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For The Sake of Jerusalem’s Peace, Speech to Opening Knesset Session by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (From the Netanyahu website)
Excerpts;
Israel can suceed!
We can succeed in every field – in building a prosperous economy, in developing advanced technology, in fostering excellence in education, in creating a strong society, in combating crime and violence and in so much more.
Some of these efforts are already underway. The free market reforms we implemented filled the state coffers with billions of shekels that can now be directed toward helping those who are truly needy.
With courageous leaders who can make tough decisions and implement fundamental reforms, we can finish the job.
But first and foremost, we need a government that knows how to neutralize the serious threats that confront us.
The primary objective for our national defense has been and remains to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
This is an objective that I reiterated at the start of the current Knesset’s session, and for many years my colleagues and I have emphasized in the clearest terms its paramount importance.
Commentary;
If “the primary objective for our national defense has been and remains to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,” why does Netanyahu confine the discussion to “influence [of] world leaders and international public opinion to act with determination against Iran” and to use solely economic means to nix a nuclear Iran?
Interesting how Bibi employs this catch-all “all means – economic and others” regarding prevention of a nuclear Iran. It seems to this author that the terms “all means – … and others” denote a pretty lame allusion to military options. It’s a sad state of affairs when Israel’s defense capability is confined to trying to influence the diplomacy and economic affairs of the nations, ALL of whom hold Israel as expendable in accordance with their own self-interests.
Further, notice how Bibi wraps everything, all of the external adversaries Israel faces, around his so-called “Iranian octopus.” MB
The unilateral withdrawal from Gaza created a second Iranian base in the south – Hamastan – from which Iranian financed terror groups attack Sderot, Ashkelon and the Western Negev.
As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that this threat is spreading ever wider, reaching more and more parts of the country, including yesterday’s rocketing near Netivot.
And now the government plans a further withdrawal in Judea and Samaria a move that will inevitably create in the center of the country a third Iranian base that will threaten Jerusalem and the entire coastal plain.
These three tentacles of the Iranian Octopus will thus envelop Israel from every side!
Commentary 2;
While he cannot be seen as complicit in Ehud Barak’s withdrawal from South Lebanon, Bibi speaks about the implications and consequences of the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, the “unilateral withdrawal” he calls it.
But when Netanyahu, as Finance Minister, could have toppled the Sharon/Olmert Expulsion regime by resigning, leaving the government and taking others with him, he remained in his seat.
Bibi feigns as the opposition candidate to the Olmert, Barak, Lieberman, Ramon regime. But his past prime ministerial history; 80% of Hevron, the Wye Agreement and his complicity regarding expulsion of Jews and his repeated attempts to subvert and oust Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit from Likud due to their opposition of him and due to their faith-based platform, betrays the hard fact that Bibi is no better, and at least equal in cruelty, vindictiveness and anti-Jewish, anti-Torah mindset to Olmert, Barak, Lieberman or Ramon. Has Netanyahu done T’shuva? No a chance! MB
To read Netanyahu’s Knesset speech in full, For The Sake of Jerusalem’s Peace, Speech to Opening Knesset Session by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, click here.
Hat tip to Dr. Aaron Lerner & IMRA