{"id":7329,"date":"2015-03-05T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/bibi-and-barry-fundamental-differences\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:53:03","slug":"bibi-and-barry-fundamental-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/bibi-and-barry-fundamental-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibi and Barry: Fundamental Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bibi-and-barry\"<\/a>Daniel Greenfield<\/span>:<\/p>\n

In 1967, Benjamin Netanyahu skipped<\/a> his high school graduation in Pennsylvania to head off to Israel to help in the Six Day War. That same year Obama moved with his mother to Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Obama suggested that Israel return to the pre-1967 borders, described by Ambassador Eban, no right-winger, as \u201cAuschwitz borders,\u201d it was personal for Netanyahu. Like many Israeli teens, he had put his life on hold and risked it protecting those borders. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the seventies, Obama was part of the Choom Gang and Netanyahu was sneaking up on Sabena Flight 571 dressed as an airline technician. Inside were four terrorists who had already separated Jewish passengers and taken them hostage. Two hijackers were killed. Netanyahu took a bullet in the arm.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Prime Minister of Israel defended the operation in plain language. \u201cWhen blackmail like this succeeds, it only leads to more blackmail,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s speech in Congress was part of that same clash of worldviews. His high school teacher remembered him saying that his fellow students were living superficially and that there was \u201cmore to life than adolescent issues.\u201d He came to Congress to cut through the issues of an administration that has never learned to get beyond its adolescence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s people had taunted him with by calling him \u201cchickens__t.\u201d They had encouraged a boycott of his speech and accused him of insulting Obama. They had thrown out every possible distraction to the argument he came to make. Unable to argue with his facts, they played Mean Girls politics instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu had left high school behind to go to war. Now he was up against overgrown boys and girls who had never grown beyond high school. But even back then he had been, as a fellow student had described him, \u201cThe lone voice in the wilderness in support of the conservative line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all against the war in Vietnam because we were kids,\u201d she said. The kids are still against the war. Against all the wars; unless it\u2019s their own wars. Netanyahu grew up fast. They never did.<\/span><\/p>\n

Netanyahu could have played their game, but instead he began by thanking Obama. His message was not about personal attacks, but about the real threat that Iran poses to his country, to the region and to the world. He made that case decisively and effectively as few other leaders could.<\/span><\/p>\n

He did it using plain language and obvious facts. <\/span><\/p>\n

Netanyahu reminded Congress that the attempt to stop North Korea from going nuclear using inspectors failed. The deal would not mean a denuclearized Iran. \u201cNot a single nuclear facility would be demolished,\u201d he warned. And secret facilities would continue working outside the inspections regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

He quoted the former head of IAEA\u2019s inspections as saying, \u201cIf there\u2019s no undeclared installation today in Iran, it will be the first time in 20 years that it doesn\u2019t have one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And Netanyahu reminded everyone that Iran\u2019s \u201cpeaceful\u201d nuclear program would be backed by ongoing development of its intercontinental ballistic missile program that would not be touched under the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

He warned that the deal would leave Iran with a clear path to a nuclear endgame that would allow it to \u201cmake the fuel for an entire nuclear arsenal\u201d in \u201ca matter of weeks\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s mission is to export Jihad around the world, he cautioned. It\u2019s a terrorist state that has murdered Americans. While Obama claims to have Iran under control, it has seized control of an American ally in Yemen and is expanding its influence from Iraq to Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its newly moderate government \u201changs gays, persecutes Christians, jails journalists.\u201d It\u2019s just as bad as ISIS, except that ISIS isn\u2019t close to getting a nuclear bomb.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran\u2019s founding document pledges death, tyranny, and the pursuit of jihad,\u201d he said. It was the type of clarity that he had brought to the difficult questions of life as a teenager. It is a clarity that still evades Obama today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the rest<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Greenfield: In 1967, Benjamin Netanyahu skipped his high school graduation in Pennsylvania to head off to Israel to help in the Six Day War. That same year Obama moved with his mother to Indonesia. When Obama suggested that Israel return to the pre-1967 borders, described by Ambassador Eban, no right-winger, as \u201cAuschwitz borders,\u201d it … Continue reading “Bibi and Barry: Fundamental Differences”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,56,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}