Netanyahu feeling empowered?
Ron Kampeas believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu's appearance at the Jewish Federations General Assembly in New Orleans on Monday shows that Netanyahu feels empowered by the Republican victory in last Tuesday's elections. The sharpest signal of what last week’s elections meant for Jews came not from Washington but from New Orleans, Nova Scotia and Australia.Funny, Netanyahu didn't feel too empowered when it came to Jerusalem, did he?
In New Orleans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech Monday calling for moving beyond sanctions to mounting a “credible military threat” against Iran as a means of avoiding war.
“Containment will not work,” Netanyahu said in his address to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.
The prime minister’s remarks echoed the precise terminology used by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in Nova Scotia two days earlier, when he told the Halifax International Security Forum that “containment is off the table.” The likely new majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), referred to a "credible military threat" in the days before the election.
It was a clear sign that Netanyahu feels empowered by the Republican sweep last week of the House of Representatives to trump the Obama administration’s emphasis on peacemaking with the Palestinians with his own priority: confronting Iran.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Iran, Jewish Federation General Assembly, nuclear weapons
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