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Video: Netanyahu goes ballistic on Iran at Jewish Federation General Assembly

I've been looking all over for a full video of Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to the North American Jewish Federations General Assembly in Jerusalem Sunday night. This video has the key parts about Iran.

Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.



Yori Yanover reports that Netanyahu is furious that Obama and Kerry are trying to double cross him.

Bibi is feeling swindled by the pair of con artists, Obama and Kerry. He had a deal with those two: Israel would play along with the Palestinians, release more than a hundred prisoners with innocent Jewish blood on their hands, and engage in an honest attempt to bring about the two-state solution – in exchange for an American commitment to do all it can to bring Iran to its knees on the nuclear issue.

In choosing between two existential issues, Netanyahu figured Israel could deal with a Palestinian state as its neighbor—because that's where the talks were expected to go—provided that it didn't have to defend against a nuclear Iran aiming its ICBMs at Tel Aviv.

According to Ma'ariv, the seeds of suspicion were sown back on September 30, during Bibi's meeting with Obama. Despite the efforts back then to present the meeting as good and productive, Netanyahu came away with the notion that the big swindle—America sticking Israel with the peace talks while welcoming Iran back into the family of nations—was only a matter of time.

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Netanyahu was livid when he said last night: "What is being proposed now is a deal in which Iran retains all of that capacity. Not one centrifuge is dismantled. Not one. Iran gets to keep tons of low enriched uranium and they can take these centrifuges, which are not dismantled, in the halls, underground, which are not dismantled – using advanced centrifuges that they've already installed, some of them, that are not dismantled – and they can rush within a few weeks, maybe a couple of months, that's all, and create at the time of their choosing, the fissile material for a bomb."

“We are not blind, and I don’t think we’re stupid,” Kerry told the Washington Post. “I think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe.”

That's not how Bibi sees it. last night he cautioned: "What is Iran targeting when it's building those ICBMs? Not us. They already have rockets to reach us and missiles. They need those ICBMs to reach North America. It'll take them a few years – not many by the way. And they could be nuclear tipped ICBMs. That's the plan coming to a theater near you. Do you want that?"

"Iran must end enrichment at all levels, because they don't need it," Netanyahu insisted. "They must take out from their territory all the fissile material. They must stop the construction of the heavy water reactor in Arak. And Iran must dismantle the considerable military nuclear infrastructure, including the underground facilities and the advanced centrifuges."

The White House is not pushing that very rational point of view, and the prime minister appears ready to go to war over it.

Go to war with whom? Obama or Iran?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Iranian nuclear threat, John Kerry

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:50 AM