Benjamin Netanyahu was all over US TV yesterday (I saw him on CNN), trashing our president’s negotiations with Iran. The PM released this trailer of his best lines to American media.
He was Islamophobic:
Iran is a great deal more dangerous than North Korea. It’s a militant Islamic power bent on regional domination, in fact bent on world domination, as it openly says so.
Has Iran ever said it is bent on world domination? That is surely a lie.
Notice Netanyahu’s references to “congenital cheating” in Iran:
This is not a personal issue now between me and the president… We do have a difference of opinion. This is a difference of policies, not a clash of personalities….Iran is shown to be completely distrustful. It’s not a country that you can place your trust in. And it’s not a country that you are going to resolve its congenital cheating– you’re just not going to resolve it by placing more inspectors there.
Do the Iranians get to counter these claims? When will our media give Hassan Rouhani the megaphone?
The Guardian fact-checks some of Netanyahu’s statements here. Yesterday we mentioned Senator Dianne Feinstein’s advice to him to bug out, it’s backfiring.
Thanks to Annie Robbins.
“Iran is shown to be completely distrustful.”
And can you blame them?
cnn had a 7 minute interview (SEVEN MINUTES!!! http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/05/politics/netanyahu-iran-deal/ ) up on their website yesterday plus another 3.5 minute video, both from their “State of the Union” sunday morning talk show. i mean please!!! does the american public need to hear these words again so soon? or look at that face? i swear, does the media have to give him this kind of attention? we don’t do this for putin or merkel or rouhani any other world leader. enough with it!
I’ve seen his adherents try to peddle his latest Easter Sunday morning ‘bunny hop away from the truth’ shtick on sites everywhere today.
They keep getting shot down.
I think the reason we have these hysterics from Netanyahu is because of Iran’s growing regional power, economically, militarily, and its soft and hard power influence throughout the region. A deadly combination for Israel. It is the major component of the arc of resistance to Israel, GCC and US hegemony. Israel knows Iran cannot acquire nuclear weapons capability with all the safeguards now in place, so it wants do do the next best thing, keep the sanctions in place, try and stymie the Iranian economy in any way they can, short of a direct assault on it. Of course the Israelis could not do this on their own in any case, the Iranian response would be devastating, some estimates are of 150,000 rockets [confirmed by Israeli intelligence] and aimed at the vital economic areas in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area by both Iran and Hezbollah. These rockets could be called in conventional weapons terms, mutual assured destruction [MAD]. This is why Israel is so wary of attacking Hezbollah, with Iran, more so.
They need a willing executioner, unfortunately Obama’s Chiefs of Staff have told him Iran would be no pushover, and that not only would the region go up in flames, the economies of Western Europe would go with them.
O/T, though loosely related.
“A Tel Aviv family was barred from entering a public park in Afula over Passover because their bags contained chametz, the leavened bread that Jewish tradition prohibits over the festival.
“People who went there with rolls, they didn’t let them in, and they had to eat them at the entrance” of Afula Park, said Barak Avivi, a lawyer who said he was considering filing a class-action lawsuit after he, his wife Michal, their daughter and other children in the family, were among many visitors told they could not enter on Saturday because their food was not kosher for Passover.
Michal Avivi’s Facebook post on the family’s experience was shared thousands of times. Everyone who wanted to enter the park Saturday “underwent a meticulous search for chametz in all their bags,” she wrote. “When I asked the security guard at the entrance why he wasn’t letting them in, he said he received this ‘democratic’ directive from the park manager, who told him not to give in to anyone – Jews, Arabs, everyone!”
The Afula municipality defended the policy, citing 2008 Interior Ministry guidelines saying the purpose of Israel’s so-called Chametz Law, which prohibits businesses in Jewish parts of the country from publicly displaying chametz products for sale or consumption, is “to prevent the display of chametz in the public sphere, to avoid insulting the public and maintain the character of the holiday.”
“The Afula municipal park is a public facility that serves the residents of the city and its environs, and so the public is asked to refrain from bringing chametz into it during the holiday, as is customary in many other public institutions,” …
The city went beyond the chametz prohibitions set forth in Israeli law, “which only talks about selling and businesses, not about parks or private individuals,” said Barak Avivi. “That means the Afula municipality decided to take the law into its own hands, to interpret it as it wants, to discriminate between those who keep kosher and those who don’t.””
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.650785?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
A theocracy, not a democracy. Let me help Netanyahu out with a suggested meme for next Sunday:
‘~Israel is a great deal more dangerous than Iran. It’s a militant Judeocentric, apartheid, Occupying power armed with nuclear weapons that is bent on regional domination, and I am a proven liar and congenital cheater. Just ask any Palestinian or American President!~’