Middle East Cage Match: Bibi or Barry?
Was Winston Churchill “in real trouble” when he took over from Neville Chamberlain in 1940 after war had broken out? Not at all — the English supported Churchill because they could see no alternative to war. Churchill projected strength, and that is what they needed most of all. It was Chamberlain who had to resign as prime minister and apologize in public for his failed appeasement policy. Chamberlain was in trouble, not Churchill.
This week the pundits seem to have decided all together that Benyamin Netanyahu is in real trouble today, supposedly because Barack Obama has “humiliated him” and put him in a double bind. It ain’t so, and the attempt by leftoids to portray Netanyahu as “humiliated” is nonsense.
Yes, Obama, in his usual subtle fashion, attempted to humiliate Netanyahu. But Obama is also an expert liar and faker, who believes that “the appearance of power” is power. It’s all by the book, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
This whole media narrative is nonsense, for any number of reasons. Here are just some.
1. Humiliation?
Someone can spit in my face to try to humiliate me. Whether I am therefore humbled and shamed — actually humiliated — as a result of that is up to me. Netanyahu comes from a people who thugs and gangsters have attempted to humiliate throughout history. Egyptian slavery is humiliation, but it became part of the defining narrative of the Jews. In the Hebrew Bible every single imperial power in the neighborhood invades the land of Israel and the land of Judah. They still keep their identity — and they are not really as peaceful as they’re sometimes cracked up to be. The dynamic of humiliation by an enemy followed by fierce resistance is pretty much coded in their biblical genes.
The same thing goes on in the Christian Bible. The Romans were brutal conquerors, after all, and Jesus was a rebel against Imperial Rome and its local puppets. So there’s nothing new about resistance to thuggery in the history of Israel.
2. Netanyahu isn’t Obama
Most men and women in Israel have faced the possibility of violent death – not just their own, but that of their children and parents. Israel was founded by such people. They train and train to meet that danger without flinching, if there is no alternative. Jonathan Netanyahu, Bibi’s brother, was killed at Entebbe leading a rescue raid of Air France air passengers who were being held hostage by thugocrat Idi Amin. Bibi’s father fought with the Irgun. His kids have done their service in the IDF.
Netanyahu is a hundred times the man Obama could ever be. Obama is a manipulator, an ideologue, and a liar. He sat for twenty years at the feet of a real racial hate monger, Jeremiah Wright. There is simply no doubt about these facts. Even the Democrats can’t deny it anymore.
Would you bet on a Chicago pol against an Israeli special ops guy? I wouldn’t.
3. More support
Since Obama administered his “public humiliation,” more Israelis and friends of Israel have come out in support of Israel and its prime minister than ever before. This isn’t personal. Netanyahu is the highest elected official of a sovereign people. Imagine Gorbachev trying to publicly humiliate Ronald Reagan in this way. How would Americans have felt? Even the Democrats would have had to fake a little public protest to cover their rears.
Only 9% of Israelis now believe that Barry is actually pro-Israel. The mask is off. In addition, the Israeli left is now being deeply embarrassed. This is important because it is a very delusional left, just like ours. The parliamentary opposition can’t afford to look like they are kneeling down to Barack Obama, or they will lose whatever popular support they still have.
Why do Americans never get their facts right about WW11? War was declared on 3rd December 1939. Churchill took over from Neville Chamberlain in May 1940. NOT 1938. Churchill was not elected. He was not popular within his own party but no-one else was prepared to take on the job of Prime Minister after Chamberlain resigned.
Steven M. Goldberg has written an interesting analysis at the American Thinker blog, ”Israel’s Crisis & Opportunity” …..
I can tell you that public opinion is far angrier than reports in our media seem to indicate. Our media is as left-leaning as the very lame American mainstream media. No one should ever misunderstand our criticism – we are America’s friend & ally. Our anger is directed at Obama & his clique of left-wing Israel-bashers. When you get right down to it, Israel is more pro-American than the Obama administration.
Dear Mr. Lewis,
I’m afraid that your facts are off.
World War Two broke out on September 1st, 1939 and Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on May 10th, 1940, after Chamberlain’s government collapsed. He was chosen by the leadership of the Conservative Party, which had a majority in Parliament, and not by the voters, who didn’t go to the polls until June, 1945, when they booted out Churchill and his conservatives.
