Right wing MKs: Obama is the new Arafat

[azurnoir]

Knesset members on the Right expressed outrage on Thursday night at US President Barack Obama's call for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps in an exchange of territory for security.

They called upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reject Obama's plan when he meets with him on Friday in Washington.

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"Barack Hussein Obama adopted the staged plan for Israel's destruction of Yasser Arafat, and he is trying to force it on our prime minister," said Likud MK Danny Danon. "All that was new in the speech was that he called for Israel to return to 1967 borders without solving the crisis. Netanyahu has only one option: To tell Obama forget about it."

National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari also slammed Obama's speech, calling it "a landmine with pretty wrapping."

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221383

[Poll_Blind]

1. The Israeli right does not look favorably on his middle name, his outlook or his skin color.

Netanyahu has already (as reported by Reuters/Haaretz/et al.) said that Obama's plan poses an existential threat to Israel.

PB

[oberliner]

4. The ADL is behind him though and support his speech

ADL Applauds President Obama's Strong Outline of Principles for U.S. Policy in Middle East Supports His Vision for a Two-State Solution

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adl-applauds-president-obamas-strong-outline-of-principles-for-us-policy-in-middle-east-supports-his-vision-for-a-two-state-solution-122245123.html

[azurnoir]

5. let's see what Netanyahu says when he's here and if that changes the ALD's stance

it would be interesting indeed to see Foxman and Netanyahu at logger heads

[Poll_Blind]

6. You're misrepresenting the ADL's statement which doesn't mention the '67 borders at all.

They don't support President Obama, and you know it. They just support the call for preventing a Palestinian state being declared in the UN. Something which has popular support at the moment, from other world governments.

PB

[shira]

7. Why should it? The ADL is clear they support the speech and don't have a problem with it.

Read Obama's speech for yourself in which he calls for 1967 borders with mutually agreed land swaps. That's the same thing the Clinton Parameters were based on a decade ago, and which Israel's cabinet agreed to.

Only the nutter rightwingers are making mountains out of molehills about this.

[oberliner]

9. It's cut and pasted from their own press release

Nothing is "misrepresented" - it's literally a verbatim link to the statement they released to the press.

[LeftishBrit]

2. If both Hamas and the Israeli far right are condemning his speech...

then he must be doing something right.

[azurnoir]

3. Evidently Netanyahu hears the MK's plea's

"Those borders are not defensible," PM rages as he flies off to Washington; Palestinian state must not come "at Israel’s expense"; US President urges resumed talks, focused on territory, security, with refugee, J'lem issues left until later.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221397

[classysassy]

8. The Knesset hate our position but love our money

can't have it both ways boys and girls.Justice or no Mammon.

[Mosby]

13. Why conceal your intent?

I had to look up "mammon" it's from the Christian bible and refers to "god of wealth, regarded as evil or immoral; 'those who worship mammon' are equivalent to greedy people who value money too highly" so why use an archaic word when what you meant to say was "greedy Jews"?

Real classy, sassy.

[bemildred]

10. Arafat? I mean really, Arafat? That's the best they could come up with?

I mean the "creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps in an exchange of territory for security" is not exactly a new idea, the Israeli government has been known to trot it out on occasion to fend off something seen as worse.

[oberliner]

11. Not only is it not a new idea, it's an idea that Livni supports

She who should have been prime minister has had a very different reaction to Obama's speech than these RW Likud MKs.

[bemildred]

12. I agree that Livni would have been a better choice, Bibi is a narcissistic fool. nt