Netanyahu met with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday at his residence in Jerusalem and described the peace process as the “challenge of establishing peace in our region”:
We have so many threats in the region, you know, we’ll have to discuss. But one dwarfs everything else, and that is the threat that Iran will get nuclear weapons. We can work and will work together, are working together, to make sure that doesn’t happen. And in addition to that we have other security challenges and the challenge of establishing peace in our region. So I look forward to discussing all these things with you, and I know you share our common goals, and you work for them too.
Army General Martin Dempsey:
I do very much, Mr. Prime Minister. First… thanks for inviting me into your home and especially so soon after your [hernia] surgery .. I have spent another very productive day with your chief of defense, General Benny Gantz, talking about all those issues and recommitting and reemphasizing and reinforcing our partnership, so you have our commitment to that.
Prediction: Western national security communities (American and European) will eventually grow weary of the relentless and bullying pressure by personalities like Benjamin Netanyahu to organize their priorities around the expansionist and discriminatory policies of Israel and Jewish nationalism, and will revolt. When that moment comes, it will be sudden, volcanic and irreversible.
Dempsey may be putting on a friendly face, but it’s easy to guess what he’s really thinking. There can be no doubt about where his true loyalties and priorities lie.
Israel — even though it believes (often with religious fervor) that the entire universe revolves around and is subordinate to its problems — is only one small piece on the strategic chessboard.
Is Benny Gantz a good (smart) guy or a bad (dumb) guy? I forget. The three keeping Netanyahu in check, keeping him from going off the reservation packing heat for Iran, were Meir Dagan, Yuval Diskin, and a third one.
Was it Gantz or someone else?
I think a honest broker would go and visit Abbas’ home as well…
Oh, by the way, what are the “so many threats in the region” Bibi speaks of…? Syria is in disarray, Egypt just fell back in line, Jordan never mind… Just ludicrous…
Just look at that video.
Look at the learnt-in mannerism by Netanyahu, the way he talks, look with his eyes, hand gesturing etc. Truly pathetic. Who does he think he is? Hes so fake!
And look at Dempsey obviously feeling uncomfortable in the situation, especially since Netanyahu trying to impose his views on Dempsey, just like when Netanyahu humiliated Obama in 2011 on 1967 borders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-DL4ihfM8M
“I have spent another very productive day with your chief of defense, General Benny Gantz, talking about all those issues and recommitting and reemphasizing and reinforcing our partnership, so you have our commitment to that.”
American pressure on Israel to make a fair and generous offer to the Palestinians is nothing short of relentless.