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Speaking Truth to the U.N General Assembly: Netanyahu
Today, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu made a powerful speech at the United Nations. He told those who gathered to hear him that he hadn’t planned to come to the U.N. this year, but there were so many lies being told about Israel and the war in Gaza that he believed he had to set the record straight. This is a partial list of points he chose to make:
- That Israel was fighting a seven-front war, if you included all the Iran proxies;
- That since October 7, Hezbollah had set off 8,000 rockets toward Israel;
- That 23 of 24 Hamas battalions had been decimated, and their power had been devastated;
- That Israel was not committing genocide but Hamas was.
- That Hamas was stealing from the delivery of 700,000 pounds of food that were being delivered to the Palestinians, keeping some of the deliveries and selling the rest back to the Palestinians at exorbitant prices.
- That he would not stop fighting until all the hostages were returned.
He made this last point a few times throughout his speech. Many people have speculated that he would abandon the rescue of the hostages, or even recommended that he should, but he insisted that the war in Gaza wouldn’t be over until all the hostages were recovered, dead or alive.
But the statement he made that got my attention was that he called the body he was speaking to, the U.N. General Assembly, an anti-Semitic organization; he reminded those who attended that in the last ten years, Israel had been slapped with twice as many resolutions against it as all of the other countries in the U.N. combined.
I think that all of us can no longer mince words when we talk about Jews and Israel, against protestors and terrorists. It’s all about anti-Semitism, about hatred of the Jews that we have tolerated for centuries.
We can only hope that the time will come when the other Arab countries in the Middle East recognize that there is strength in numbers, and if they unite with Israel against Iran, they have a chance to maintain their sovereignty and maybe achieve peace.
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First Zionists needed to have a nation of their own so Jewish people could be safe. (Supposedly “a land without a people for a people without a land.”)
Then the Israelis avoided a two state solution as otherwise they would not feel safe.
In order to do this, AIPAC came about in the late 1960’s so that there would be a staunch monetary control over American political processes.
By the mid 1980’s, Sen Charles Percy, a Republican, gave up on running for re-election, as he knew he could not win against AIPAC and other internal-US-Jewish-forces.
In 1992, George Herbert Walker Bush ran for re-election. It was well known that he was going to pursue a two state solution if re-elected.
AIPAC threw their support to Bill Clinton, and guess who won?
Now we are told the war must expand from Gaza to Lebanon, and then onto Iran!
Currently all three people who have had their hats in the ring to run for the Oval Office are allied with AIPAC and Israel. (RFK Jr, Harris, and Trump.) This is the logical result of decades of AIPAC pressures.
Yes the Biden administration has verbally spanked Netanyahu, several times. This stance occurred as the Administration needs to appeal to its young voters, who happen to be their base. But several weeks later, and without much fanfare the Biden/Kamala Forces hand out exactly what they were asked to hand out. I have lost track of how much of the war there has come from our pockets but it might be over 100 billion bucks.
In order to keep a lid on all this, there will be a loss of free speech here in the USA. The international standard for “anti-semitic” speech makes it impossible to recount various historic occurrences, such as when Christians recite the fact that the Jews killed Christ. It would also be impossible to critique any aspect of on going US policies that favor Israel, or Israeli policies themselves.
It might end up that we will no longer be able to say “America First” without adding “And Israel First too!”
I very much doubt that Netanyahu touched any of these truths in his UN speech.
I haven’t watched the address yet. Did he cover the fact that the UNRWA is utterly compromised by Hamas?
BREAKING: Israel Takes Out Hezbollah Headquarters (townhall.com)
The civil authorities of the time killed Jesus and that was the Romans. It is also true that as Christians we believe that Jesus died and was resurrected to take away our sins. So the death was necessary. As such, let’s stop with the canard that the Jews killed Jesus. It is a vicious lie that has led to thousands of years of persecution of the Jewish people.
Oh Carol, I’m not prepared to list all the untruths, exaggerations and remarkable conspiracy theories that you list. It’s pretty much the same stuff you usually share.
No, he stayed away from that. He only had an hour! Somewhere I heard that although UNRWA denied knowing about the tunnels, an entrance could only be found in their location! But Bibi might not have said that…
OMG, Django! They will definitely need to determine if they got Nasrallah! Cutting off the head of the snake! Thanks again! You are becoming my “go-to” guy! (That may have been a few too many exclamation marks.)
Hezbollah has been firing rockets and artillery attacks from Lebanon into Israel since October 8. Hezbollah like Hamas in Gaza is supported both with arms and money from Iran. Then there are attacks coming from Yemen. Iran is sitting fat and happy and untouched in spite of Iranian support in the US to try and influence our election, supporting Hamas demonstrations, and planning assassinations in the US.
