Posted on 03/11/2015 8:06:50 PM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare penned, and last week I was fortunate to behold a performance for the ages, one that moved its standing-room-only audience.
Sitting in the gallery above a joint session of Congress and feeling history’s weight at our civilization’s fateful crossroads, I watched Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enter the House chamber to thunderous bipartisan applause before delivering a gracious, credible and consequential speech.
Defending our common heritage and interests, Netanyahu received 43 ovations from ideologically diverse lawmakers, reflecting our countries’ durable bond — for which he expressed fervent gratitude — and our mutual desire for lasting peace and security.
In an era starving for leadership, moral clarity and courage, Netanyahu served a feast. With the Iranian nuclear-negotiation deadline looming, he implored us to Think Again about the reported concession-laden deal that would make a nuclear-armed power out of the planet’s most lethal terrorist state — the one jailing journalists, hanging gays, stoning women, dominating sovereign nations and inciting violence responsible for American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaking before legislators entrusted with upholding America’s founding ethic, Netanyahu contrasted it with the Iranian theocracy’s principles — “death, tyranny and the pursuit of jihad” — disputing the notion that the “Death to America” regime could become a responsible power among nations.
Of the Iranian theocracy’s apocalyptic mindset, Bernard Lewis, one of the great scholars of Islam, observed, “Mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent — it’s an inducement.”
Hence Netanyahu’s warning: “The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons. To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle but lose the war. We can’t let that happen,” he declared to strong applause.
Despite promising repeatedly to prevent Iran’s radical regime from ever obtaining nuclear
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Let’s hear it for Benjamin Netanyahu; the Real Leader of The Free World. Even if the leftists succeed in getting Bibi voted out of position, I think his influence will continue to be felt for years. His influence will be evidenced through his many supporters, who will continue to raise issues of appropriate concern.
It won’t change a thing, but years from now people will be able to say we were warned.
I’ve been called an antisemite a bunch of times, and ya know what?
I love Bibi..!
He’s more my Prez than that other guy...
I had no idea Maimonides was there, glad to know it.
I thought of Jim Trafficant and how HE was Captain Obvious so many times.
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