Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that a US diplomatic deal with Iran would work only if Tehran’s civilian nuclear facilities are “blown up” under the supervision of the US, terms that would be a non-starter in negotiations with Tehran.
“We agree that Iran will not have nuclear weapons. This can be done by agreement, but only if this agreement is Libyan-style: They go in, blow up the installations, dismantle all of the equipment under American supervision and carried out by America—this would be good,” Netanyahu said in a video statement a day after meeting with President Trump.
Netanyahu’s mention of Libya refers to when former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to dismantle his nuclear weapons program in 2003 and allowed inspectors to verify his progress. Only eight years later, in 2011, Gaddafi was brutally killed by US-backed militants after a NATO airstrike hit his convoy amid a US-NATO bombing campaign.
President Trump has previously criticized John Bolton, his former national security advisor, for suggesting a “Libya-style” model for disarming North Korea back in 2018. “What would Bolton, one of the dumbest people in Washington, know? Wasn’t he the person who so stupidly said, on television, ‘Libyan solution,’ when describing what the US was going to do for North Korea? I’ve got plenty of other Bolton ‘stupid stories,'” Trump said in a 2020 tweet.
In his video statement on Tuesday, Netanyahu also threatened military action if a deal isn’t reached and said he and Trump spoke about the possibility. “The second possibility—that will not be—is that they drag out the talks, and then there is the military option. Everyone understands this. We spoke about this at length,” he said.
President Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if a deal on its nuclear program isn’t reached, even though US intelligence agencies have recently reaffirmed there’s no evidence Tehran is working toward a nuclear weapon.
The US has also undertaken a significant military buildup in the Middle East, which has included the deployment of B-2 bombers that could be used to strike Iran. The buildup comes amid a heavy US bombing campaign in Yemen, which the Trump administration is threatening to escalate.
Amid the tensions, the US and Iran are set to hold high-level negotiations in Oman this Saturday. Iran has made clear it’s willing to reach a deal on its nuclear program but is warning against US military threats.
Israel Hayom reported that Netanyahu and the rest of the Israeli delegation that visited the US were unaware of the plans for the US and Iran to open negotiations. The report said that Netanyahu learned about the scheduled talks right before he and Trump addressed the media together in the Oval Office. “The shock was visible on people’s faces,” one source in the delegation said.
Denuclearize Israel first.
Also defund Israel.
Self-defense for me but none for thee.
Say what? Racist nazis have no rights other than to re-education. Zero tolerance to fascism, below zero to genocide!
Yippee!
Fact Sheet: Israel’s Nuclear Inventory. https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-israels-nuclear-arsenal/
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance
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Those are just guesses, no one actually knows how many nuclear weapons Israel and North Korea have. Some experts put the Israeli total as high as 250+, or the North Korean total as low as 5-10. That's a lot of wiggle room.
I’m sure that Israel and North Korea know how many nuclear weapons they have. The US cannot recognize the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons since foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
Safe to say Benjamin Meilikowski has way overstepped his bounds. Let his arrogance be his demise.
How about a rope in Nuremburg?
100%
"How about a rope in Nuremburg?"
Get the sentiment…but kinda' not into corporal punishment myself…
My idea of justice? Put'em in glass cages, to be displayed in traveling exhibitions in capital cities – for life. As 'Human Monsters of Genocide in Our Time'
To be accompanied by surviving victims of the American-Israeli genocide – with the power to confront the war criminals with their crimes, and to educate viewers who came to see the monsters.
That would be for the engineers of the genocide. Rank and file war criminals would do community service for life in hospitals, tending to the child amputee victims of the genocide they carried out in their depraved little ways.
The support for Israel has been boundless.
It has, among the powers that be. Fortunately, there are huge cracks now in the public’s support for this monstrosity. Unfortunately, as Frederick Douglass stated “power concedes nothing without a demand” and I think the demand on this will have to be off the charts for any real change to occur.
"Unfortunately… demand on [Gaza] will have to be off the charts for any real change to occur."
How's this sound as a rephrase:
A significant minority of progressives and Arab Americans prioritize Gaza. For this electorate, Gaza is a defining-issue "demand."
