PolitacynicNH
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I grew up between end of Vietnam and the Marine Barracks attack. I watched the failed hostage rescue as a teen on Nightline. Just a simple guy from NH. There are three things I have come to know about USA- our foreign policy has been dictated by oil, communism and Middle East since the 40's. No I didn't forget W.O.T. for the last 10 years... It doesn't need explaination- for the most part...
We solved Communism thanks to Ronnie and George Bush Sr. With a small part to Carter's plan that draw USSR into Afghanistan. But the latter part of 20th century has been about Oil and our quest to keep control of the oil supply. Our Middle East policy has been Israel at all cost. I love Israel for the record. We should help defend them. But if we want peace in the Middle East we need recognize Palestine! They were close too... Until this guy gummed up the process...
Obama has it right to call out Bebe!
If a simple salesman from NH can get it- I think anyone can.
We solved Communism thanks to Ronnie and George Bush Sr. With a small part to Carter's plan that draw USSR into Afghanistan. But the latter part of 20th century has been about Oil and our quest to keep control of the oil supply. Our Middle East policy has been Israel at all cost. I love Israel for the record. We should help defend them. But if we want peace in the Middle East we need recognize Palestine! They were close too... Until this guy gummed up the process...
Obama has it right to call out Bebe!
If a simple salesman from NH can get it- I think anyone can.
Israel's Netanyahu has his defenders, detractors
“I don’t believe a word he says,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly said recently, in a private conversation, according to Haaretz.
Netanyahu’s truthfulness has been at issue on several occasions since he became a public figure, and the Israeli prime minister even has been caught on tape admitting his own duplicity.
For example, in a video taped in 2001, and released in July 2010, Netanyahu admits that he deceived President Bill Clinton into believing he was helping implement the Oslo peace process, according to the Washington Post.
Speaking to a group of West Bank settlers, Netanyahu, who did not hold public office at the time, said:
“They [Americans] asked me before the election if I’d honor [the Oslo accords]. I said I would, but ... I’m going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the ’67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I’m concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue.”
“I know what America is,” Netanyahu said in Hebrew, apparently not knowing his words were being recorded. “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.”
Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the video was “pathetic and outrageous.”
“The man in the video betrays himself in his own words as a con artist, and now he is again prime minister of Israel,” Levy wrote. “Don’t try to claim that he has changed since then. Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
Netanyahu also has seen his share of scandals over the years. In 1998, he faced allegations that he was complicit to an assassination attempt on the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin in Jordan, although he was later cleared of those charges by an official enquiry.
In 1999, Netanyahu faced another scandal as he was questioned by the police in connection with a probe into corruption related to gifts from a government contractor during his first tenure as prime minister.
And this past April, the Israel State Comptroller, Micha Lindenstrauss, announced an investigation into Netanyahu’s travel at the expense of private businessmen, and allegations that Netanyahu illegally obtained campaign donations.
But Netanyahu has his defenders as well.
Read more: The Jewish Chronicle - Israel s Netanyahu has his defenders detractors
“I don’t believe a word he says,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly said recently, in a private conversation, according to Haaretz.
Netanyahu’s truthfulness has been at issue on several occasions since he became a public figure, and the Israeli prime minister even has been caught on tape admitting his own duplicity.
For example, in a video taped in 2001, and released in July 2010, Netanyahu admits that he deceived President Bill Clinton into believing he was helping implement the Oslo peace process, according to the Washington Post.
Speaking to a group of West Bank settlers, Netanyahu, who did not hold public office at the time, said:
“They [Americans] asked me before the election if I’d honor [the Oslo accords]. I said I would, but ... I’m going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the ’67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I’m concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue.”
“I know what America is,” Netanyahu said in Hebrew, apparently not knowing his words were being recorded. “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.”
Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the video was “pathetic and outrageous.”
“The man in the video betrays himself in his own words as a con artist, and now he is again prime minister of Israel,” Levy wrote. “Don’t try to claim that he has changed since then. Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
Netanyahu also has seen his share of scandals over the years. In 1998, he faced allegations that he was complicit to an assassination attempt on the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin in Jordan, although he was later cleared of those charges by an official enquiry.
In 1999, Netanyahu faced another scandal as he was questioned by the police in connection with a probe into corruption related to gifts from a government contractor during his first tenure as prime minister.
And this past April, the Israel State Comptroller, Micha Lindenstrauss, announced an investigation into Netanyahu’s travel at the expense of private businessmen, and allegations that Netanyahu illegally obtained campaign donations.
But Netanyahu has his defenders as well.
Read more: The Jewish Chronicle - Israel s Netanyahu has his defenders detractors
