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So, Any thoughts on Bibi Netantahu's address to Congress

 
 
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 18 Mar, 2015 06:44 pm
@korkamann,
That's why I find it depressing.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Wed 18 Mar, 2015 11:38 pm
@korkamann,
korkamann wrote:
You are correct. Israel has not seen a decent Prime Minister since the assassination.

Your outrageous denials of Israel's peace offers justifies the decision of the Israeli people to never again offer the Palestinians 1967 borders.


korkamann wrote:
But one thing is for certainty, at this time, Israel is on the wrong course with history and the rest of the world.

Why do anti-Semites pretend to speak for the world when they spout their hate?
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 02:34 am
@korkamann,
korkamann wrote:
But one thing is for certainty, at this time, Israel is on the wrong course with history and the rest of the world.


I don't really share your optimism. I remember watching the American ambassador being interviewed on Channel 4 News following the incursion into Gaza, and the killing of almost 300 children. He was pointedly asked what behaviour by Israel would America find unacceptable. He couldn't answer the question.

I think the billions of military aid America gives Israel and the use of its veto in the UN security council are safe whatever happens. If Netanyahu had taken a **** in Congress and then rubbed the speaker's nose in it, those things would still be safe.
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 02:51 am
My first thoughts on the Netanyahu speech was along the lines of 'here we go again '. As the days went by it gradually became clear to more and more that it really had been part of Netanyahu's campaign.

Now that this has happened the waiting begins to see how much time it takes before he fully reverts to his old self. Should not be too long a wait and in the meantime there is severe damage to all.
oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 03:43 am
@Sturgis,
Sturgis wrote:
My first thoughts on the Netanyahu speech was along the lines of 'here we go again '. As the days went by it gradually became clear to more and more that it really had been part of Netanyahu's campaign.

I don't know. I think Mr. Netanyahu genuinely believes that the deal that is being negotiated with Iran is a bad one.

I differ with him on this. I can see the flaws in the deal, but I think that on balance we are better off with the deal than without.

But I think he is honestly presenting his views.


Sturgis wrote:
Now that this has happened the waiting begins to see how much time it takes before he fully reverts to his old self. Should not be too long a wait and in the meantime there is severe damage to all.

What damage would this be?

???
hawkeye10
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 05:20 am
@oralloy,
Iran wants nukes to make it the boss in the neighborhood, being able to destroy Israel is only a small part of that.

In a world were Iran has been able to partner with Putin to decide events in Syria and tonight finds some of Irans best Generals inside Iraq running the Iraq war effort against ISIS does Iran still need nukes? It seems to be backfilling for the departing Americans just fine without them.
revelette2
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 09:41 am
Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration signaled on Wednesday it could take a tougher stance toward Benjamin Netanyahu following his decisive Israeli election victory and campaign tack to the right, saying there will be consequences for his sudden reversal on the idea of an independent Palestinian state.

While senior American officials said the administration was still evaluating options, they suggested the U.S. could ease its staunch opposition to Palestinians turning to the UN Security Council to create a state.

"There are policy ramifications for what he said," one official said of Netanyahu's campaign rhetoric rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state. "This is a position of record."

If Netanyahu holds firm to his opposition to a two-state resolution to the Mideast conflict, it could force whoever sits in the Oval Office — now and in the next administration — to choose between the prime minister and a longstanding U.S. policy with bipartisan support.

Hours after the Israeli election results were finalized, the White House quickly reaffirmed its support for the idea of two independent nations living side by side, a central tenet of peace negotiations led by presidents from both U.S. political parties. And the White House sharply chastised Netanyahu's party for using anti-Arab rhetoric in the lead-up to the election.

"Rhetoric that seeks to marginalize one segment of their population is deeply concerning and it is divisive," Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said.

Frustrated by both Israel and the U.S., Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has become increasingly aggressive in efforts to secure a Palestinian state through other means, including the UN Security Council. The U.S. has veto power on the council and has repeatedly warned Abbas it would block his efforts to use that avenue.

