Benjamin Netanyahu invokes Pastor Martin Niemoller, at least subtly, in his otherwise explicit condemnation of the United Nations for giving Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a spot on the agenda at Turtle Bay this week. The Israeli Prime Minister hails the nations that had the “moral clarity” to walk out of the room when Ahmadinejad spoke, which thankfully included the United States as well as Canada. After that, though, Netanyahu spoke as directly as one will ever hear in diplomatic circles:
He’s completely correct, of course. The UN was created with dictators like Ahmadinejad and the regime using him as a mouthpiece in mind — but not to have as an honored guest. The UN was meant to stop regimes like the one in Tehran from talking genocide openly, not to host luminaries of lunacy like the dimunitive Iranian.
It’s a disgrace, especially since it’s clear that the UN has no shame at all.
Here’s most of the rest of the speech, which is powerful indeed. When it gets posted in its entirety, I’ll replace both clips with the full speech:
Since the Israelis are the target of an Iranian extermination plan, they cannot afford the luxury of a Pollyana, cafe-debate world view like Barack thinks is so modern and "cool".
ReplyDeleteIsrael can go-it-alone if she has to... the IDF probably has the military capacity already to not only bomb Iran, but win the wider Middle East war that is likely to result.
Unlike vs. Hezbollah in 2006, the Israelis will fight this one to win, and win BIG... vs. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and the rump Hamas. The IDF will go ALL-out too, with infantry and armor from day one.
Team Obama would be well-advised to keep an eye on the horizon anytime they're visiting their new pals in Tehran... for a formation of Israeli F-16's coming-in at Mach 2.
The Israelis did us all a huge favor in 1983, taking out Saddam's reactor in the face of world condemnation... and they'll they'll take care of business again. Unfortunately, Israel is used to such misguided and ignorant moralizing- same as they've dealt with for years.
As for Obama, polls show their populace has completely turned against him, they don't care what this smiley plastic mannequin has to say anymore... as he turns the US into an irrelevant, impotent bystander.
Sorry about him, Israel- most Americans still support you.
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