Benjamin Netanyahu must be a happy man. He’s been yearning to draw a red line and now, in front of an assembly of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, he’s done just that.
Here’s Bibi with bomb:
Bibi's bomb
And here comes the red marker pen. Voila! A red line has been drawn.
Bibi's red line
There’s a fitting irony at a time when Muslims get mocked because a few among their ranks get irate about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, that one of the arch demonizers of Islam, Benjamin Netanyahu, would allow a cartoon bomb to blow up in his face.
The Israeli prime minister even managed to embarrass one of his most reliable American defenders, Jeffrey Goldberg:
Okay, it’s official: #Netanyahu has no idea what he’s doing. He has just turned a serious issue into a joke.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 27, 2012
Still, Netanyahu can’t take all the blame. He had accomplices in this bomb-making event. An artist was employed. Perhaps there was a meeting of Netanyahu’s inner cabinet. The graphic was displayed. The assembled all agreed: this’ll show the world.
Darn right! But maybe it didn’t signal the intended message.
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With levity, can the the men in white suits and butterfly nets be far behind? The pressure[s] of the job has gotten to him-Bibi-the salesman. If this display doesn’t convince the world to pull away from the brink of what just may be a disaster for not only the M.E., but perhaps the world, then maybe everyone else is nuts too!
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it’s like i tell my brother
[one of them]
‘if you ever touch me,
you better kill me,
’cause your life is
gonna be hell,
from thereon in.’
- same principle-
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It seems pretty clear that Iran is trying to obtain nuclear weapons. And it seems equally clear that some powerful interests do not want that to happen. I think we are very close to war. And Iran is not going to win that war. But it will be a mess.
Netanyahoo is a comical thug who wants the U.S. to do his nation’s dirty work. He reminds one of Kruschev making a fool of himself pounding the podium at the U.N.
There is no evidence that Iran has even decided to pursue a nuclear weapon. U.S. intelligence agencies have made this assessment and Mossad agrees with their conclusions. So why do we have the severe sanctions on Iran?
Bibi’s messianic aspirations are about to explode and bring Israel down with him.