But on Wednesday, a senior administration official said only that the administration was evaluating its options on Security Council action and other possible responses, notably not repeating administration threats to block the Palestinians. A second official confirmed the U.S. could decide not to veto Security Council action.

The officials were not authorized to speak by name about internal deliberations and commented only on condition of anonymity.

Most Republican presidential hopefuls welcomed Netanyahu's victory, but they were notably silent about whether they backed Palestinian statehood. Only Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker weighed in, saying the U.S. goal "must remain a two-state solution."

Former Republican President George W. Bush made a two-state solution a cornerstone of his efforts to secure peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Obama also has pursued Palestinian statehood, most aggressively in a months-long push for peace that ultimately collapsed last year.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner if she enters the 2016 campaign, did not comment on the Israeli elections. As Obama's first secretary of state, she worked closely with Netanyahu and championed an independent Palestinian state.

Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East adviser to secretaries of state from both parties, said it was unlikely a U.S. president of either party would abandon support for Palestinian statehood in the near future.

"I suspect it is the fate of both Democratic and Republican presidents to be caught in a situation in which a two-state solution is too difficult to implement on the one hand and yet too difficult to abandon on the other," said Miller, now a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington.

Netanyahu announced his support for Palestinian statehood in 2009, shortly after Obama became president. He continued to publicly back that position even as he approved new settlements in East Jerusalem, raising questions about his level of commitment.

Earlier this year, the Palestinians joined the International Criminal Court in pursuit of war crimes charges against Israel. Any decision on a possible investigation is now up to the ICC prosecutor.

Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Netanyahu Wednesday. The White House said Obama would speak with the prime minister in the coming days.

The Likud Party's decisive victory in Tuesday's elections marked a stunning comeback in a tight race that put Netanyahu in political jeopardy. In the campaign's closing days, Netanyahu abandoned his public commitment to Palestinian statehood.

While the White House publicly avoided taking sides in the election, it was no secret that Obama and his advisers would have welcomed a change in Israeli leadership. Netanyahu is a fierce critic of Obama's nuclear negotiations with Iran, a country Netanyahu says poses a deadly threat to Israel. Netanyahu also deeply angered the White House by accepting a Republican invitation to address Congress earlier this month and make his case against the emerging outlines of an Iran deal.

Netanyahu's shift on Palestinian statehood now seems certain to deepen the rift with Obama. Despite his past assurances to the West, Netanyahu said this week that any talk of Israel withdrawing from lands it seized in 1967 to make room for a Palestinian state is irrelevant because, in his view, Islamic extremists would seize such territory.

Though the prospects of a peace accord in Obama's final 20 months in office were already slim, Netanyahu's stance slammed shut any hope for a breakthrough without a dramatic shift in the region.

"A push now to try to get to the table would run the risk that you produce negotiations that are bound to fail," said Dennis Ross, a former U.S. Middle East envoy. "What you can't afford now is more failure."


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Olivier5
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 10:10 am
@hawkeye10,
Quote:
In a world were Iran has been able to partner with Putin to decide events in Syria and tonight finds some of Irans best Generals inside Iraq running the Iraq war effort against ISIS does Iran still need nukes? It seems to be backfilling for the departing Americans just fine without them.

That's why they are fine with not having nukes just quite now. They feel strong enough to deter Israel's aggressive stance, and have other priorities right now in Iraq. They also know that the US share their priorities and are in fact supporting their anti-ISIS efforts in Iraq. So they can relax a bit vis-a-vis Israel, who will not bomb them anytime soon.

If Iran gets rid of the sanctions, its economy will most probably boom. US companies will get a taste of this new market and will make sure their stooges in Washington keep the channels open. Iran could become a smaller China. In a decade or two, their GDP already larger than Israel's could grow into twice or thrice the Israeli economy. Then they can buy all the hardware they want, including build a A-bomb if they want to, and the Israelis will just have to learn to respect them.
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 10:20 am
It's hard to believe that this administration took Netanyahu's public stance on a two state solution at face value. He's always been against the idea of a Palestinian state and only changed his position publicly when pressed to talk to the Palestinians in 2010.

