When the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran was announced early Tuesday, everyone knew what was coming next. After spending decades railing against Iran’s nuclear program and months claiming the negotiations were a threat to Israel, there was no calming Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu down.
A day later, world leaders are starting to fire back with surprising openness, lashing Netanyahu for his insincerity. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond insisted no deal would’ve been good enough for Netanyahu, and that what he really wanted was a “permanent standoff” with Iran.
President Obama seemed a little less interested in placating Netanyahu today as well, giving his usual lip service on Israeli security concerns but insisting Netanyahu never provided a valid alternative to the deal, and said the deal was a fair sight better than war.
The criticisms are all fairly obvious, and the real news is how publicly they’re being made by high profile officials, and how quickly. This underscores a growing problem faced by Netanyahu internationally, compounding domestic criticism over his botched lobbying against the deal.
Israelis must see Netanyahu’s effort one of two ways. Either he was correct that the deal means the end of Israel, and failed despite his promises to stop it, or he was incorrect about the deal and is alienating the international community by continuing to complain. Neither puts him in a particularly favorable light.
Actually, a third way is there for land grabbing settlers to see this deal, for the less harmful toward Israel does Iran appear, surely the less tolerance are the American voters toward the use of their tax dollars to steal Palestine land at gun-point.
I am Jewish! Benjamin Netanyahu makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. What a complete embarrassment Netanyahu is to to state of Israel and the Jewish people. This man is a charlatan and a bafoon.
Israel's worst enemy is its own government!
The American people are in a similar dilemma. The self-serving sycophants for power and avarice in Washington, DC are the poison that must be eradicated from the nation.
no ones gives a shit that you a are a Jew…should we be impressed?
who are you kidding goebbbels boys for Israeli media propaganda
This man was voted in by what we are told is a democracy but what has happens is that it has been exposed as a sophisticated terrorist organization.
The only thing that could have improved the situation would have been to reach the Iran agreement prior to the Israeli election. It surely would have sealed Bibi's fate. Pity.
But this has sealed Israels fate now..
They wanted this!!
Mr. Hammond got it right! "Permanent standoff" has been Nothin-ya-who's goal all along. He just doesn't want any challenges from any country in the ME! He should be thrown under the bus!!
What on Earth does my President mean by "the only alternative is war"? That was the mantra in 1914 and 1939. Actually it has always been the justification for every war. And who was going to wage war against Iran on what grounds? The same shaky grounds by which our nation attacked Iraq? Do I have to be happy that he has saved me from being involved in another World War? No. I am alarmed.
I am glad that an agreement has been reached but I do not laud this Napoleon imitator when his predecessor shook the hands of Czar Alexander I at Tilsit. And invaded Russia later anyway because that was "the only alternative".
This is what most folks do not know! Jul 4, 2012 Hamas, An Israeli Creation
November 18, 2012 Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda
Creating the Enemies We Now Fight Against We’ve extensively documented that the U.S. and Israel created Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in an attempt to fight other enemies.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/israel-and…
This terrorist organization israel has pulled it's own rope!