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Netanyahu Signals Determination on Iran, But War Will Have to Wait
Had he been speaking Hebrew in a dramatic TV broadcast back home, parts of Benjamin Netanyahus fire-and-brimstone speech Tuesday night might have been mistaken for the words of an Israeli prime minister about to launch a fateful war. He painted Irans nuclear program as an apocalyptic extermination threat redolent of the Nazi Holocaust, stressed Israels power and responsibility to prevent a repeat of the greatest trauma in Jewish history, and vowed that As Prime Minister of Israel, I will never let my people live under the shadow of annihilation.But Netanyahu was speaking in English, to the America Israel Public Affairs Committees annual policy conference in Washington D.C. a forum whose raison detre is to leverage Israels cause in U.S. domestic politics. His purpose there was clearly to rally his considerable bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and beyond to maintain pressure on the Obama Administration to move closer to Israels red lines, timelines and perspective for action to stop Irans nuclear program. For now, however, the Administration has resisted his pressure. Weve waited for diplomacy to work, he told the assembled Israel partisans at AIPAC, which included three quarters of members of Congress. Weve waited for sanctions to work. None of us can afford to wait much longer. Posted by: tipper 2012-03-06 |
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