netanyahu9

The prime minister is helpless in the face of the terror wave, the riots in Jerusalem and the impending deal between Iran and the West. All that’s left for him to do is issue press statements.

HAARETZ

Cabinet ministers in the last couple of days have sounded like the aggressive Internet commenters whom President Reuven Rivlin talked about in his speech to the opening of the Knesset’s winter session. Rivlin, perhaps the only responsible person in the national leadership, described how people called him a “traitor” and “Hezbollah’s president” for daring to empathize with Israel’s Arab citizens.

But the ministers who listened to that speech two weeks ago evidently weren’t impressed. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman praised the policemen who shot and killed an Israeli Arab in Kafr Kana for acting “resolutely and effectively” against terrorists. Economy Minister Naftali Bennett termed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “a terrorist in a suit who should be treated accordingly.” And Housing Minister Uri Ariel demanded that “the security forces’ bound hands be untied so they can crush the head of the snake.”

But the prize for extremist aggression goes to the Internet commenter from the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem, one Benjamin Netanyahu.

It began Saturday night, when the first task Netanyahu gave new Interior Minister Gilad Erdan was to look into stripping the citizenship of Arab Israelis who acted “against the state” or assaulted policemen. Then, at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, he attacked the Israeli left when he told Environment Minister Amir Peretz, “For you guys, if you haven’t evacuated [settlements], you haven’t done anything,” and “For you guys, the only initiative is to jump off a cliff and capitulate.”

But the climax came during Monday’s Likud faction meeting, when Netanyahu said that any Israeli, Jewish or Arab, who “demonstrates in favor of a Palestinian state [in Israel’s place] or calls for Israel’s eradication” should go live in the Palestinian Authority or Gaza Strip. Suddenly the statement by his patron Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Netanyahu mouthpiece Israel Hayom, that it wouldn’t be so terrible if Israel weren’t a democracy, sounded more relevant and frightening than ever.

Netanyahu’s growing extremism illustrates above all that elections are approaching. The prime minister is watching his one electoral asset – his image as someone who knows how to fight terror and deliver quiet – go down the drain. And he understands that in the battle against Lieberman and Bennett for leadership of the right, if you haven’t spoken aggressively, you haven’t done anything.

But politics aside, Netanyahu looks like someone who is genuinely losing it. On one hand, there’s the wave of terror attacks and the worsening security situation in the West Bank; on the other, there’s a genuine intifada in Jerusalem; on the third, there’s growing international isolation; on the fourth, there’s the impending deal between Iran and the West. Netanyahu has no answer for any of these, nor is there anyone he can blame. So all that’s left for him to do is issue press statements.

In recent weeks, Netanyahu’s conduct has increasingly recalled that of his mentor, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Like Shamir, Netanyahu champions the status quo. Like Shamir, he’s been beset by a serious crisis with Washington and a wave of stabbing attacks. And, also like Shamir, he’s liable to find himself out of a job after the next election.

0 thoughts on “Netanyahu’s escalating rhetoric is a sign he’s losing it”
  1. With this kink of personalty, Netanyahu doesn’t have to worry about his future… I am sure he will have a good job at the US State Department….

  2. my understanding is his retirement package includes a long stint in a really
    warm environment…
    with a “countless” number of his co-religionists and their progenitor
    Jewtopia

  3. “All that’s left for him to do is issue press statements”
    Or he and his Hebrew Klansmen can decide to start another war with one of the countries nearby.
    Jew media will give him cover…and if he starts with Iran, the Lobby will make sure AmeriKa lines up her cannon fodder accordingly, for tis an honor for the goy cattle to fight and die in defense of Israel.

  4. My response to Bibi, via twitter:
    @netanyahu. Dear #BIBI. You’re a flippin’ nutbag #Terrorist & we’ve had enuff! http://wp.me/p2dGk-jcu via @wordpressdotcom Love, Humanity
    ***********
    The guy IS A FREAK. He Has LOST it. I honestly think this has not a thing to do with elections coming up. This is just Bibi, always..

