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FOR the first time in a long time now, I was impressed by President Barack Obama.
About a month ago when it was revealed that, House Speaker John Boehner, had invited Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Obama’s Iran policy in Congress, some senior military figures warned there’s a limit to what they consider acceptable criticism of their Commander-in-Chief.
President Obama and his generals have clashed publicly since 2009 over his plans to draw down troops and exit Afghanistan. A number of respected retired top commanders told Congress the administration’s piecemeal strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria was doomed to fail.
Some have also publicly recorded misgivings about President Obama’s Iran strategy.
Boehner’s decision to invite a foreign head of government to address Congress without first consulting the sitting President has no precedent in American history.
Given the acrimony between Boehner and President Obama, there is no doubt Boehner expected the generals to welcome his criticism of Obama but strangely, they did not endorse his invitation.
With the US Presidential election coming up in 2016 the Republicans are pulling every dirty trick in the book.
President Obama is attempting to negotiate an end to the Iranian nuclear crisis. The United States is cooperating across the board with other world powers in this volatile, dangerous situation because nuclear escalation potentially affects every nation on the planet.
The United States, Britain, China, Russia, Germany and France all have negotiators at the talks trying to keep the peace and persuade Iran to stand down.
Of course those war hawks in Congress will not have any of that.
War is good business for the Republicans given that the American military industrial complex is a major campaign contributor, and they need all the dollars they can get election time.
President Barack Obama has refused to see Netanyahu in March, saying it would be ‘inappropriate’ to do so just ahead of the parliamentary election in Israel this month.
CNN reports that a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey that came out on Sunday March 1 2015, found that 48 percent of registered voters disapprove of congressional Republicans’ move to invite Netanyahu to address Congress without notifying President Barack Obama first.
Thirty percent say the invitation was okay, and another 22 percent said they didn’t know enough to judge.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the emerging nuclear deal between the United States, Iran, and the major world powers during a drama-filled address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday morning.
In typical hyped up propaganda to prop up the Jewish State, Netanyahu claimed that “Iran’s regime is not merely a Jewish problem, any more than the Nazi regime was merely a Jewish problem.
“The six million Jews murdered by the Nazis were, but a fraction of the 60 million people killed in World War II.
“So, too, Iran’s regime poses a grave threat, not only to Israel, but also the peace of the entire world.”
What Netanyahu will never admit to is that there is a thriving Jewish-Iranian minority.
“Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America…In this deadly game of thrones, there’s no place for America or for Israel, no peace for Christians, Jews or Muslims who don’t share the Islamist medieval creed, no rights for women, no freedom for anyone.” 
These statements expose Netanyahu’s fear that negotiations with Iran will see tacit US recognition that Iran is a major regional power player.
In politics there are no permanent friends. Netanyahu has reason to worry.
“North Korea turned off the cameras, kicked out the inspectors. Within a few years, it got the bomb. Now, we’re warned that within five years North Korea could have an arsenal of 100 nuclear bombs. Like North Korea, Iran, too, has defied international inspectors. It’s done that on at least three separate occasions – 2005, 2006, 2010. Like North Korea, Iran broke the locks, shut off the cameras…the IAEA, said again yesterday that Iran still refuses to come clean about its military nuclear programme. Iran was also caught – caught twice, not once, twice – operating secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom, facilities that inspectors didn’t even know existed. Right now, Iran could be hiding nuclear facilities that we don’t know about, the US and Israel.”
Again Netanyahu plays to the gallery, Israel refuses to confirm or deny possessing nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have them.
It has refused to join the non-proliferation treaty.
His pointing fingers at Iran and other states is like the kettle calling the pot black.
After 40 minutes of speaking, punctuated by standing ovations from the republicans, Netanyahu failed to offer any alternatives for ensuring that Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons.
I am pleased that President Obama chose to tell Netanyahu is blowing hot air, and that negotiations are the best way forward.
It’s time America stopped believing
the propaganda that all of Muslim is based on the warped idea to annihilate Israeli.
If Israel is really interested about world peace, let it lead by example, instead of trying to coerce the American Government into spending our tax dollars on its military.
The health care system is deteriorating, school standards are falling, most minority children do not even have enough food to eat at any given day and yet Government is spending billions on Israel.

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