Forget Iran Bibi Just Wants to Humiliate Obama on His Own Turf

[Purveyor]

Since the world won't be bound by what Congress decides on the Iran deal, someone in the PM's cabinet should wake up and ask whether he isn’t dragging Israel into a dangerous place with his off-the-rails conduct.

Yossi Verter Aug 07, 2015 11:40 PM

The part of his speech this week at American University in which U.S. President Barack Obama mocked or imitated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intonation in demanding a “better deal” with Iran, will undoubtedly go viral, if it hasn’t already. It was not only humorous in a bitter way, but well timed and full of scorn for its subject.

According to a recent report, broadcaster and comic Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show” until this week, met occasionally with the president to discuss America’s international agenda. Maybe it’ll turn out that Stewart contributed that bit.

In any event, the prolonged confrontation between Obama and Netanyahu over the Iran agreement took a quantum leap this week. Only God knows how Israel could possibly emerge well from this battle, regardless of whether the accord is approved by Congress. Netanyahu was asked about what comes next, after Congress either supports the deal, or votes against it with a majority large enough to supersede a presidential veto. The prime minister did not provide a satisfactory answer. The questioner came away with the impression that he is waging a battle for its own sake, for the satisfaction of humiliating the president. He longs to defeat Obama on the latter’s home turf.

Since the March election, Netanyahu apparently has the feeling that he’s invincible, numero uno. Just as he “doesn’t give a hoot,” as he put it, for those who dared to criticize the brutal dismissal this week of the head of the Electricity Authority, Orit Farkash-Hacohen, for opposing the natural-gas arrangement – he doesn’t give a hoot for Obama, or indeed for the whole world and anyone whose opinion differs from his on the Iran agreement.

He’s convinced that only he is right, that the only truth is his truth and that only he discerns the real dangers, just as his late father was the first to discern the Nazi threat. Maybe we’ll discover in the future that he was right. But now that the agreement is a done deal, and with the rest of the world not being bound by what Congress will decide – someone in his cabinet should wake up and ask whether Netanyahu isn’t dragging Israel into bad and dangerous places with his off-the-rails conduct.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. The rest of the world is NOT bound by what the American Congress decides??? When the fuck did

that happen and no one tell me?

Is there like some kind of international written agreement endorsed by the UN and rest of the world, except Israel and Saudi, that no one told me or anyone else about?

[procon]

2. And the Republicans are eager to help him.

These are the neocons v. 2.0, and they are still so insane that they would start another unwinnable mid-east war over because they can't stand President Obama. Political contributions from pro-Israel billionaires and influential lobbyists make it easier for Republicans to make believe they aren't really traitors.

[Doctor_J]

3. bullshit

Bibi wants war, always. He's not grandstanding or doing this "just to humiliate Obama". He actually despises peace, like the neocons here.