Thanks to Netanyahu, Israel support turns into a political football

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/netanyahu-support-political-football

It’s the speech that keeps on giving! There are more signs that thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly-anticipated speech to Congress this coming Tuesday we are starting to get an actual robust debate in this country about Israeli policies.

First, friends are passing around this great cartoon in the New York Times, by Patrick Chappatte, which is pegged to Netanyahu’s speech. Netanyahu wants to build a settlement on Pennsylvania Avenue! So Netanyahu’s big moment is triggering a conversation about Israel’s unending occupation. Trita Parsi:

Not long ago, this carton in NYT was inconceivable. Thanks to Netanyahu’s overeach, it’s a reality now

Next, here’s a crazy ad from the Emergency Committee for Israel that paints Obama as a glowering madman — “holding secret talks with Iran” — and Netanyahu as a teddy bear/supreme leader. The ad’s target is Hillary Clinton.

Sorry, I can't post the cartoon here. The criers would undoubtedly alert on it.

[peacebird]

1. Bibi helped Bush get his war on in Iraq, now he wants to shoot down any diplomatic effort with Iran

[kelliekat44]

2. Guess who is calling for "regime change" in Israel?

"Israel, he pointed out, "has never signed any international convention regarding nuclear weapons. Israel refuses to allow international inspections. It would have been better, therefore, for Israel to remain on the sidelines. We will support any effort – intelligence or political – but we should always remain in the background."

Which doesn't mean that Israel has been doing nothing, Dagan stressed. "The first sanctions that were imposed on Iran in 2003 were because of Israel," and he acknowledged that Israeli clandestine operations had succeeded in delaying the Iranian nuclear program.

"When I stepped down as director of the Mossad in 2011, I said that Iran would not have nuclear weapons before 2015. I hate to say it, but I was right."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.644574