  5. ya know i’m not so sure we can pin labels on Sociopaths like Nttyahoo ~ really there’s no (sane) template you can dredge up that indicates he has ‘lost it’ wtf does that mean anyhow. Does the following sound like the wheels have come off the Zionist intent or means to push it? Not to me it doesn’t. This virulent PoS is as potent as ever ~ We’ve no time to fiddle with some machinations this ‘lost it’ is going to bring on cardiac arrest ~ i do what i can to arm ppl with some insight and perspective/ bumper stickers Stop the Blank Check & Palestinian Human Rights/ some to be in the people face. If we were allowed to go there and fight in someway with the Pals i’d do it.
    Bibi as always (contrast and compare:): same jingoist bellicose drama ~ but potent as ever.
    Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
    April 16, 2008
    According to Ma’ariv, Netanyahu said Israel is ‘benefiting from attack’ as it ‘swung American public opinion.’
    The Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.
    “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events “swung American public opinion in our favor.”
    Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.
    Meanwhile, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
    “Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names,” Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
    “Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq.”
    Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran’s nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.
    Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that “where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons,” he said. “This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict.”
    __________________________________________________________________
    FLASHBACK: Netanyahu Said Iraq War Would Benefit The Middle East
    BY HAMED ALEAZIZ POSTED ON OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 2:41 PM
    Benjamin Netanyahu on CNN’s State of the Union
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterdaytold a Paris-based magazine that a military strike on Iran would be beneficial to the region. Netanyahu’s statement was published on the eve of a meeting with French President Francois Holland, during which the two planned to discuss the Iran issue among other topics. Netanyahu cited Iran’s lack of popularity in the Middle East:
    “Five minutes after, contrary to what the skeptics say, I think a feeling of relief would spread across the region…Iran is not popular in the Arab world, far from it, and some governments in the region, as well as their citizens, have understood that a nuclear armed Iran would be dangerous for them, not just for Israel.”
    Sound familiar? Netanyahu’s statement echoes a point that he made in 2002, when he advocated for a strike on Iraq on the grounds that, among other things, it would benefit the region:
    “If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you that it will haveenormous positive reverberations on the region…the test and the great opportunity and challenge is not merely to effect the ouster of the regime, but also transform that society and thereby begin too the process of democratizing the Arab world.”
    It hardly bears repeating that Arabs in the Middle East did not react favorably to the Iraq war. The year the war began, the Los Angeles Times reported from Syria and found that negative views of America had hardened. One Syrian told the Times ”What they are doing is worse than what Saddam [Hussein] has done.” Brookings Institution polling from 2003 backed up the anecdotes. More than 60 percent of Arabs saw the Iraq war causing “less peace” in the region and more than 70 percent said it would result in “more terrorism.” Shelby Tahimi, a Middle East expert and the creator of the poll, found an “unprecedented tide of public opinion running against the United States” after the Iraq war.
    In the end, the war did not have “positive reverberations” for Arabs in the region. An anti-war group reported this year that over a 100,000 civilians died in the war. The violence spread to other countries as well: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq in the early 2000s, organized a vicious bombing campaign in Jordan, killing 54 people at hotels across Amman. Sectarianism in Iraq grew exponentially, often times with Iran reportedly supporting Shiite militants, and thousands died in Iraq as a result. A reportpublished earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former U.S. defense and diplomatic officials said a strike on Iran would cause similar regional chaos:
    “A dynamic of escalation, action, and counteraction could produce serious unintended consequences that would significantly increase all of these costs and lead, potentially, to all-out regional war.“
    This time, Netanyahu is referencing Iran’s unpopularity, likely referring to well-known animosity between the leaders of several Gulf nations and Iran. In 2010, after Wikileaks exposed U.S. diplomatic cables, Arab leaders’ hostile views of Iran were undeniable. In one cable, a Saudi official explained the “King’s frequent exhortations to the U.S. to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program.” The official added in what is now a well-known phrase that the King had said to “cut off the head of the snake.” Another cable quoted Bahrain’s King Hamed ibn Isa Khalifa telling Gen. David Petraeus that Iran’s nuclear program “must be stopped.” Qatar, according to a different Wikileaks cable, reportedly said the U.S. could use a military base on its land.
    But when it comes to the general Arab population, the numbers tell a different story. Polling shows that while a majority of Arabs see Iran as playing a negative role in the region, a majority also feel that Iran has the right to a civilian nuclear program.
    _________________________________________________________
    Israel PM Netanyahu on Iraq Crisis: When Enemies Are Fighting Each Other, Weaken Both
    June 23, 2014
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Cherie Cullen / WikiCommons.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told journalists at the Jewish Media Conference, in Jerusalem, that rather than choosing to support either side in Iraq’s ongoing sectarian conflict, the best solution is to weaken both.
