Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumPelosi blasts Netanyahu speech as ‘insult to intelligence of U.S.’, Amanpour calls it ‘dark, Strange
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/intelligence-ahmanpour-strangelovianBut sanity is breaking through. Christiane Amanpour called the speech dark, Strangelovian in its hysteria about Iran as Nazi Germany. Ambassador Marc Ginsberg said Netanyahu played guardian of the Jewish galaxy and the only thing missing was comparing Obama to Neville Chamberlain and saying the talks are taking place in Munich, not Montreux. Ginsberg said the speech precipitates the Congress on a steep slope and collision course with Obama.
And here is part of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosis important statement.
I was near tears throughout the Prime Ministers speech saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)she could have left, period.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)I am very disappointed that my PA Senators and House Rep attended.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)of the Netanyazoo's speech. My wonderful senator Mark Kirk, AIPAC's golden boy and adopted son on an allowance, had the following to say about the speech.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) went as far as to compare Netanyahu to another politician who once stood in the face of an expanding regional power.
Netanyahu, Kirk told The Huffington Post, is the Winston Churchill of our time.
It's amazing what money can buy. As a an Illinoisan, i'm so embarrassed!!!!!!!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Mark Kirk might not be far off the mark
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)that is really something that is just frightening. Never got that in my history classes and will do some further reading.
I think I will compose a letter to Sen. Kirk and apprise him of this. In a polite way of course. Of course!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)do not believe me?
go to the link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons
sabbat hunter
(6,839 posts)he used chemical weapons against the Russians not the Arabs.
"Churchill planned and executed a sustained chemical attack on northern Russia." It was sadly a time when chemical weapons were used by all sides in war, in this case when the UK was supporting the White Russians vs the Red Russians in their civil war.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I should have said explained about the British use and connected it to Churchill that way.