Netanyahu is going to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, and for a meeting with Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, with a burning mission. He is determined to pour cold water on the love affair that is developing between the West, led by the United States, and Iran, under the stewardship of its new soft-spoken leader, Hassan Rohani. The premier will be armed with intelligence attesting that even in this new era, Iran is behind widespread global terror activity. He will point out in the conversations he holds and the interviews he grants a series of ostensibly “blatant” lies in the interview Rohani gave to America’s NBC network last week. He will draw a direct line between the swindle that North Korea perpetrated on the U.S. eight years ago − which began with nuclear talks and ended with a rather impressive nuclear explosion − and the “something new” that is supposedly happening now in Iran. And perhaps one other little thought will flit through the prime minister’s mind before his eyelids grow heavy. He will recollect the group of noisy politicians who followed him all the way to Ben-Gurion airport. Instead of giving him freedom to maneuver in the roiling political domain, they badgered him with “a public letter” (from seven of his ministers) linking the release of Palestinian prisoners to the murders of soldiers in Qalqilyah and Hebron during the past week, and demanding another government debate over going ahead with the move to free the prisoners, and pestered him with a newspaper ad (taken out by the Knesset’s Land of Israel lobby, on the front page of Haaretz in Hebrew last Friday) that demanded that Netanyahu retract his support for the two-state solution both in the UN forum and in his meeting with Obama.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 02:38:02 +0000
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