The more I have thought about it, the more I have come to the conclusion that, although I expect Republicans to pass a bill to block the international effort to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands, they will not be able to overcome the presidential veto that will follow. Then why is Benjamin Netanyahu (R-IS), aka Butcher Bibi, investing so much of himself in the Republican effort? I’ve gotten pretty close, but the following author understands.
…On the battle to come the headline over a story in The Times of Israel put it this way. AIPAC girds for rare high-noon showdown with White House.
The first question arising is this. Does Netanyahu really believe that with AIPAC’s assistance he can mobilize Zionism’s election campaign funders and those in Congress who do their bidding to kill the deal?
Unless he is completely out of touch with the way things are moving in Washington D.C, Netanyahu must know there is no chance of Congress coming up with the two-thirds majority necessary to over-ride an Obama veto of legislation to kill the deal.
So what, really, is Netanyahu’s game plan for America?
The only answer I can think of is that he is reconciled to the fact that a growing number of Democrats in Congress are no longer prepared to do the Zionist state’s bidding when doing it is clearly not in America’s own best interests. Even Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for the 2016 race to the White House, felt that gave her the freedom to endorse the deal with Iran. She said, "With vigorous enforcement, unyielding verification and swift consequences for any violations, this agreement can make the United States, Israel and our Arab partners safer."
In that light it seems to me Netanyahu’s game plan is to say and do whatever he thinks will assist the Republicans to rubbish President Obama and win the White House in 2016, in the hope that a Republican president will kill the deal.
If that is the hope in Netanyahu’s deluded mind it is no doubt being encouraged by the statements of all the Republicans who are offering themselves as presidential candidates… [emphasis added]
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Effectively what we had here is the Republican Party conspiring with a foreign power to undermine America’s foreign policy and influence an American election. This is nothing short of criminal sedition.
American Jews have been more likely to vote for Democrats, because so many are social liberals. But that has been with both Republicans and Democrats supporting Israel, even against our own self interest. Therefore Butcher Bibi’s partisan stance will shift some Jewish voters to the Republicans in 2016.
However, I think we need to stress that killing the deal would lead to a nuclear armed Iran with nothing to lose. That is the most dangerous scenario for the people of Israel, so American Jews can support Israel best by opposing Butcher Bibi (R-IS), and abandoning AIPAC, which is now dominated by Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the opposite of real authentic Christians).
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Nasty, vicious little man – sort of the Donald of Israel, all wrapped up in his own ego, not caring what havoc he creates.
This has become one of the most ridiculous fights the clowns of 2016 presidential candidates. War and fear. Power and greed is the 4 things the republican/tea party live and wear in pride. I hope the American people can see thru them like water and are just in joying the show . Because a show is all it is it has no substance.
I think a bit more like Scott Walker – so secretive – no one ever has to wonder what the Donald is thinking, he spits it right out, even when it is idiotic. But Bibi is also his own Koch brothers, which may make him even more dangerous.
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article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/why-is-the-new-york-times-swiftboating-j-street_b_7876026.html
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Fon't forget Adelman doing the press PR dance in Israel for Bibi
I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again:
I hope that he and his small-minded buddies in our Conress are digging their own political graves with their scheming.
Other countries who ordinarily have supported Israel have spoken out against Bibi of late and 100% of the UN Security Council voted to approve the deal. Thus it is the deal the rest of the world will follow no matter what this Congress thinks they are going to do.
Bibi used Boehner to get re elected. He will stoop to any level to maintain his control. He should never have been allowed to interfere with American politics, but I am sure his owners are friends with the Repub owners, they all have a bone to pick. I hope you are right, that they cannot get enough votes to overturn a presidential veto. This is not a great deal, but it is better than no deal.
Let's face it, Tom Cotton and the other 46 passengers on the Sedition Express stated clearly in their missive to the Ayatollahs of Iran that should this deal be approved, a subsequent administration (read as Republicanus/Teabaggerum) would not necessarily honour the deal (read that as 'would scrap the deal').
The author's theory makes perfect sense to me . . . Bibi is basically treading water until he has the right conditions to strike and get the deal scrapped.
"Effectively what we had here is the Republican Party conspiring with a foreign power to undermine America’s foreign policy and influence an American election. This is nothing short of criminal sedition. " I so agree with you.
Jut yesterday I was thinking how everyone, except us, seems to have forgotten about the letter 47 Republicans sent Iran's Ayatollah's warning them the Republicans would any nuclear deal as soon as they came to power. As this outrageous act nor the previous outlandish act of the GOP inviting Netanyahu to speak before Congress had any negative consequences for the GOP (what happened to all those petitions against them?) Netanyahu may feel rather secure in these signs of loyalties to him, leader of a sovereign foreign state, and the implied denouncement of the democratically chosen leader of their own country. And in any other country this would be considered conspiracy and sedition. But as neither Netanyahu's invitation to speak nor the letter to the Ayatollahs had any consequences at all, why would this be any different and lead to some action by Democrats?
It's obvious that Netanyahu is treading water with great confidence. In the eye of the public, he's still lord an master over Israel after the elections and he's got the Republicans, who as far as he's aware will take full control of Congress and/or the presidency, on a leash. It's up to liberal America, including American Jews to get Netanyahu out of his comfort zone and show him who really is boss and prove Netanjahy wrogn once and for all.
Sorry about the many missing letters and even whole words, my keyboard is on the blink it seems.
I cannot believe that democracy has gone so wrong – yet the Repugs prove it again and again. Sedition.
Thanks and hugs. Prison volunteer day. Big rush.