Israel's left tries to use Obama against Netanyahu
You had to see this coming. Israel's leftist Kadima and Labor parties are now appealing to Israel's voters not to elect Binyamin Netanyahu Israel's next Prime Minister - because he has a different world view than Barack Hussein Obama. Those of you on the American side of the Atlantic (which is where I am still located this week) will recognize a lot of the talking points.... Netanyahu made a point of being the first Israeli politician to congratulate Obama, sending him a telegram telling him that he was "looking forward to working closely with him to take a fresh look at the problems of the region and to find new ideas to help build a better and hopeful future for all of us."I love Israel and I love the United States of America. Both have made me whom I am today. But the US-Israel alliance is a means to an end and not an end in itself. Each party has to look out for its own interests. While those interests are often identical, no immutable law of nature says that they have to be. Israel is a democracy - and probably a more mature one than the United States was at this point in its history - and it can and will make its own decisions about whom to elect and what policies it wants to adopt.
Advisers to Netanyahu boasted about the successful meetings between the two men that led to Obama introducing legislation for sanctions on Iran a week after they met two years ago, and showing enthusiasm for Netanyahu's plan for building the Palestinian economy when they met in Jerusalem in July.
But Labor and Kadima MKs said that Netanyahu was "too much of a Republican" to get along with Democrat Obama. They warned that electing Netanyahu in the February 10 general election would be a recipe for deteriorating ties between Israel and its closest ally in the world.
Kadima leader Tzipi Livni hinted at Netanyahu when she warned that "if Israel puts itself in a corner and is seen as rejecting diplomatic processes, we could enter an era that is worse than the current one."
"It would be a missed opportunity if we elect Netanyahu," Labor MK Ophir Paz-Pines said. "Netanyahu's English is fluent, but they still won't understand each other. Obama will try to advance the peace process from day one, and he can do it, because he has more trust from the Arab world than his predecessor.
"Then Netanyahu would say no to the Saudi peace plan, no to dividing Jerusalem, no to withdrawing from the Golan. That's why it's so important that the center-Left bloc win our election."
Paz-Pines's Labor colleague, Education Minister Yuli Tamir, added that "Israel and the world cannot move in different directions. The world is going social-democratic and pursuing peace, so Israel cannot choose capitalism and defensive attitudes rejecting diplomatic dialogue."
If Barack Hussein Obama cannot work with Republicans, he has a problem. He doesn't have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and the United States doesn't work on a coalition system like Israel does where the parties who are in the coalition and their members can be forced to vote the way the coalition leaders want them to vote. And if - as often happens - the Republicans win back some of their losses in the 2010 midterm elections, Obama will have no choice but to work for Republicans if he wants to accomplish anything. If he can work with Republicans, he can work with Netanyahu. I don't recall hearing Bill Clinton complain about Netanyahu being 'too much of a Republican.'
Maybe having someone who will not fold and give the new US President everything he wants is what both countries really need right now. It's certainly what Israel needs. The likes of Livni and Pines-Paz or Paz-Pines or whatever he's calling himself this week will be all too fast to give up the country for a penny. Does Tzipi Livni really want to accept the Saudi plan and let hundreds of thousands of 'Palestinian refugees' settle in Israel?
As to Comrade Yuli, maybe she should move to Europe. That's how the euroweenies think too. Maybe she wants to join them in being overrun by Islam.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:37 PM
4 Comments:
Let's be honest...
The "palestinians" do not seek peace..
The seek to destroy the Jewish state, bit by bit, ideal by ideal..
Their plan?
victory by small degrees...
little victories one after another...
1st get the Israelis to seek peace
then discuss borders and issues, they keep getting the maximum from successive administrations
thus never retreating, never losing jack shit...
Peace process?
How about this offer.
Release at once any and all Israelis held captive, stop all violence and incitement at once...
If the demands are not met?
complete cut off gaza, no food water or fuel..
if rockets fly over the border at Israel? rockets should fly back targeting the strip's vital power and water grids...
the rafah border fence should be bombed and the population of gaza DRIVEN into the sinai...
once this is done the complete destruction of gaza city...
the key? do it with 3 days
once the population of gaza is sitting in sinai with UN relief agencies they can provide tents & food & medicine
then Israel can offer peace again with abbas and the west bank...
if peace is rejected?
drive the arabs of the west bank into the country of Jordan...
Now this does sound extreme but an all out actual war will cost far more lives...
Carl, why do you continue to hype Netanyahu as a quality contender???
Netanyahu is also a euro weenie who will cave in when pressured just like his previous record shows... Hebron retreat, last week's honoring Yossi Beilin as a statesman, cow-towing to Barack Nobama, etc. etc.
So what he's Likud? The next land concession will also be officially sanctioned by the Likud and Netanyahu, the Likud appeaser.
Unfortunately, "painful" concessions are in store from him too.
Just another typically weak Israeli politician lacking backbone.
Is this a big world cult or what? Everyone outside of the US are in favor of Obama, and anyone who doesn't join the left-wing illuminati shouldn't be in power.
everyone around the world loves obama because they see weakness,,they see him caving in and making peace,,,the united nation is anti israel anti american,,,,they hated bush because he wouldn't cave although our media has made him weak....are we not seeing history repeating it's self..obma has become a cult figure how that be good for anyone..he'll see he'll have to take sides and we just don't know who ide he'll come down on....his mentor is luis farrakhan...this guy running around saying what a great guy he is.....first they go after our youth then the rest fllows....but where we'll he lead....obama lied stole and cheated in this election the press was silent...he has no substance and soon it well follow...all his friends in hollwywood worship hugo chavez...do you think he;ll go aainst them.....he dosen't like criticism and shuts down anyone who says anyting bad.....we'll have 4 long years with this man...but you in israel must pick a strong leader that well not beforced to give up parts of israel...you gave up gaza and want did you get in return just more missles...we all want peace but at what expense must we pay to get there...not our souls and dignity...hope we all suceed in acheiving peace....
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