FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
I was certain that I had blogged the last about Obama's and Sarkozy's anti-Bibi loose lips, the open mic scandal here and here. But this morning I saw what Caroline Glick wrote, which of course brings up additional and crucial points.
Location and timing really are everything. It's not like United States President Obama and French President Sarkozy had met at a clothing store, restaurant or the opera. This wasn't a cultural or occasion or a celebration in honor of the birth of Sarkozy's new baby daughter.
The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last week's G20 summit were revealing as well as repugnant. (emphasis mine)Of all the international leaders, our Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been the strongest and most consistent pushing and prodding and begging and warning the free world about the dangers of the Iranian nuclear weapons program. None of the big shot G20 leaders take it seriously, and that includes Obama and Sarkozy. Obama and Sarkozy haven't a clue.
To understand why this is the case it is necessary to first ask, when has Netanyahu ever lied to Sarkozy and Obama? This week the UN International Atomic Energy Agency's report about Iran's nuclear weapons program made clear that Israel - Netanyahu included - has been telling the truth about Iran and its nuclear ambitions all along. In contrast, world leaders have been lying and burying their heads in the sand.
What other topic could they have had been referring to? Could it have been the faux peace process?
Since Iran's nuclear weapons program was first revealed to the public in 2004, Israel has provided in-depth intelligence information proving Iran's malign intentions to the likes of Sarkozy, Obama and the UN. And for seven years, the US government - Obama included - has claimed that it lacked definitive proof of Iran's intentions.
Obama wasted the first two years of his administration attempting to charm the Iranians out of their nuclear weapons program. He stubbornly ignored the piles of evidence presented to him by Israel that Iran was not interested in cutting a deal.
Because the truth is that Israel never had a chance of achieving peace with the Palestinians.The PA depicts a world without Israel. They're neither shy nor discreet about saying so.
And the reason this has always been the case has nothing to do with Netanyahu or Israel.
THERE WAS never any chance for peace because the Palestinians have no interest in making peace with Israel. As the West's favorite Palestinian "moderate," Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with Egypt's Dream TV on October 23, "I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will never recognize the 'Jewishness' of the State [of Israel] or a 'Jewish state.'" That is, Abbas will never make peace with Israel.
I thank Caroline Glick for putting it all in context. I recommend reading her entire article.