And – in close elections – this defining-issue demand may exercise disproportionate influence over a larger, low-level-disapproving-of-Israel Democratic electorate and their lawmakers…
…who fear losing an election over 'the Gaza issue.'
"Unfortunately… demand on [Gaza] will have to be off the charts for any real change to occur."
How's this sound as a rephrase:
A significant minority of progressives and Arab Americans prioritize Gaza. For this electorate, Gaza is a defining-issue "demand."
And – in close elections – this defining-issue electorate may exercise disproportionate influence over a larger, low-level-disapproving-of-Israel Democratic electorate and their lawmakers…
…who fear losing an election over 'the Gaza issue.'
I think Iran learned something from what happened to Libya and Iraq, and what has not happened to North Korea. Which is that nuclear weapons are an effective deterrent against foreign aggression. I don't like saying that because I'm against nuclear weapons, but that's the practical reality.
As long as Israel and the US have nuclear weapons it makes sense for Iran to develop its own nuclear deterrent.
The criminal minister spew indicates that Israel would strike the facilities even if there is a deal between Iran and US…!
Iran's religious leaders and its constitution prohibit development of WMD in general and nukes in particular. Shiia Islam is apparently very strongly against the slaughter of innocents and noncombatants, and there is no other use for nukes.
Yea, that is going stop them. Not.
No that wouldn't stop them and that's why Israel wasn't stopped and has nukes.,
And thats why Muslims never do terrorism
Tah ha
I take it you don’t know much if anything about Islam then, or for that matter know any Muslims, and you’ve never spent any time around an oppressed minority group.
I'm sure Ukraine wished they had build nukes also.
But according to 20 years of US intel reports, Iran is not building nukes.
The only definition of sovereignty in the current age is the possession of a formable nuclear arsenal.
Without such a nuclear arsenal a country is and always will be a candidate for subjugation and elimination.
dennis hanna
Absolute Crap…! Iran internationally entitled to peaceful civilian nuclear technology…!
… unless it competes with GE's nuclear fuel business, at which point it must be destroyed or suppressed.
Blow up their own facilities ?? Ain't Gonna Happen. This ultimatum just confirms what I said before – its purpose is to goad Iran into testing a nuke and striking first. Then Israel can incinerate Iran by massive nuclear bombardment, and deport all the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza to the ruins of Iran.
The "willing to reach a deal" link above clarifies Iran's position, which is in no way a capitulation to IsraUS bullying. There's also been plenty of discussion lately about Iran as a military power. Trump is on the edge of a tremendous risk here to bring down the US. And he's ignorant enough to continue with it.
What an idiot! Maybe Netanyahu should agree to "blow up" Israel's nuclear infrastructure and ballistic missiles?
A GANG of CRIMINAL IDIOTS in charge of so-called civilized democracies.
It would be nice to put all of them in a building and drop a 2000 lb. bomb on them.
Hey enlisted, future greeting, “Thank you for your service in making genocide and regime change safe again”.
Hopefully, BB Netanyoyo does not break wind!….!…..!….
AIPAC Tracker ® @TrackAIPAC
A majority (53%) of adults in the U.S. now have an unfavorable view of Israel.
R/Lean R: 37% unfavorable
D/Lean D: 69% unfavorable
R under 50 yo: 50% unfavorable
D under 50 yo: 71% unfavorable
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1909794961056534819
TRACK YOUR CONGRESS MEMBERS
Do your representatives support genocide?
https://www.trackaipac.com/
Those 47% are still brainwashed…!
Once again we are roughly 50/50 divided and the real rulers like it that way. We can fight with each other while they blow things up.
A lot of us don’t fall under either party banner.
That's true, I belong to that group but we are still small in number. I was talking roughly.
Simply making a factual statement, Left sites call me MAGA and Right sites call me a "liberal Marxist". The think "liberal and Marxist" is one adn the same.
Thank you; thank you so very much.
Reality, which is to say action, however, demonstrates in the current age for a nation state to be sovereign a formable nuclear arsenal must be possessed.
Without a formable nuclear arsenal, a country will necessarily be constantly exposed subjugation and elimination.