This otherwise excellent article is marred by some real historical howlers – WW2 broke out in 1939, not 1938; Churchill replaced Chamberlain the year AFTER war had broken out, i.e. in May 1940; Sarkozi is half-Hungarian, not half-Polish. If these are not corrected, European readers – who really DO need to heed the article’s main thrust! – will conlude that that the author doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
A couple more quick corrections:
The hijacked airliner at Entebbe belonged to Air France, not El Al. The passengers held hostage were Israeli. The flight originated in Tel Aviv and was hijacked after a stop in Athens, while en route to Paris.
Nicolas Sarkozy is one quarter Jewish (though that was enough for Hitler). His maternal grandfather was a Salonikan (Greek) Jew. On his father’s side the ancestry is Hungarian and not Polish.
The exodous from Egypt, assuming the Bible reflects an historic event, woukd have taken place midway through the second millenium BCE.
Well,for some unfathomable reason,Barokeydoke thinks it has fallen to him and him alone to do something heretofore unknown to American Presidents…to try and tell Jews in Israel that they can’t construct buildings in Jerusalem where they have been doing so for 3000 years…that presumption alone ought to demonstrate how unserious his foreign policy really is
Mr. Lewis, I had been hoping that Russia would sell arms to Israel. Sure hope you’re right about that being more than just a possibility.
Great article!
Go Bibi! Long live the Jews!
Great article would that the fold included those who elected Obama. It doesn’t. Obama will forever be the symbol of how stupid Americans can be just like baseball and apple pie tell all of her greatness and warmth.
The ground swell (described herein by Mr. Lewis) in America is coming from the conservative side of the fence; the same smart ones that sat out the election(s to “punish” the Republicans.
They punished them alright. So much so in fact that they looked down and realized that Barry and crew have almost severed their things and are going straight for their jugulars.
Comparing Barrack Obama to Benyamin Netanyahu?
Think wet mouse and a real man.
Bibi in under 30 seconds.
I liked your article and basically agree, but you have 2 inaccuracies. War did not start in 1938, but in 1939 (sept 1) and Churchill first came to power in may 1940 after the french – as usual – gave up.
GG
Nicholas Sarkozy has Hungarian, not Polish antecedents.
According to Wikipedia, he is the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa,a Hungarian aristocrat, and Andrée Jeanne “Dadu” Mallah, who is of French Catholic and Ottoman-Sephardic Jewish descent.
Nice article.
But Bibi will fall for the sucker punch. He is not a strong man – he is a bully who is a weak man. Having cheated nationalists in the Likud of power, he will now do all he can to bow to the setting sun on the Potomac, just as the high priests of the Temple bowed to the rising sun in the days before the destruction of the First Temple [see Ezekiel].
Watch….
Ye gods and little fishes! Where did you learn European history?
Chamberlain did not resign until May 1940, as the Germans invaded the low countries after months of the “Phony War” (Sitzkrieg in German). There was no election contested between Chamberlain and Churchill – they were both Tories. And, the (generally accepted) reason Chamberlain resigned was not a generalized preference for Churchill, but the fact that Attlee’s Labour Party would not join a national unity government with Chamberlain as prime minister. And, even so, it was Chamberlain who urged the King to send for Churchill, not Halifax, who had more support (and who would have been willing to entertain Nazi offers of an armistice).
A skinny Chicago thug would go down in the first round.
Bibi in round 1
This amateurish, incompetent boob has cemented the thought in the mind of our allies that the US may or may not be there for them – depending upon the uninformed and politically ignorant US electorate.
At the same time he had emboldened our enemies and set in motion the financial ruin of this nation.
The depth of my contempt for Obama, Pelosi, Reed and the entire Democrat party is beyond measure. I will, for the first time, be politically active in securing their defeat and I am not alone.
I this is stupid, and really off topic, but I just have to respond.
When I was a kid, I actually made up my own joke…
Q: What is the official martial art of Israel?
A: Jiu Jitsu
So, Mr. Lewis… are stealing my pun?
Beauxdog
From what I have read in the international press, couldn’t find much here–as usual, the pressure applied on Mr. Netanyahu was classic strong arming which they did so well with Louisiana, Nebraska and Menominee, MI. The difference is unlike a Nelson or a Stupak, Mr. Netanyahu has faced down the barrel with an enemy on his doorstep bent on destroying all that live. Our president wants them to move back to 1967 borders and hand back the high ground for fewer rocket launches and homicide bombers per month? Unilateral withdrawal will do nothing.
