[Peace-discuss] current public count: 36 Dems skipping Bibi speech

[C. G. Estabrook]

<http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.644693>

Benjamin Netanyahu did not “ruin” or “destroy” Israel’s relations with the United States. Too bad, because few things have corrupted Israel more than its warped relations with America... 

Washington will continue to blindly finance, arm and support Israel in all its wars and occupations, with Netanyahu or without him...

Yes, Netanyahu is a bad prime minister, though not much worse, if that, than most of his predecessors. He has embarked on fewer unjustified wars than Ehud Olmert, he has built fewer settlements than Ehud Barak (relative to his time in office), and he’s apparently less corrupt than Ariel Sharon. Israel’s situation in many areas has deteriorated during his term, but this process didn’t start when he took over and will not end when he leaves.

...considering Netanyahu's rivals Herzog, Tzipi Livni, Yair Lapid and Moshe Kahlon - much less will change if they take power than is projected in the demonization campaign.

...It’s not that there isn’t anything to attack him for — the list of damage is long — but the exaggerations and focus on him alone have made the campaign suspect.

On Tuesday he’s speaking at a joint session of Congress. Israeli analysts, who never step outside the consensus of the herd, will compete over who shoots better barbs at him and who better describes the “historic” damage his speech will cause U.S.-Israeli relations. But soon a new squadron of the latest fighter jets will land here, supplied by the United States to Netanyahu’s Israel so it can bomb Gaza once again. 


On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/democrats-skipping-netanyahu_b_6770734.html
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