Posted on 07/18/2010 3:14:31 AM PDT by citizenredstater9271
A recently-revealed tape has shown Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, discussing ways to undermine the Oslo Accords and calling the United States "easy" to manipulate.
The video was filmed in 2001, apparently without Netanyahu's knowledge, during a meeting with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. It aired on Friday night on Israel's Channel 10, and several translations have been posted online.
At one point on the tape, Netanyahu threatens a "broad attack" against the Palestinian Authority.
"The main thing, first of all, is to hit them. Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne," Netanyahu said. "A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority."
The tape was shot during the early stages of the second intifada, when violence between Israelis and Palestinians was escalating. Netanyahu was speaking with settlers who lost family members to Palestinian attacks.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister at the time, had recently deployed additional Israeli troops in the West Bank.
Undermining the Oslo Accords
Netanyahu - who did not hold political office when the recording was made - was dismissive of the United States, calling it easily manipulated.
"I know what America is," Netanyahu said. "America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way."
Netanyahu also spoke extensively about undermining the Oslo Accords, the agreement signed in 1993 which set a framework for future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
The Oslo Accords specified that Israel would be allowed to keep "military zones" in the West Bank in any future agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu told the settlers he would use that loophole to retain large portions of Palestinian territory.
"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," he said.
"How do 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."
In the recording, Netanyahu described Bill Clinton - the former US president who helped to negotiate the accords - as "radically pro-Palestinian".
So Bibi thought Bill Clinton was ‘radically pro-Palestinian’? It just goes to show when you think things can’t get worse, they do! (Enter Obama!). Bibi was prophetic about the US being easily manipulated. How else was Obama elected.
“…Bill Clinton was ‘radically pro-Palestinian”
No kidding; now what would lead them to believe that!
So should it surprise them that Obama is an Islamist, a Neo-Marxist and follower of Anti-Americanism?
If the choice were between Clinton and obamma, I'm sure the PM would take Clinton!!!
I remember Bibi’s interviews during that time. He wasn’t saying anything behind closed doors that he wasn’t saying openly. He thought the whole premise behind Oslo was a sham, especially anything pertaining to a give-back of the Golan Heights.
My plea to Israel is NEVER give it back. THEY started that war with you in 1967, THEY lost in 6 days, and YOU won that territory.
To hell with those effing Palis and their mohammedan kind.
Absolutely spot-on.
I agree with what he says here.
I don’t think Bibi was in power in 2001, he definitely wasn’t during the last two Lebonese wars as far as I know....if he had been, the PLO Hezbollah Hamas etc would have been wiped off the planet....
Bush allowed them to do that, but through international pressure Israel was stopped.
Can you imagine, a part of Mexico starts sending rockets into Texas. We finally respond. Is there any doubt that we would respond to the point of assuring that it will never happen again. WE would attack and occupy.
Israel is bombarded with rockets. They finally attack...but they’re stopped.
Bibi is our modern day Winston Churchill. He unlike anyone else, short of BUSH but even he doesn’t recognize that it’s ISLAM not RADICAL ISLAM but ISLAM, who is the enemy here.
ISLAM is no more a religion than communism...There might be peaceful Muslims, but the religion itself is a religion of hate.
Anyway, that’s my humble opinion.
A nuclear Iran is the great equalizer. Israel cannot afford that threat. Without nuclear weapons, Israel can bloody their noses.
I realize now, more so than ever before, that as soon as it is confirmed without doubt that IRAN has the bomb, or clost to it...Israel will strike.
I think the intelligence at the time of BUSH indicated that IRAN was years away from having the bomb. Anything then can happen in the meantime internally.
I’m not sure what BUSH would have done differently, but during the Iranian revolt last year, it seems like there was a chance for us to support that uprising. The regime was on the ropes there for a few weeks.
But we did nothing. NOthing....
I’m wondering what Bush would have done...Anyone have any ideas?
“Netanyahu: US easily manipulated”
VERY easily. If we take a look at the mental and moral caliber of the people who have duped us, well, we can see how easy it’s been. If those morons could deceive us, anybody can do it.
And do you know who those morons are? They’re called “intellectuals” and they are hiding in the universities writing books. (See Thomas Sowell’s book “Intellectuals And Society”)
He’s not one of them. He exposes them for what they are and what they are doing to our nation.
It is really a matter of foreign policy doctrines or foreign policy schools.
Bush followed the NeoCon doctrine up until 2006 and the Iraq Study Group when he switched to the Realist Doctrine. Bob Gates, who left the Iraq Study Group to become SecDef for Bush, was the point man for the Realist Boarding party taking Bush's foreign policy away from the NeoCons.
Then, in 2008, Obama campaigned on Realist foreign policies and McCain campaigned on NeoCon policies.
Regarding Israel and Iran, the Realists say there is "Linkage". That there are many problems in the Mideast that are linked to to the Israeli-Palestinian issue that can't be solved until that issue is solved, and Iran is one of those problems that can't be solved until the Israeli-Palestinian issue is solve. The NeoCons say there is no "Linkage".
Some leftist Israeli’s probably been sitting on this tape until he/she thought it would do the most damage.
I am always amused by the term “Neocons.” Do you mean as opposed to paleocons? And what is the difference? If you mean the State Department of the fifties that hated Israel, as opposed to the State Department of today that hates Israel? I guess I don’t follow this flippant term “neocon.” Explain it to me, please.
What was his first clue? The magic negro as president?
And then he ran into a president who doesn't give crap about Israel or it's future.
“THEY started that war with you in 1967”???
Really?? Was history your worst subject in High School?
Speaking in generalities, the paleocons would be a subset of the foreign policy group known as "right wing isolationists", and they are definitely opposed to NeoCons.
There are 5 groups.
NeoCons aka idealists.
Realists aka Pragmatists
Liberal Interventionists aka national security democrats
Left wing pacifists aka kooks
Right wing isolationists aka kooks
As for your term "hates Israel" which is sometimes written as "hates Joooooos", that is just a race card that the NeoCons like to play to deflect criticism. So, let me ask you, is James Baker merely an Arabist, or is he a full fledged Jooooo hater?
I’m with ya - the neocon and paleocon terms are tossed around so frequently, I’d also like to get a definitive difference of the two.
To me, you’re a conservative or you’re not - stay with the core values.
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