Sandbox politics aside. Almost everyone with half a brain knows there is absolutely “zero chance” of any peace between the palestinians and Israel. This has been true for the last thirty years and will probably be true for the next thirty. Even the common folks on each side will readily admit it. And as long as each side is entrenched in its beliefes within its own sandbox there shall be no hope, hence, no change. Anybody “dreaming” otherwise? I did’nt think so…
I’ll put my money on Bibi and Israel. All he has to do is make sure that Israel still exists in 3 years.
Excellent article. Bibi showed true professional class by not denouncing Obama’s apalling treatment of him. Obama is either too stupid to realize the error of his ways or he just doesn’t care.
Everything about Barry is small.
Spotted another inaccuracy. The airplane hijacked and held at Entebbe was Air France not El Al. The French pilot refused to abandon his passengers when the non-Jewish passengers were released but was forced by the hijackers to leave.
Heaven help us if Obama and his cheap Chicago friends start calling the shots in Israel, or anywhere else, for that matter. He has hurt his own country greatly and is so arrogant he seems to think he can rule the world! He doesn’t inspire respect in other countries and is too dense to see it. If we can only last 3 more years…..
“In fact, nobody is afraid of Barry except the people who rely on American resolve and strength”, and Plan “B” is being worked on.
Does anyone think it is coincidence when you have a British House of Commons committee warning not to read too much into the “Special Relationship” that Churchill described as existing between Great Britain and the United States? Or Hillary being put in her place regarding the meeting of Foreign Ministers about the Arctic?
No. Money talks, and when long term interest rates are higher than what they should be thanks to the United States, the Cliveden Set of the 21st century, to be more precise, they are getting a taste of what they dished out.
Lord Obama may have gotten a little puffed up by his historic “victory” (aka historic blunder). Bad timing for Bibi. One might have expected the Jews in his posse to warn him not to mess with Jerusalem. I learned a little from being married to a nice girl from the Catskills. Even far leftist Jews remember the Hebrew prayers and sayings that center on The City of David. There is a connection for many that transcends all the supposed crimes of the Israeli governments. Of course Muslims pretend it is the city of the “farthest mosque” from where Big Mo ascended to heaven. However, there was no mosque in Jerusalem when Mohammed descended to the Hell he so richly deserved. All those Hadassah ladies who voted for Obama are not likely to be amused. And Obama thought the Tea Party was a pain in the ass.
While I share the underlying sentiment of Mr. Lewis, I think you and many bloggers underestimate Mr. Obama and his coterie. You don’t rise to the presidency of 300 million people without a lot of guile and clever supporters. Netanyahu has the right heart, but I question whether he has the fortitude to stand firm against the President of the USA who has the final say on spare parts and munitions Israel needs. And a substantial segment of Israel still votes for the left. Even after Barak’s misjudgments in everything political, he still is defense minister and LIvni’s party still won the most votes despite having a prime minister who took money in a paper bag and a defense minister who didn’t know how to look through binoculars.
What’s amazing is Obama’s chutzpah- if Yiddish is appropriate- in deliberately picking this fight with Israel *over nothing.* The PA had never made an issue over construction in Sheikh Jarrah or North Jerusalem, which were historically Jewish before 1948 and which even old Yasser conceded will be on the Israeli side of the final border. No, like most bullies, Obama just needs an excuse, any excuse he can make up. He reminds me of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
Basic logic: if you want to make peace between parties, one of whom wants to make peace and the other has no interest in it- which one do you pressure?
How can you bet against the nation that used an explosive concealed in a cell phone to assassinate a muslim bomb maker?
I am reminded of how McNamara was also a Whiz Kid that knew everything and could lead the world through elitist education from the Ivy League Univ. His theory was, crunch the numbers and implement the answer. Never be distracted by the uneducated dirty public. Tell the lie often enough, and it will came true…
Let us examine how the policies of Vietnam, The Great Society to usher in the end of poverty. Only to come back in the last couple of years to say we knew different, but did it anyway. Whoops, me bad, sorry..!
It may be me, but this administration acts with the same arrogance with wanton disregard for history, or economics, or for that matter the Constitution. What do you call this? Is this Institutional elitist ignorance or a Coup data?
Netanyahu will win in the end simply because he is honest Commander/Leader, and has character. He is also steeped in reality not theory.
