Congratulating Bibi
The White House isn’t going to do it, but I will: congratulations to Netanyahu on his resounding win.
Liberals in general are very miffed at the Israeli election results. But they’ve been angry at Israel for a long, long time, ever since the Likud Party first came to power in 1977. Until then, Israel was a country that had always been governed from the left.
So it’s no surprise whatsoever that the left in the US is unhappy at Netanyahu’s continuing hold on power. To them, it’s just another sign that Israel is unworthy of support and worthy of condemnation. The left hates Netanyahu (and Israel) even more now, if that’s possible, because he is openly despised by their leader Obama, and because Netanyahu has had the temerity to say what everyone already must know: that at the moment there is no two-state solution possible.
As Paul Mirengoff writes:
In 2009, Netanyahu was probably motivated to endorse a two-state solution in part by a desire to please the new Obama administration. In 2015, Netanyahu understands that, for him, there is no pleasing Obama. His support of a two-state solution did not lead to decent relations with Obama; nor did it lead to fruitful negotiations with the Palestinians.
It is not, therefore, demagoguery for Netanyahu to change his stated position on a Palestinian state. Indeed, given the rise of radical Islam, it would be irresponsible of him to cling to the position he took six years ago under very different conditions. In all likelihood, that position has been a dead-letter for some time.
“Two-state” solution is one of those phrases that have become practically meaningless except as a signal to the left that one’s heart is in the right place. I’m for peace! I’m for justice! I’m for lifting the downtrodden up! At this point, however, it’s degenerated into empty posturing among leftists, with no possibility of achievement in the real world because Israel has no partner for peace, as the events of the Camp David Summit failure followed by the Second Intifada, and the subsequent and continuing Palestinian stance towards Israel, have made crystal clear to anyone who wasn’t already mired in leftist and/or anti-Israel thinking. Netanyahu is now stating those facts openly, because he needed to court the right in his country and because there is no longer any reason to hide them in order to try to placate Obama or Europe.
Netanyahu’s win was much bigger than expected. He should have no trouble forming a government.
[ADDENDUM: Josh Earnest said that Obama will be calling Netanyahu to congratulate him “in the comning days.” Sure; he has to attend to some pressing concerns in the meantime. Oh, and he’ll be reprimanding Netanyahu for mentioning the last-minute get-out-the-Arab-vote campaign that Obama may have helped pay for. The White House is “deeply concerned” about such “divisive rhetoric.” ]
Congratulations Bibi! Israeli voters chose survival again.
Josh Earnest said that Obama will be calling Netanyahu to congratulate him “in the coming days.” Sure; he has to attend to some pressing concerns in the meantime.
Well, yeah. Those golf balls aren’t going to hit themselves, you know.
Netanyahu wins; Leftists apoplectic.
For me this is a two-fer! Schadenfeude may not be classy, but it sure is fun.
Rather ironic that Obama is deeply concerned about Netanyahu’s “divisive rhetoric.”
It’s one of his favorite style of argument.
Susanamantha,
Divisive rhetoric doesn’t bother him when it comes from Holder, Sharpton, or even himself. I think you could call that black privilege.
White House is “deeply concerned” about such “divisive rhetoric.”
After all the POTUS has made unifying rhetoric a part of his repertoire. You know, “bitter clingers… teabaggers…punish your enemies…I won.” 🙂
Just cling to your traditions, guns, and bibles… if only to p*ss off the left.
So, let me inquire as to the “official” Palestinian & Hamas 2-State Solution?? Iranian 2-State Stand?? O-ZERO. So, Bibi’s a bad dude?? BHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH…!!
http://obamaforwards.com/content/binary/ObamaDesert.gif
Bibi’s win is Obama’s loss.
And that will not sit well with Obama. I think he will finally go over the edge. No one; but no one says no to the Emperor! We will see Obama’s final meltdown.
Now, if only the Republicans can take advantage of it without the news media blaming them for it.
And I do have to say there is something about writing this that I feel okay calling Prime Minister Netanyahu by a nickname (Bibi); but can only think of calling Obama just that “Obama.” No nicknames for Obama (none that are respectful anyway.) It makes the one seem human and likeable, while the other is not.
BHO, the War Prize President, is already at it:
Making every effort to ‘Chamberlain’ Jerusalem down the river.
And, you wonder why Barry has a hard time keeping Jewish Liberals in his maladministration inside his camp.
The boy is infatuated with fanatical Islamists.
That such is so is patent.
Yet on Fox no-one can bear to state the obvious… and they are purportedly Conservatives.
(!)
The US is opening the UN front. As I said here earlier, the P5+1 negotiating with Iran are the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus its transient and non-voting member, Germany.
Now Foreign Policy (The magazine) reports western diplomats saying the Palestine-Israel Two State “Solution” will be tackled by the Security Council (same players), just after Bibi in closing his victorious election campaign said he was unalterably opposed to the Two State.
American militants should consider placing a kaboom device with Iranian fingerprints in the UN. Collateral damage is OK.
Obama’s “congratulations” to Bibi have just been conveyed:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/NY-Times-Obama-may-agree-to-UN-resolution-on-67-borders-after-Netanyahu-campaign-rhetoric-394428
More congrats to follow, no doubt.
Josh Earnest=Squealer in Animal Farm.
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