Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumThanks to Netanyahu, Israel support turns into a political football
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/netanyahu-support-political-footballFirst, friends are passing around this great cartoon in the New York Times, by Patrick Chappatte, which is pegged to Netanyahus speech. Netanyahu wants to build a settlement on Pennsylvania Avenue! So Netanyahus big moment is triggering a conversation about Israels unending occupation. Trita Parsi:
Not long ago, this carton in NYT was inconceivable. Thanks to Netanyahus overeach, its a reality now
Next, heres a crazy ad from the Emergency Committee for Israel that paints Obama as a glowering madman holding secret talks with Iran and Netanyahu as a teddy bear/supreme leader. The ads target is Hillary Clinton.
Sorry, I can't post the cartoon here. The criers would undoubtedly alert on it.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)"Israel, he pointed out, "has never signed any international convention regarding nuclear weapons. Israel refuses to allow international inspections. It would have been better, therefore, for Israel to remain on the sidelines. We will support any effort intelligence or political but we should always remain in the background."
Which doesn't mean that Israel has been doing nothing, Dagan stressed. "The first sanctions that were imposed on Iran in 2003 were because of Israel," and he acknowledged that Israeli clandestine operations had succeeded in delaying the Iranian nuclear program.
"When I stepped down as director of the Mossad in 2011, I said that Iran would not have nuclear weapons before 2015. I hate to say it, but I was right."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.644574