On November 5, 2008, Mr. Obama won 77% of the American Jewish vote, as measured by exit poll. I wonder how he would do now?
No contest! Barry has no balls at all!
Sysiphus said:
Why do Americans never get their facts right about WW11? War was declared on 3rd December 1939.
Get your own facts right, War was declared on September 3rd
Churchill took over from Neville Chamberlain in May 1940. NOT 1938.
Churchill was nominated First Lord of Admiralty (aka Minister of the Navy) at war declaration.
Churchill was not elected. He was not popular within his own party but no-one else was prepared to take on the job of Prime Minister after Chamberlain resigned.
Not exactly true. The decisive factor was that the Labour Party told the Conservatives, Churchill was the only conservative they trusted and would support (goal was to form a government of national unity). Kind of ironic considering how anti-Labour Churchil had ever been and how much the Labour had demonized Churchill since his anti-soviet policy first and the incidents at Tonipandy in the early 20s.
Bibi is a man among men. He has the admiration of honest men. I wish it were different for Barak but he has proven once too often that he is a one eyed jack and arrogant to boot. Alinski is his guide and they are a matched pair that will do nothing but hurt America and any and all friends. At the moment history is being written by the stenographer media, but after the flame out in ’12, the truth will then be written.
So there’s nothing new about resistance to thuggery in the history of Israel.
Resistance to thuggery is a good way to react to Barry (and Hillary) playing the pretend indignant “word game” to intimidate Israel.
Netanyahu is a hundred times the man Obama could ever be.
I am so much on the side of Israel in all of these recent exchanges and ashamed, yet again, of my country.
I was gratified, for what it’s worth, that last week some 327 members of Congress, from both parties, sent Barry a love note reminding him of the immutability of United States’ commitment to Israel.
After 20 years of sitting in Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr’s church, I suspect Barry supports some of the antisemitic qualities the good reverend espouses.
“James Lewis is a scientist”. I hope he checks his real work more carefully than his writing!
Lets have a flame-up.
1. For the U.S the war didn’t start till Pearl Harbour so we Brits shouldn’t expect them to know much about what happened before that.
2. Some think Churchill would have been a disaster if he was in charge before 1940 as his Norwegian excursions etc showed bad judgement.
3. Chamberlain didn’t surrender to Hitler, he knew Britain didn’t have the strength to defeat the German Army so he decided to abandon the Czechs. It’s not pretty but its what happened.It was very popular here and he was a hero for a while. We can all speculate as to what would have happened if he had not flown to Munich but the truth is we don’t know. The phoney war was useful time to rearm the nation and build defences.
4. I support Israel as a democracy and can’t help being impressed by their martial expertise and spirit. I don’t believe they are God’s chosen people however. Perhaps the success of the Jewish state has removed the underdog status that gained sympathy after the holocaust. That is a bitter irony. The price of success may be to be hated for it!
It really is a pity we can’t trade leaders. I would love to have Netanyahu as a president any day of the week. I would feel a lot safer if we did. But, on second thought, it would be mean of us to saddle the Israelis with Obama in a trade like that.
The problem is, once Iran gets nuclear weapons (and they will, trust me), what will Obama do? Probably nothing, and if that happens we’ll probably lose what little credibility we have left in this world as a superpower. France may have an aircraft carrier in the Gulf every now and then, but the Iranians know they’d never actually use it. The Iranians used to fear our carrier battle groups, but not anymore. They just don’t think we have the stomach for attacking them, especially since we’re still involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nope, we missed our chance to stop the Iranian nuclear program when we refused to assist the demonstrators in Tehran last year. That was our last best chance in overthrowing their government. Now Obama, because of his gutlessness, will have to live with the results of that decision, which will be a nuclear-armed Iran. Sleep well tonight, Mr. President.
tiens, j’suis moderated
when I was telling that no need to correct the author, some did it before me !
so, that means that scientists have not “la science infuse” !
and I would still bring a bemol to the assertation: Sarkozy ain’t the most Palestinians worshipper in EU
It is sad that Americans have more faith in a Prime Minister of another country and in the President of the United States.
But I guess this is what things have come to.
“Putin just put down a hellish Islamofascist rebellion in Chechnya with naked force. He doesn’t want another Islamist regime with nukes within missile range of Russia.”
I can’t tell. Is he blocking all efforts at stopping them in order to force Israel’s hand?
If Bibi would run for President of the United States, I will surely vote for him. All Bibi has to do is become a naturalized American citizen. He need not be born in U.S. soil.
It doesn’t matter what any President of the US thinks concerning Israel as not even a President of the great USofA can overthrow God. God has plans for Israel that no one can thwart and Israel wins! Those who try to “humiliate” His plans are playing a very dangerous game and can look to receive some humiliation of like kind in return. The fact that the majority of Americans support Israel is what is keeping us viable as a nation. At some point that support will end(it is written)and we will be dependent, just like everyone else, on some superficial but strong world government. Israel never will be. People can scorn the Word of God all they want but even the most simple can see the handwriting on the wall if they really wanted to.
Another correction:
“The Romans were brutal conquerors, after all, and Jesus was a rebel against Imperial Rome and its local puppets.”
Jesus was not a rebel against Imperial Rome and its local puppets. He did not come as a political leader – he came to save souls. Period. If He had been a rebel, he would have flouted the laws of the land. If He had been a rebel, he would have stirred up hostilities against Rome and the Jewish aristocracy. He did none of those things. He preached forgiveness and salvation. That was His purpose. He came as a savior.
A more interesting point is who would win a Petraeus vs. Bibi cagematch. If the good general becomes really pissed, where do you republicans stand? With Israel or the US armed forces?
Oh, and: “Still, the Germans cannot afford to be perceived as falling back to National Socialism. The French are led by Nicolas Sarkozy, who is half-Jewish and Polish to boot — not a formula for an appeaser.”
Lol, do you have any grasp of European politics at all? Both France and Germany have strongly condemned the illegal building in Jerusalem, as well as the illegal building in the west bank.
The problem with abandoning the Czechs is that they had a very capable armed forces, and defensible terrain along the Western Carpathians. I’ve read some of Hitler’s papers during the war, and it was by no means a foregone conclusion. Hitler needed Munich, because after Munich, he had the Sudentenland, backed by the powers that the Czechs could not afford to lose as allies. Then once they occupied the fortresses in the Sudentenland, it made it much easier for the Wehrmacht to defeat the Czechs.
Hitler’s observations after Munich were an enlightenment, he remarked at how the fortifications were far stronger than he anticipated and the armouries much better equipped.
Hitler was a master of deception and duplicity, and the game did not finally end until Poland, and even then he was allied with the Russians. So many missed opportunities. If the British had backed the paper they had signed with the Eastern European countries, war could have been averted. Chamberlain had precisely the opposite effect. He emboldened Hitler and made him believe that his dreams were in fact possible. Appeasement did not delay war.
Sarkozy: father Hungarian not Polish:
Sarkozy is a Frenchman of mixed national and ethnic ancestry. He is the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál; some sources spell it Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ernő; Hungarian pronunciation (help·info) [nɒɟ͡ʝboːt͡ʃɒi ʃaːrkøzi paːl])[6] a Hungarian aristocrat,[7] and Andrée Jeanne “Dadu” Mallah (b. Paris, 12 October 1925), who is of French Catholic and Ottoman-Sephardic Jewish descent.[8] They were married at Saint-François-de-Sales, Paris XVII, on 8 February 1950 and divorced in 1959.[9]
Churchill was made First Lord of the Admiralty on September 3,1939,two days after the Germans invaded Poland.Throughout 1938,Churchill warned the British public and the world about the dangers of appeasement,but he was nt in the Government until the above date.
sean, I take your point but when you say appeasement didnt delay the war but I would say it did delay the war for Britain and that was the objective.
Both France and Germany have strongly condemned the illegal building in Jerusalem…
By whose standards, “illegal” ?
My own understanding (from several sources, including comments by Charles Krauthammer) is that building in East Jerusalem has not been a particular issue or particular sticking point in Palestinian-Israeli dealings/negotiations, until Barack Obama (inartfully or intentionally) made it one.
Great article — and a really good pep talk.
At these grim times, it’s good to hear a voice even a little on the positive side.
Your comparison of Bibi to Obama was a lark — couldn’t be more true — but then, Obama would look foolish in comparison to my 9 year old nephew who knows better than to engage in — whining, lying, cheating, blaming and stamping his feet.
Unfortunately, this 8 year old mentality has his fingers on the buttons of our — and the world’s power.
I truly hate to take exception to your calming opinions.
You may have something there in that Obama might not, after all, withhold selling arms to Israel because of the backlash he’d get, but it’s just a little “something.” Something to keep as a last hope. We can’t count on it, though.
He certainly wants to weaken and disempower (or worse) Israel — his — if you can call it a heart — is invested in that.
He didn’t heed the overwhelming majority opposed to his Unhealth Plan — didn’t allow public disgust with his “means” to get it done — to stop him. Nor does he show a care that his own “incitement” has caused the beginnings of a new Intifada and the needless deaths it will cause.
As for Europe and Russia … I can’t see what Russia, from their repugnant and odious point of view, would have to gain by getting Israel to go over to their “side” by selling them arms. They’re the one’s building the Iranian nuke facilities — they’ve already chosen their “side.”
And Europeans — well, without going too far into it — Europeans never learn anything. Never have. Never will.
They deceive themselves, flatter themselves, and rationalize that their “submission” to Islamists is proof that they’ve overcome their “racism,” while they have revived and are extremely permissive (meaning, they encourage and often join in) regarding Islamic anti-semitism right in their own countries. Their memories of their hateful murder of their innocent civilian Jewish neighbors may give them a moment’s pause now and then. They will go wherever the mindless media and mob go.
There was news this morning of a 4-month “moratorium” on building in Jerusalem. Whatever is reported, it’s hard to know who initiated the proposal — Obama or Bibi. Surely, it is designed to save Obama’s face for the foolish, foolish road he’s taken, and may help to secure a promise of arms. No answer yet.
Alas and woe — I don’t know what’s going to save Israel — they can only count on themselves, their fortitude and strength — the hope that the “haters” will foil themselves as they’ve done so often before — and the support of the many, many Americans who believe in them.
We’ve seen Israeli miracles save them before — their very existence is a miracle — so we have that reason to keep holding on to hope.
“sean, I take your point but when you say appeasement didnt delay the war but I would say it did delay the war for Britain and that was the objective.”
I’d surmise that war for Britain. could have been averted entirely if Hitler had to DOW the Czechs. He would finally have been exposed for all to see. If the Czechs defeated him then the whole house of cards collapses.
Churchill was made First Lord of the Admiralty on September 3,1939
Dammit.
Cage match? I’d put large money on Bibi. Obama’s a twit.
Aqua con Gaz ?
j’suis vraiment a paria for this monsieur, Merdum !
Right On!
That is one heck of a dose of the truth.
Bravo Bravo!!
Fnord writes, “Both France and Germany have strongly condemned the illegal building in Jerusalem, as well as the illegal building in the west bank.” To be more precise, it’s only what *they* for political reasons deem to be illegal.
As a number of international jurists have written since 1967, Israel has *more* legal claim to the territory west of the Jordan than any other party. The League of Nations Mandate of 1922 makes clear the entire territory was intended for a Jewish homeland. No state has a competitive claim, and Egypt and Jordan, which had illegally occupied the territory, can’t transfer non-existent claims to the Palestinians.) Moreover, it’s an established principle of warfare that territory captured in a defensive war can be claimed by the defending party.
And when Lewis writes, “Would you bet on a Chicago pol against an Israeli special ops guy?”, the presumption is that it would be a fair fight. But count on Obama to bring his enforcers along – the UN, the EU and Russia, not to mention the full weight of his office. Mano a mano, Obama would lose. Just compare their bios.
“Bring it on” Barry is nothing but a punk, full of himself, arrogant,and punitive.
I’ll bet on Bibi. Vast experience, self-controlled, and smart.
Yep, the special ops guy wins this one.
bo isn’t arrogant. he is an empty mendacious punk with temper tantrums. he is actually sickening. israelis know with whom they are dealing. netanyahu knows even better.
1. Bibi wins in Round 1/2
2. with the various comments about France – could not resists posting this classic joke:
During one of the many wars that the French and the British fought and the French usually lost, the French just happened to capture a British Major. An officer brought the Major to the French general for interrogation. The French general began ridiculing the Major for wearing “that stupid red tunic.” The French general said, “Why to you wear that red uniform, it makes it easy for us to shoot you.” The British major replied, “If I do get wounded, the blood will not show, and my soldiers will not get scared.” The French general said, “That is a very good idea,” The Frenchy turned to his orderly and said, “From now on all French officers will wear brown pants.”
Wish I could agree with this silver lining theory, and I do hope it allows some readers to sleep soundly at night. It reminds me of the optimist that fell off the roof of a skyscraper and took comfort in the fact that he would soon stop falling.
Otoh, I am surprised that a full 9% of Israelis are of the opinion that the Anointed One is pro-Israel, but I guess every society needs a few fools to make the rest of us look good.
“The trick with Barry is to let him be himself.”
Maybe.
But the certainty is to mock him and to ridicule him.
Buraq is a classical clinical Narcissist and I’ll bet New York City to a single brick will not last out even one term as pretender. After his fellow totalitarians lose both the reps and the senate come November and his disbarred-for-cause spouse’s already palpable contempt for him begins to match America’s — and the world’s — I reckon he’ll resign effective around September 2011 and that “president” Plugs will not then win the dhimmicraps’ primary.
Steve, you claim that people underestimate obama, whilst that may be true it did not take long for his treachery to be revealed to the american people hence the total disdain for his policies and recognition of his rank stupidity.
He reminds me of the wimp who was browbeaten by his baby sister and has seared into his mind the need to get even. He is as anti american, is a disgace to presidential decorum, lacks grace and the air of authority. He is simply the immature moron who throws his toys out of the playpen when he does not get his own way. This emperor is shown to be very naked indeed.
The idiot is less presidential that I am when on the throne in my bathroom. His ascendency to the presidency was not due to his smarts but rather the stupidity of the american people who listened to the cheap, shallow rhetoric of a snake oil salesman. Fortunately they have recognized that they were duped. There is no trust in the man outside of the progressives who certainly have never understood nor supported that liberty for which so high a price was paid in the battle of independence, especially Valley Forge, the first great war and the second world war.
The reason Netanyahu will kick obama’s butt is simply because he is a man of character and real stregnth. He has dealt with men far smarter and more evil than the imbecile from Chicago. The Israeli people have dealt with greater threats and have the support of the most powerful being of all…God. As far as your comment on fortitude goes I can tell you have never been to Israel, have you? There is no nation on earth, no people on earth with the fortitude of the Israeli people. The Jewish left from the north east are not the orthodox Israeli, they know nothing of the true Israel and are enemies of the state of Israel.
Canuck, that’s why Cambrone told the British “merde”, and that also why, we as the whole, will carry on the tradition to besh*t you
By any hazard, is Canuk not escaped from the subtile reserve which has the intelligent design for twisting any french history or actuality facts,
“no passaran” ?
It was painful reading all the praise you heap on a bully who cheats in the party primaries his party. I remember similar praise heaped on Sharon in 2001 – and he betrayed us.
Netanyahu looks good to you – but to us in Israel, who have seen him up close, he does not look strong at all. He allows Barak to kick Jews out at will in Judea and Samaria, and to flout the limits of the racist “freeze” he illegally imposed.
You will see that this man is not what you think he is. The mere fact that he looks better than Obama to you does not make him strong – or righteous.
Quite a bit of history in these comments which is good. Perhaps both Bibi and Barak are put in the balance scale, one in one pan and the other in the opposite pan. How will they weigh out in God’s scale? Will Barak turn out to be the light weight?
Pr 16:7 ¶ When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
There is ample evidence that Israel is not the enemy of the Palestinians. It is the Palestinians who do not seek peace or put their energies to making a living rather than war.
The Bible does not teach that we must not judge for righteous judgment is necessary to justice. But when we begin to judge we will be judged in that same spirit. If the judgment is righteous it will stand and if no it will return on our own heads. As we judge Israel so our own judgment is likely to fall. To what extent we back Obama in his judgment we will likely reap the consequences.
Pr 11:21 ¶ Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
We see this taking place in this, our day, but it will not stand against the righteous. We have a righteous God as our defense.
Pr 29:2 ¶ When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Why is this true? What and where is the difference?
this is the big question before us and we should choose wisely and carefully.
OIbama has a defacto arms embargo on Israel. He has not concluded a deal for the F-35 fighter plane. He withheld a shipment of bunker buster bombs to try and prevent Israel from attacking his favored nation Iran. (He has had some supposedly secret negotiations with Iran’s Revolutionary gurads.)
Mr. Lewis,
CORRECTIONS:
1) England was already at war several months before Chamberlain was replaced by Churchill. It was Chamberlain who declared war along with France after Germany invaded Poland.
2) Sarkozy is 1/4 Jewish, not half. Also, his non-French decent is Hungarian, not Polish.
You need to fact check.
Okay, where are you reading this? We made those corrections on March 31st.