All that was accomplished during those talks was kicking-the-can-around, as it were.

Did this administration truly believe anything else would be accomplished?

Now, Foreign Policy is reporting that the administration is mulling whether to force the Zionists into negotiations with the Palestinians through the UN.

It makes me wonder just how much of this is merely theater.
oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 10:35 am
@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Iran wants nukes to make it the boss in the neighborhood, being able to destroy Israel is only a small part of that.

In a world were Iran has been able to partner with Putin to decide events in Syria and tonight finds some of Irans best Generals inside Iraq running the Iraq war effort against ISIS does Iran still need nukes? It seems to be backfilling for the departing Americans just fine without them.

Then Iran should have no problem dropping their illegal quest for nuclear weapons.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 10:35 am
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
That's why they are fine with not having nukes just quite now. They feel strong enough to deter Israel's aggressive stance, and have other priorities right now in Iraq. They also know that the US share their priorities and are in fact supporting their anti-ISIS efforts in Iraq.

Then they should agree to give up their illegal quest for nuclear weapons.


Olivier5 wrote:
So they can relax a bit vis-a-vis Israel, who will not bomb them anytime soon.

Don't count on that. The only reason Israel is holding off is because Mr. Obama pleads with them to hold off and let the US handle it.

If they completely lose faith in Mr. Obama, Israel could bomb Iran tonight.


Olivier5 wrote:
If Iran gets rid of the sanctions, its economy will most probably boom. US companies will get a taste of this new market and will make sure their stooges in Washington keep the channels open. Iran could become a smaller China. In a decade or two, their GDP already larger than Israel's could grow into twice or thrice the Israeli economy. Then they can buy all the hardware they want, including build a A-bomb if they want to,

If Iran shifted course and returned to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, those sanctions would return in a heartbeat, and they would lose that booming economy very quickly thereafter.

And if the sanctions didn't work, bombs would follow.


Olivier5 wrote:
and the Israelis will just have to learn to respect them.

Translation: and then the world would be screwed because Iran would step up the global terrorism once they were backed by a nuclear deterrent (not to mention the problems caused by the ensuing global nuclear arms race).
Olivier5
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 11:13 am
@oralloy,
The nuclear arm race helped maintain peace between the US and the USSR. Same thing will happen with Israel and Iran. A balance of power is necessary for peace. As of now, Israel is too aggressive because it knows that it can afford to. So an Iranian bomb could prove good for world peace, just like a Soviet bomb proved good for world peace.
oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 11:19 am
@revelette2,
Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration signaled on Wednesday it could take a tougher stance toward Benjamin Netanyahu following his decisive Israeli election victory and campaign tack to the right, saying there will be consequences for his sudden reversal on the idea of an independent Palestinian state.

While senior American officials said the administration was still evaluating options, they suggested the U.S. could ease its staunch opposition to Palestinians turning to the UN Security Council to create a state.

If the UN creates a Palestinian state outside the negotiation process, it'll be composed of a bunch of isolated Bantustans, and not one bit more.


Quote:
"There are policy ramifications for what he said," one official said of Netanyahu's campaign rhetoric rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state. "This is a position of record."

If Netanyahu holds firm to his opposition to a two-state resolution to the Mideast conflict, it could force whoever sits in the Oval Office — now and in the next administration — to choose between the prime minister and a longstanding U.S. policy with bipartisan support.

The US is perfectly capable of supporting the idea of a peacefully-negotiated two-state solution and at the same time also supporting an Israeli government who is taking a break from the negotiation process because they are sick of all the lies and double dealing from the Palestinians and their demented supporters.


revelette2 wrote:
Though the prospects of a peace accord in Obama's final 20 months in office were already slim, Netanyahu's stance slammed shut any hope for a breakthrough without a dramatic shift in the region.

It is nice to see Israel standing up for themselves. This might actually be healthy for the peace process long term.