Perhaps it might be time for the US to move US Naval forces out of the Persian Gulf and once they leave conduct cruise missile strikes on Iranian naval bases, seaports, and the Iranian airport to stop weapon shipments to Lebanon and Yemen.
We might want to believe that Iran is not a threat to the US, but what we might want to believe is not as important as what the Mullahs believe. They believe they are at war with not just Israel.
Completely agree, Doug. And I like your naval suggestion. Great idea!
When his film was being discussed, Mel Gibson said that the “instruments of His demise” were what he called the Jewish priesthood and the Roman administrators. There were no Aleutian islanders there, no Norwegians, and no Aztecs. His followers were also Jewish, so the idea that guilt for His death extends to Jews today or even to all Jews of His time is simply stupid.
Seemed reasonable to me.
The Israelis just hit Hezbollah hdqtrs. Not sure if they hit Nasrallah.
IowaHawk is already having fun with the story:
The mullahs need to smell some smoke.
I look forward to finding out which delegations walked out when Bibi started his speech. I’ll be astonished if my own lot stuck around.
Don’t know how reliable this source is:
I want to hear it directly from the IDF. Although it could be true.
I’m off for Shabbat; some of us Jews do that! ;-)
See you tomorrow night. Carry on; great discussion.
Updates coming quickly:
AP:
Newsweek:
The Hill:
I wonder how many pagers they had to call at once, do to that?
Lesson: Assassination alone is insufficient, if they leave a force in being. Israelis are probably smart enough to know that. Expect the next act to be destruction of the Hezbollah rank and file, sufficient to where their Arab enemies – of which they have many – finish the job.
Someone should have told Hamas this prior to their invasion and mass murder of 1200 Israeli civilians.
Yep, exactly. The statement by The Hill is foolish. Near-term success can be transitory, or it can lead to long-term success. It all depends on how you follow it up. Those that caution that near-term success is transitory are precisely those who want Israel to go wobbly and ensure future terrorist attacks.
It is a classic terrorist tactic to provoke a response. Hamas knew that any kind of permanent military victory was impossible. I don’t believe that was their objective.
So, what, they decided to kick the hive, and then blame the bees for stinging?
It’s Israel’s objective that matters. If they have the resolve, they can parlay short-term success into long-term success. If not, we’ll end up back here at some point.
It worked. They got a response.
I will never forget, or discount, Nidal Malik Hasan’s quote:
AP:
Splitting hairs, are we?
The Romans, being the overlords of that region, were the administers of the court system that was in charge of criminals.
Rome had no ability to handle criminal execution in its territories. That belonged to whomever was the governor of the area, in this case Pontius Pilate.
Pilate asked the crowd if they wanted Jesus or Barabbas to be released. The hostile crowd wanted Barabbas released and Jesus crucified.
“At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need any more witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy. What is your verdict?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death. Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.…” – Gospel of Mark 14:63-65
Had that mob of Jewish people decided differently, then Jesus would have been released.
Should Pilate have refused to pay attention to the mobs demands? Yeah, that would have been great. He had the ability to do that, I imagine. But if the full blown “anti-semitic” speech laws go into effect, I surmise that the section of the Gospel that spells out how the Jewish mob demanded Jesus’ crucifixion will have to be deep-sixxed.
Many facets of many different peoples’ histories could be said to have the ability to inflame one group of people to turn against another. Just looking into England’s imperialistic policies that ruled the world, one uncovers a great deal of brutal activities employed against those whom the English overlords saw as their inferiors.
England vs China and the Chinese people.
England vs India and the Indian people.
England vs the criminal element that it banished to the shores of Australia.
England for seven hundred years against the peoples of Scotland and Ireland.
But so far only Jewish people have the ability in Western societies to bring about censorship that includes denying people the ability to bring actual recorded facts to light, as well as to negate the ability to question and debate various historical events.
Over the last decade, the ADL has played a leading role in the (so far failed) attempts to laws in Massachusetts, which if passed would impose civil and/or criminal penalties on Massachusetts residents that boycott Israel.
Remember this principle: the truth celebrates the introduction of sunlight, while falsehoods love the darkness?
Hitler once told Albert Speer that he got the idea of what to do with Jewish people from the way Americans had treated the indigenous people. The semi-extinction of Native Americans is a fact – yet we still have two trains of thought on this semi-extinctions’ occurrence. One being that when a society with a greater technological capability and which is greater in numbers comes along, the more primitive people suffers. And that is that.
The other side is that the Native Americans got the short end of the stick and that this is regrettable.
But no one censors one or the other side of the Native American debate to the point that jail time and fines can arise.
https://www.jta.org/2021/01/15/global/the-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism-and-why-people-are-fighting-over-it-explained