Jewish leader talking on C-Span live

eh1eh

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well here's something you don't see every day.

Saudi Arabia: Columnist Stands with Netanyahu, Slams Obama

Saudi Arabia: Columnist Stands with Netanyahu - Middle East - News - Arutz Sheva


and for dessert

Obama has the problem, not Netanyahu

Obama has the problem, not Netanyahu - The Washington Post - Linkis.com

Just to be fair and balanced.



It was paid for by the NIAC, the outfit run by prominent Iranian-American author and pundit Trita Parsi. From their press release:
“The U.S. and its closest allies are on the brink of a historic deal that will both prevent an Iranian bomb and war with Iran, and Congressional hawks are orchestrating political stunts with foreign leaders to try to kill it,” said NIAC President Trita Parsi. “The American people do not want another senseless military adventure and certainly don’t consider Benjamin Netanyahu to be their commander in chief.”​
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I think the U.S. Congress should be embarrassed to let a foreign leader make a campaign speech for his country's elections from the dias of the American national legislature.

The U.S. special relationship with Israel is a fiction. What it is is a prophetic allliance of eschatological (the theology of 'end times') lobbies of Evangelical Christians and Israeli government, which cynically employs it, to give Israel a military and nuclear hegemony in the region, which they have used ruthlessly against subjugate the Palestinians.

The Republicans also use this to solidify a voter demographics.. when for the most part they have no interest in it, except that it facilitates their prime mission of imposing Free Markets and Libertarian ideology on the country. That's why you saw those doddering imbeciles in Congress give ovation after ovation to a mediocre speech delivered by a mediocre politician.
 
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Ex-Mossad chief calls Netanyahu’s Iran speech ‘bulls.h.i.t’



http://tinyurl.com/mzvz7sq



Meir Dagan says current policy vis-a-vis Palestinians will lead to either bi-national or apartheid state




Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Channel 2 interview previewed Thursday, calling his speech before Congress “bulls.h.i.t,” and charging that his policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians endangered the Zionist dream.



“The reality being championed by Netanyahu and [Jewish Home party leader Naftali] Bennett will result in a bi-national state. I think that’s a catastrophe,” Dagan said.

“In the Palestinian arena, [Netanyahu’s] policy will lead … to apartheid,” he told Channel 2 Thursday, adding that such an outcome will “end the Zionist dream.”

The former spymaster, who spent eight years at the helm of Israel’s shadowy intelligence agency, will lead a Tel Aviv rally Saturday night to advocate a change of government.

He has been an outspoken critic of Netanyahu in the past, calling Netanyahu’s judgment on Iran into question.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands as he leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress. (Photo credit: AP/Andrew Harnik)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands as he leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, after addressing a joint meeting of Congress. (Photo credit: AP/Andrew Harnik)

In a snippet from Dagan’s reaction to Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress on Tuesday — which he watched alongside a Channel 2 reporter — Dagan can be seen muttering at the screen “bull****” after Netanyahu makes a point on Iran’s progress in its nuclear program.

The full interview was to be aired Friday night.

“For 45 years I have served this country — all of them dedicated to safeguarding its security as a Jewish and Zionist state. I don’t want that dream to disappear,” Dagan said.

In response, Netanyahu’s Likud party issued a statement accusing Dagan of deceiving the public and noted that the prime minister has worked tirelessly in his efforts to ensure Israel’s continued security.

“Meir Dagan is wrong and misleading,” the statement read.

Netanyahu does not “give in to international pressure” and will not hand over land to the Palestinians because areas submitted to them today will “come under the control of radical Islam and terror groups backed by Iran tomorrow.”

“The prime minister’s speech at Congress reverberated around the world and enunciated the dangers faced by Israel and the world as a result of a bad agreement. There is no doubt that [Netanyahu] challenged the major powers to address these dangers,” the press release stated.






Indeed, there has been much criticism directed at Netanyahu by his fellow Israelis for his appearance before Congress but this has larger been disregarded in the USA.