If Israel refuses to bother with more negotiations until all the lies and false accusations stop and until the Palestinians demonstrate that they are actually serious about negotiations, then if negotiations ever manage to resume, they will be much more likely to succeed.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 11:19 am
@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:
It's hard to believe that this administration took Netanyahu's public stance on a two state solution at face value. He's always been against the idea of a Palestinian state and only changed his position publicly when pressed to talk to the Palestinians in 2010.

Netanyahu wasn't the one who prevented negotiations from happening in 2010.


InfraBlue wrote:
All that was accomplished during those talks was kicking-the-can-around, as it were.
Did this administration truly believe anything else would be accomplished?

As long as the Palestinians and their demented supporters choose war over peace, negotiations will never succeed.



It sounds like the Obama Administration is a bit out of touch with reality. Israel has given as much as they are going to give for now.

It is the fault of the Palestinians and the Europeans that they squandered all the many opportunities to negotiate 1967 borders back when Israel was willing to agree to that.

The best thing they can do now is apologize to Israel and stop all the lies and hate, and then wait a few generations for Israeli tempers to cool before negotiating again, this time in good faith.


InfraBlue wrote:
It makes me wonder just how much of this is merely theater.

So long as Israel's opponents continue to act in bad faith, every bit of it is theater.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 11:33 am
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
The nuclear arm race helped maintain peace between the US and the USSR. Same thing will happen with Israel and Iran.

That "peace" was a disaster for millions of people whose lives were destroyed because the world was unable to oppose the Soviets.

Even if it were somehow a good idea to inflict a similar disaster on the world by giving Iran impunity to conduct their terrorism, there is also the disaster that would come from the end of the NPT and the spread of nuclear weapons around the world.


Olivier5 wrote:
As of now, Israel is too aggressive because it knows that it can afford to.

That is silly. If anything, Israel is not nearly aggressive enough.


Olivier5 wrote:
So an Iranian bomb could prove good for world peace, just like a Soviet bomb proved good for world peace.

An Iranian bomb would bring about two results. First, there would be a dramatic increase in terrorism around the world.

Second, the NPT would dissolve and nations around the world would develop nuclear weapons. The US would resume nuclear testing and expand our nuclear arsenal back to Cold War levels, and would begin sharing nuclear weapons technology with many of our allies. Eventually there would be a nuclear war somewhere in the world, probably between two nations that today we can't even imagine with nuclear weapons.
Olivier5
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 01:09 pm
@oralloy,
Quote:
Second, the NPT would dissolve and nations around the world would develop nuclear weapons.

The NPT is already dead. Within the treaty, nuclear-weapon states agreed to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals. And yet not much of that ever happened. The US, the Russians, France and the Brits are all in breach of their NPT commitments.

Quote:
Eventually there would be a nuclear war somewhere in the world, probably between two nations that today we can't even imagine with nuclear weapons

And you're worried about that because?...
oralloy
 
  -1  
Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 01:25 pm
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
The NPT is already dead. Within the treaty, nuclear-weapon states agreed to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals. And yet not much of that ever happened. The US, the Russians, France and the Brits are all in breach of their NPT commitments.

The US and Russia are not in breach. Both nations continue to draw down our arsenals, while not doing any further nuclear testing and not sharing our weapons technology with anyone.

If Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons however, the US will be free to resume nuclear testing, expand our arsenal back up to Cold War levels, and hand out nuclear weapons technology to whomever we please. And don't think we won't do it.


Olivier5 wrote:
oralloy wrote:
Eventually there would be a nuclear war somewhere in the world, probably between two nations that today we can't even imagine with nuclear weapons.

And you're worried about that because?...

I'm allergic to strontium. It makes my bones itch.

Are you so eager to see the bad guys acquire illegal weapons that there is no disaster that you're not willing to see inflicted on the planet?
Olivier5
 
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Reply Thu 19 Mar, 2015 01:58 pm
@oralloy,
Quote:
If Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons however, the US will be free to resume nuclear testing, expand our arsenal back up to Cold War levels, and hand out nuclear weapons technology to whomever we please. And don't think we won't do it.

Be my guest.

Quote:
I'm allergic to strontium.

Boycott the Japanese then. Fukoshima is pumping massive amounts of radioactive material in the sea.
 

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