Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Netanyahu’s Speech 3-4-2015

4, March 2015                        Netanyahu’s Speech

Alarmist rhetoric theme has long been a staple of Mr. Netanyahu’s career. In an interview with the BBC in 1997, he warned that Iran was  “building a formidable arsenal of ballistic missiles,”  and urged nations to join him to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability, stressing that “time is running out.” Earlier, as a Member of Parliament, in 1992, he predicted that Iran would be able to produce a nuclear weapon within three to five years. His speech last Tuesday, bore a strong resemblance to his testimony before the House government affairs committee in 2002 warning of Iraq’s possession of Centrifuges “the size of washing machines.” His own intelligence service, the Mossad, categorically rejected Netanyahu’s dire warnings. So where is Netanyahu obtaining his information? He seems to be using President George Bush’s playbook in injecting massive doses of fear to rally feckless Congressional members behind his bogus claims. His speech was pure theatre designed to scuttle Obama’s effort to reach a peaceful accord with Iran, forestall further conflict and offer a workable paradigm to degrade ISIS’s reign of terror.

Netanyahu maintains the mantra of existential threats to deflect from mounting criticisms of Israel’s illegal settlement activity, war crimes committed in Gaza, and the very legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians to have their own independent state.  His ‘get tough on Iran’ speech was targeted to  Israeli voters portraying himself as a ‘Churchillian’ personality deserving a third term in office. Finally, Israel should follow Iran’s example and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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