deterrence.premium-1.466853
Netanyahu’s standing, of course, is far from free-falling at the pace that his friend Mitt Romney is plummeting in the polls, but his position is also far what it was only a few short months ago: Jewish leaders are bewildered, the media has grown harsh, Democratic congressmen are suddenly criticizing him in public and it’s clear to most observers that in his latest showdown with President Obama, it was Netanyahu who was forced to blink first.
People should look at the comments section of this Huffington Post article: near universal rejection of Nutter’s agenda and the few Ziobot slobs who dare to post nonsense get mobbed.
Phil,
As a betting man myself, especially in predicting major cultural and political turning points, I find that my crystal ball is cloudy on this issue. For instance, the Netanyahu camp may succeed in cooking up another Monicagate or 9/11 to turn the political tide in their favor. Just recently we have heard WINEP nonchalantly mention false flag ops as a useful tool for getting an American/Israeli war against Iran underway. These people are reckless and crazy and sometimes get away with committing outrageous criminal acts to achieve their objectives.
No matter how many warning signs Netanyahu receives regarding his crossing of red lines in his brazen and crude attacks on a sitting American president, he keeps pressing ahead like an apoplectic maniac.
Are Israel and the neocons on the verge of using a false flag op to trigger an American/Israeli war against Iran?
“Lobbyist Says Israel Should Create A ‘False Flag’ To Start A War With Iran”
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-researcher-suggests-israel-get-nastier-with-iran-sink-sub-illicit-false-flag-2012-9#ixzz27gaTgHo7
Watch out.
Clawson’s remarks remind one of the fact that the neocons imagined a “New Pearl Harbor” *before* 9/11 to get their Global War on Terror and Clash of Civilizations underway — including the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the Afpak War, attempted Libya and Syria Wars, and now a possible (probable?) Iran War. The neocons and Likud Zionists are an open book — what they are up to is all right out there in plain view. But they continue to be protected by the mainstream media and both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Some typical comments on the Business Insider article:
The neocons have really stirred the pot.