Historical and current evidence:
Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
Israel:
God’s Chosen People
United States:
American Exceptionalism*
The Earth’s Last Best Hope**
The Indispensable Nation***
The One Indispensable Nation****
A Colonial-settler land.
The Promised Land,
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land with no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Reservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
No!, genocide is here to stay.
Why? Because election year or not Israel's supporters pay United States government representatives to obey.
Wait, all social and economic leaders in America and the "Western World" take Israel's supporters money, it's the only winning game to play.
United States Indians
Israel, PalestinIndians
Different names for the same thing, ethnic cleansing
and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
dennis hanna
[ I was born and raised in Pennsylvania … Penn's (William Penn) … sylvania (forest) …
The indigenous people, Lenape people.(1)
I attended and graduated from the University of California (later named the University of California at Berkeley).
The California Native American Genocide
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region. There were more, far more than one hundred indigenous peoples in California .(2)
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only ask them to think”
Socrates, 470 – 399 B.C.E.
*The first reference to the concept by name, and possibly its origin, was by French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835/1840 work, Democracy in America:
“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.”
**President Abraham Lincoln
Annual Message to Congress — Concluding Remarks
Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.
“… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. …”
***It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Madeleinee K. Albright,
U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001).
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
****"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina. August 27, 2014 ( not the first or last time he uttered these words )
Please note, President Obama
clarified and specified “… the one indispensable nation …”
The President, thus, closed the rhetorical door on any other nation being “indispensable.”
In meaning and use, “the,” definite article, acts as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a “unique” or “a” particular member” of its class; i.e. “the” President as compared to “a” president.
President Obama, of course, knew this being “ivory league” educated at Columbia University (B.A.) and Harvard University (J.D.)
(1) Lenape people of Pennsylvania Name meaning: "Lenape" translates to "the people" or "the real people". Subdivisions: The Lenape were divided into three main groups: the Unami (people downriver), the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean), and the Munsee (people of the stony country). Lifestyle: They were semi-nomadic, living in villages with dome-shaped dwellings called wigwams made from bark, and relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants for sustenance. Impact of European settlement: With the arrival of Colonial-settlers, European, the Lenape were "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided."
Those not "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided" were forced on to and restricted to reservations.
(2) The first comprehensive treatments of this subject were published very recently, in 2012 and 2014. These are An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, and Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan Lindsay. Both authors are professors of history in California.
There are still a few Lenape left in the general area. The Powhatan Renape of Rancocas, Burlington County across the Delaware River. And about 25 years ago I attended a Lenape Festival in Montgomery County, PA. Not a reservation there, but some descendants from Bucks County put on quite an informative demonstration of the culture.
"A majority…of [U.S.] adults…now have an unfavorable view of Israel."
1/ The further good – "Poll finds large shift in opinion since war"
("What do Americans think of Israel? Poll finds large shift in opinion since war," Miami Herald)
2/ The bad – 'foreign policy' ranks 'low importance' for most voters.
That's great. So, just having ANYTHING nuclear is a crime to be snuffed out? If that's the case, what about Israel's nukes and their blackmail use of them directed at the world? Trump is so much on the wrong side of history here and his fealty to Nutty Yahoo and Israel will leave crap stains on his image FOREVER!
The two bullies of the planet are at it again, feeling ever so superior and smug. Why not? They have free reign.
As far as the US is concerned apparently other countries are crawling and begging the king to be nice to them with tariffs.
Trump brags about it daily on TV and social media.
This is a nightmare, the nation is in the hands of a mad MAFIA gang, they have their hands on the treasury and the stock market and the MIC. Trump and Musk are grifters, the gang around them are criminals some involved in sex crimes and fraud, people with shady back grounds. Stupidity alone could not get that far, Trump and his gang play their deranged incompetence very well, they are evil people.
This play may be the biggest hoax of the century, the blundering of an empire. Incompetence alone is not plausible.
i would disarm the serial pyscho killer first before anyone else,doncha think world?
From the river to the sea
I get liberal marxist/fascist
Its like
Are they even trying to form a coherent insult?
Message to Bobo GnatandYahoo, FO.
Hey nerds have you all missed me