    Netanyahu said, “We cannot correct in the near future this tragedy, neither in Syria nor in Iraq. Both camps, the radical Shi’ites led by Iran and the radical Sunnis led by Al-Qaeda and ISIS and other organizations, they’re enemies of our civilizations. They’re enemies of humanity. They’re enemies of Israel. They’re enemies of the United States. They’re enemies of every country that is represented here by you.”
    “When your enemies are fighting one another, don’t strengthen either one of them. Weaken both,” he said. “There are things that can be done to blunt the ISIS takeover of Iraq, just as there are things that must be done to blunt Iran’s takeover of Iraq so that what happened in Lebanon and Syria is not replicated.”
    “What is happening here now is that the centuries-old hatred between Sunnis and Shi’ites have now been uncorked with the collapse of the secular regimes, mostly dictatorships, that have contained this,” Netanyahu said. “They’ve collapsed and the Shi’ite militancies are fighting the Sunni militancies with greater and greater venom and barbarism and everyone gets caught in between. This is a fault line between civilization and savagery.”
    Netanyahu told the contingent of more than a hundred Jewish journalists, in Jerusalem for the first summit of its type, that “in historical perspective, the most important thing is to make sure that a militant regime, a militant Islamic regime or a militant Islamic movement does not get its hands on the weapons of mass destruction. That is the number one imperative of our times.”
    He said that, while incomplete, the process to remove chemical weapons and their means of production from Syria must be replicated in Iran to not allow the Islamic Republic to gain a nuclear weapon. He said Iran is developing long-range missiles for the sole purpose of carrying nuclear warheads.
    Netanyahu said: “Now, while the Syrian conflict was not solved, what was achieved there in this realm was important. The agreement to get rid of the chemical weapons in Syria was important. And it’s almost completed – over 90%, much more even, has been removed. Notice what I said: Removed. The chemical stockpiles, the weapons, the means to manufacture chemical weapons – they’ve been removed, taken out of Syria. And that task should be completed.”
    “That is not the deal that is now, I fear, being negotiated with Iran,” he said. “Rather than dismantle and remove, what is being discussed with Iran is to keep and inspect. Very different. In other words, most of the sanctions would be lifted from Iran and most of the capability would be left in Iran. Bad. Exceedingly bad and exceedingly dangerous for the future of the world – not only the region, not only Israel, the world.”
    “Iran is developing ICBMs, intercontinental ballistic missiles. They don’t need it for Israel. They don’t need it for attacking us. They’re intended to attack anyone within thousands and thousands of kilometers of their range, and ICBMs have only one purpose: To have nuclear bomb warheads.”
    Allowing any Islamist group to gain nuclear weapons would be “the height of folly,” Netanyahu said.
    “This will change history. It will be a pivot of history in a catastrophic way. That should not happen,” he said. “If there is one message that needs to be put out today it is: Don’t let Iran on the sidelines of this conflict in Iraq have nuclear weapons capability because sooner or later – and it’s sooner rather than later – they’ll have atomic bombs. That should be prevented.”
    In the long history of the Jewish people, Netanyahu said, “if there’s one thing we learned… it is that we have to identify danger in time and take action against it in time.”
    “When the Jewish people failed to do that, we paid a horrendous price – the most horrendous price that any people have paid in history and we have learned that lesson,” he said.
    Netanyahu said that “the rising tide of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe,” is “an amalgamation of three forces: hard Left, hard Right and the Islamist anti-Semitism.”
    “We’ve seen the bloody consequences of this hatred in Toulouse and in Brussels and elsewhere. And we have to fight it,” he said, referring to the murder of Jews by Islamists in both cities. “We cannot accept it. I think that we have to speak out against it forcefully. The only way you defeat a lie is with truth, with facts, with courage.”
    In the U.S., he said that the “huge support for the State of Israel,” which he described as being at “an all-time high,” has been marred by the Presbyterian Church USA’s recent vote to divest from Israel.
    He said that he “would ask them to come to the Middle East and look around. This is what they choose to do today when the Middle East is fragmented in this horrible war, this savage war, savagery between militant Shi’ites and militant Sunnis.”
    “Hundreds of thousands are being slaughtered, millions are displaced, Christians are fleeing for their lives, churches are burnt,” Netanyahu said. “The only place where you have freedom, tolerance, protection of minorities, protection of gays, protection of Christians and all other faiths is Israel.”
    “So I suggest to them to take a plane, come here and then if we can manage it, let’s arrange a bus tour for them in the region,” he said. “You know, let them go to Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq. And my only suggestion for them is that – well, I have two suggestions for them. One, that it be an armor-plated bus; and two, that they shouldn’t announce that they’re Christians.”
    “Israel is the only place, it’s the only beacon of light, of true freedom, true tolerance, in this very large expanse between Gibraltar and the Khyber Pass,” the Israeli prime minister said.
    ____________________________________________________________

  6. Maybe he needs to forge a deal with ISIS so that he can “save Israel” from a false flag attack by them….. Bibi just wants another war, dammit! Give the boy his war! On the condition he personally lead the troops into battle.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Discover more from The Ugly Truth

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading