Israeli President Shimon Peres gave the benefit of the doubt on Iran to the Obama administration in his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference today while focusing much of his speech on pressing for a two-state solution in the Mideast.
Peres, speaking before President Obama, opened his speech with a nod to the commander in chief: “Thank you, President Obama, for being such a good friend.”
Later in his address, Peres seemed to be trying to smooth the path for Obama with a skeptical crowd. He said that when he first met Obama, a senator from Illinois at the time, “I saw before me a born leader.”
“Mr. President, I know your commitment to Israel is deep and profound,” the Israeli president said, thanking Obama and Congress for “unwavering support.”
“We have a friend in the White House,” Peres said.
Peres dedicated part of the middle of his speech to Iran, but the address did not focus on the pressing threat facing his country.
“Iran is an evil cruel morally corrupt regime,” he said sharply. “Iran is a danger to the entire world. It threatens Berlin as well as Madrid, Dublin as well as Bangkok.
“It must be stopped and it will be stopped,” he added. “Peace is always our first option, but if we are forced to fight trust me we will prevail.”
Peres called Obama’s policy for confronting Iran “complex and decisive.”
“President Obama made it clear that the use will never permit Iran to become nuclear,” Peres said. “He made it clear that containment is not a viable policy and, as the president stated, all options are on the table.”
He said the U.S. and Israel “share the same goal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.”
“There is no space between us,” Peres said. “Our message is clear.”
He dedicated much of his address to the Mideast peace process, saying he believes Palestinian leaders “need and they want peace; I believe that peace with them is possible.”
“The Palestinians are our neighbors for life,” Peres said. “Peace can and must be achieved with them.”
The Israeli president spoke after a long video tribute detailing the 88-year-old’s 65 years of political service, capped off by a children’s choir.
“The restoration of a Jewish state after 2,000 years in exile is a historic miracle,” Peres said. “We had to fight six wars in six decades. We did not lose one. We never will. We cannot afford it. We had to defend ourselves. Self-defense is our right and obligation.”
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Mr. Peres, you have just brought Israel closer to destruction by appeasing Obama and his lies about his support for Israel. You know full well the Obama is no friend of Israel and will never defend her against Iran or any enemy. Obama’s support clearly tilts towards the Muslim world. Wake up, before it’s too late.
Likud is just an extension of the GOP. Their policy positions and actions make Israel less safe. Bibi may think he’s doing the right thing but he is misguided.
The Likud has nothing whatsoever to do with the GOP or any other non-Israeli political party.
I would like to retort also that Peres is the misguided one, but I fear that the real explanation for his behavior since 1992 is far less innocent than that. Peres cares about one thing only: the glory of Peres.
Wake up fool! Obama prefers Iran over Israel.
Perez was always fond of shaking Yasser Arafat’s hand too for public affection. Why should I be surprised that a useful idiot with that level of poor judgment wouldn’t pucker up for Obama’s backside?
Two peas in a pod Arafat and Obama, with Perez stroking them both. With leaders like Perez, who needs enemies?
Shirley you jest, Shimon..
Bridget, Zionists in Israel are used to our addled President spewing nonsense. In fact, he makes Biden look decidedly Presidential.
Be that as it may, Peres has his nose so far up Obama’s backside that one can be forgiven from wondering, where does one start and the other end.
Many in Israel-at least Zionists-are cringing from his butt kissing performance. Alas, we all have to suffer our resident fools, many of them AND knaves too!
Exactly right.
100% correct.
If Obama is a born leader, it is because after a certain point he got treated as if he was to the manor born.
Time to let the Jews go. It appears that “Never Again” means nothing.
“Later in his address, Peres seemed to be trying to smooth the path for Obama with a skeptical crowd. He said that when he first met Obama, a senator from Illinois at the time, “I saw before me a born leader.””
Skeptical crowd???? Obama, himself a Nobel Peace Prize winner and stone cold drone killer, seems to have bought Peres off with an America Freedom medal. The crowd at AIPAC is wildly cheering for Obama at this very moment, as Obama is giving Jews the old vote for me speech. Obama said some want to make support for Israel less than a bi-partisan topic. Can you imagine? At the same time he says that he is a tough guy when it comes to Iran (Syria, not so much). The cheers continue as he elaborates his presidency’s “unprecedented” support for Israel. The cheers continue. Aren’t Jews supposed to be smart?
Both sides of Congress seem to be on the right track on both Syria and Iran but I still distrust Obama and think the Israelis would be well advised to be wary of him as well.
Yeah, you have a friend in the White House, that’s why the iranian centrifuges now can be counted by the many many thousands.
Keep your faith, when they nuke you and us, you can always apologize.
Any Jew who votes for Obama is no better than a Kapo…
I totally agree with you. It is shocking how ignorant my fellow Jews are about who is on their side of the issues pertaining to them. Sadly most Jews have never been to Israel and don’t care…until they are marched to the gas chambers again. Some people never learn. When times are good they can’t believe they will ever be otherwise.
So anyone who doesnt agree with you is a nazi who wants to exterminate the jews? Im tempted to go into rudeness, but I will restrain myself to just a sarcastic sneer.
Comparisons to “Kapos” don’t help, and they miss the point. Most liberal Jews are simply ethnic Jews of the Liberal-Left religion, whether they recognize it or not, and this strips them of the ability to confront uncomfortable shifts in the American Left’s approach to Israel.
The Israeli Left is a different kind of delusion, although it does share some common traits (such as the crocodile-will-eat-me-last approach to politics). Like leftists elsewhere in the West, they do not let reality get in the way of their perception of the world; this simply takes a smidge more self-delusion in Israel, where the reality of Islamic terrorism is right in your face.
Finally, Israeli politicians such as Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres are in a separate category entirely. I don’t know what they actually believe, but they have proven many times willing to act knowingly against the interests of Israel, while deliberately deceiving the Israeli public about it, and all the while getting paid by foreign governments or entities for doing it. Getting bought out with a fancy presidential medal is par for the course for Peres.
Having said all that – the truth is that Peres couldn’t really have done anything else under the current circumstances, except perhaps grovel a bit less enthusiastically. Remember that the Obama Administration has its jackboot on Israel’s neck.
Peres passed his expiration date about ten years ago.
Even a sixty year old Peres would be appalled at the 80+ year old Peres.
More like 20 years ago. In the 1980s, working with others, he helped stabilize Israel’s then fragile economy, including its runaway inflation. Then came his unauthorized negotiations with Israel’s enemies that wrought the Oslo Accords – perhaps the worst strategic blunder in the last 50 years. Peres still doesn’t recognize it as a blunder. He’s still a true believer in that New Middle East.
Obama’s “friendship” with Israel will expire after he is safely reelected.
He has their back until election day.
How foolish to trust Obama’s word.
Stunningly idiotic.
Peres is playing the ” Mr Nice guy ” today , and Netanyahu will play tomorrow ” Now it’s action time ” and he will adress an ultimatum to Obama: Either you act now or in no long time we shall do our duty to neutralize Iran.
So the real lies detector test of BHO is with Netanyahu. But Peres hinted already that Obama is just acting as a fool , when he qualified Obama’s policy as ” complex and decisive ” : this is an understatment for ” stupid and uneffective “.
Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel
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Peres is Labor. Labor is pure socialism. Of course he would declare Obambi a born leader. And Rev. Wright is a friend to Israel. As is Code Pink and the rest of the American Left. Oh yes! Israel can put its full faith in these good friends.
This is, of course, the correct answer. Small-c communists support other small-c communists. One great big, chummy club.
I believe the phrase you are looking for is Fellow Traveler.
Netanyahu is Likud. Likud is pure fascism. Of course Peres would declare President Obama a born leader. Look what he is being compared to.
You apparently lack any understanding or knowledge either of the nature of fascism, or of the Likud party. Of course, a troll wouldn’t.
If Peres = Labor = Socialism, then I am the queen of England ! Labour party is rich brat association which has lost any real conection with the workers in Israel sonce at least 30 years. labour party in Israel is a liberal- well heeled bourgeois who still try to keep a voice in the debate because once , between 1900 and 1950 , the labourites were the driving force in the zionist movement. Labour is definitely a relic of the past and the more so since Perese+Rabin commited the huge strategic blunder of the Oslo accords.The fact that Peres still plays a symbolic role as President is largely ceremonial and useful only to present someone who did tried – without success- to make peace come true, but with the wrong partner Arafat.
Very true about not being a socialist party at all. More like crony capitalist – remind you of a certain Administration in Washington?
Israeli leaders need to get out their message without confronting O. The more they can get him to say he is with them, the more he cannot ignore the Congress and do otherwise. Hopefully, Israel will attack before it’s too late, with or without O’s blessing. There is no chance a nuclear plant underground is for peaceful means, and there is no chance that the mad mullahs have any other intention than hitting Israel and next, American interests. Delaying a strike (appeasing), just allows more time for weaponization to be accomplished and for the consequences to be more dire.
jews are long time leftists and utopians.. they absolutely refuse to hear the truth.. the halocaust is just one case in point where most just didn’t believe that hitler would do what he did even when faced with the facts over and over again. they want fairy tales.. they can’t face or take the hard reality of reality.. soooooo unfortunately they will sit back again and wait for someone to save them.. this president is not going to save them.. he’ll help push them over the cliff as he’s been doing for more than 3 years…too bad they can’t take responsibility for themselves.. poor little israeli children… they’re going to be allowed to fry by the decisions their ignorant and lazy minded leaders make.. i’ve lost hope for the jews..
I am a citizen of the world who is, probably like you, anxious in regards to what would happen if/when Iran does get the bomb. I read and reread the IAEA reports over and over again and I have to say that I am quite convinced that Iran is forging the way to build a bomb.Time will tell if the IAEA and I are right…I certainly hope not. In the meantime, Iran keeps on claiming that nuclear weapons are a sin, that they will never develop nuclear weapons etc…On the other hand, they keep on threatening that they will take their program underground and that repercussions will be horrendous.(I found this site that has quite a few quotes: http://iranuclear.wordpress.com/). I put together this infographic of all the violations by Iran according to the IAEA with links to the respective paragraphs in the IAEA reports at my blog – IRANandIAEA.wordpress.com. I do hope that I did not miss out on anything – if I did , please be kind enough to correct me and I can change the infographic. I also tried my hand at creating a small movie of the infographic – link. Would love your feedback and, if you do decide to publish this infographic, please be kind enough to inform me about it Hope this can be of help.
http://iranandiaea.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/iran-and-iaea.pdf
Correction: American, non-affiliated or Reform Jews are leftists and utopians.
If you look at the Orthodox Jews, the Russian Jewish immigrants in America, or Israelis, you find a very different outlook.
If the President of Israel supports Obama, why bother contemplating this issue?
Israel, President Obama and the vast majority of Jewish voters in the US all agree. So why all this speculation? Why trying to fight a cause for people that obviously don’t want your help?
I, too, would like to know the answers to these questions. I have given to Israel and, up to this point, have been eager to fight at her side. But I’ve had enough of the prevarications from American politicians, those American Jews who support the Democratic appeasers, and, now, the Israeli leadership. If Obama is a friend to Israel, the bar has been set very low.
Peres has just undermined all of us who have been devoted to the security and prosperity of Israel.
Which Israel is Peres talking about?
Oh, the election, the election. Once O’s in, with no re-election to worry about (or even in his lame-duck session) – he going to stick his thumb in everyone’s eye. Especially Israel.
The Iranians know this. They’re waiting. Weighing the chances of doing anything overly aggressive before the election — knowing full well he will do nothing to stop them once he’s in office again.
Then again, they might move just before elections — to have O’s non-reaction, before a Republican is in charge — who would retaliate.
If you really add up all his actions (and assume he’s not a total dummy) — it adds up to O’s actually wanting Iran to get their own Nukes. It fits so well with his Post-American Century dream.
Mr. Peres and most Israeli politicians are in difficult position, they have to stay above the fray and avoid being used as a football for US politics. Of course, he has to say positive about Obama as they have to deal with him while he’s still in office. What a diplomat and politician say in front of the public is not necessarily a true representation of what they really feel.
Hmmm..
Jews deserve eradication.. if this is how easy it is to convince them to support their own final destruction, once again.. but this time it’s forever..
That’s the whole point of spreading muslims around the world into every nook and cranny of the globe..
Screw em.. so blinded by shekels and platitudes, they are worshipers of Baal..
The Spanish Inquisition happened for a reason.. that reason is still relevant
today.. a majority of Jews are selfish educated idiots that facilitate evil.
What? you don’t like that? well too effing bad..
I’m not going to be the one to defend Jews JUST BECAUSE they are Jewish.. their actions condemnable and worthy of traitor status..
It’s happened before.. it’s happening now.. Stupid stupid stupid jews..
I am disgusted by your comment, and you should be ashamed. I am also at a loss as to why this comment has not been removed by PJM.
Do you also believe blacks should be “eradicated” because they vote for Obama by an even larger margin? Obama is bad for all of America, not just for Jews or for Israel.
However frustrated I may be with the political leanings of the majority of American Jews, it does not change what is right and what is wrong. There is a shift beginning, but it will take time.
“I am disgusted by your comment, and you should be ashamed.”
I agree, Michael. If one wants more examples of anti-Israel and Anti-Jew rhetoric, one can go to the Kos and Huffinton blogs and read the comments there. I’m sure van the troll spends a lot of time among his colleagues collecting more hate to fuel his activities.
BYW, I suggest the word provocateur might be used as a synonym for troll.
Peres was troweling the shit on pretty thick. Why the ass-kissing session Mr. Peres?
Perez is not playing with a full deck of cards.
i once thought jews were a smart people, in general. no more. with all the experts they have in fraud, and the experience with fake documents, one would think mr. transparency would be something they could relate to on a personal level. maybe oenema gave them some more of our borrowed money. this type stuff defies explanation.
‘Smart’ is trumped by ideology every time.
My grandmother used to tell me about going to college in New York in the late 30s, and how fashionable it used to be back then to be a communist. When I asked her if she used to believe in that as well, she said, “Oh no, I wasn’t smart enough for that nonsense. Only the really smart kids were communists.”
So much for ‘smart’.
The people of AIPAC know what Peres must say. They know they must appear respectful. That does not mean they don’t understand. Support for Obama has fallen off among this Jewish voters by approximately 50%. An even more striking evaporation of support might have been expected but this change is amazing given the propensity for Democrat politicians among this group.
Obama knows what he must say and Perez knows what he must say. Voters go into the voting booth,alone,with their own common sense.
Many Jews are no longer fooled by Obama, but I would agree it’s still way too many, and I do think they are kapos (my dad was a survivor of the Camps, my grandparents murdered in Auschwitz, and yes, any Jew who can vote for Obama and did in 2008 is much worse than stupid–suicidally repugnant) Peres is simply an idiot, playing games for status and free dinners. The man has some of the same stupidity as Jimmy Carter, but there was a time when he was a decent leader, and then went off the cliff as noted above, with Oslo. Thinks he can fix the unfixable. Thinks he is still important when he is a symbol of…what, we’re not sure. He has no real following and no one really gives a damn what he says. The power is with Bibi.
I guess leftist Jews are leftists first, just like every other kind of leftist. Of all the nutty religions on earth, leftism is the nuttiest.
Peres thought that Yasser Arafat would be a trustworthy peace partner
enuf with the Jew hating already. These supporters of Obama are not Jews by faith, although they will hide behind it, much like Obama claims to be a Christian and many Christian leaders “take him at his word”. These are JINO’s. Unfortunately, Jews who are on the right are being crushed by them. I was sickened by the cheering for Obama by the sychophants and phoneys in the audience. Those of you who post and lump all Jews together are showing you cannot be trusted either, thus putting yourselves in the same category with Obama and the lefty JINO’s. Good luck with the judgment seat on that one.
I luv u magic abortion negro Hussein Obama
So many unkind remarks about Peres who suffers from Dementia. He may have been born with a touch of it. Israel is a small country and has limited facilites. Surely, an appropriate nursing home could be found for Peres in America where he could enjoy life and his delusions.
You cannot expect anything else from Peres. Peres broke Israeli law when he met with, and negotiated with terrorists. Peres brought the EVIL Oslo Covenant with Death – the Oslo Accords to Israel. The Oslo WAR that brought suffering and death to Israel. Thousands of Israeli Jews maimed and murdered by the Muslims. Peres will have to answer to God for what he has done.
“We have a friend in the White House,” Peres said.
He must have meant when Netanyahu was there.
The Psychology of Populations under Chronic Siege, by Kenneth Levin
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-046-levin.htm
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