March 3, 2015, - 8:52 am
What Netanyahu Should Say to Congress Today But Won’t; What’s Really Behind the Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should say a lot of things in his speech to Congress, but he won’t say any of them–about growing problems in Israel, like illegal immigration and Muslim birthrates, which are arguably just as dangerous to Israel as the Iranian threat, and which are just as dangerous to America. And, as I’ve said before, I support Netanyahu making the speech, but I think the whole speech and the invitation to give it are a whole lot of smoke and mirrors.
House Speaker John Boehner claims the invitation is about Netanyahu’s experience with Iran’s growing nuclear threat at a time when Barack Obama opposes new sanctions with Iran and wants to seal a stupid deal with the country. But none of that is new. Netanyahu has spoken to Congress before on this exact same topic: Iran. And he won’t say anything differently today than what he’s said before. The message is the same. Israel has been living with the Iranian nuclear threat for over a decade, and each time over that decade-plus, we’ve been told that Iran is “this close” to getting nukes. And, throughout that time, the U.S. hasn’t done much.
Under President Bush, we relaxes sanctions against Iran from the tougher stance of Bill Clinton. Clinton, as I’ve noted on this site, allowed only $8 million in “emergency goods” to be sold by U.S. companies to Iran. Bush relaxed this to about $150 million, including Coke, Pepsi, and underwire bras, making sanctions all but meaningless. GOP pretender Carly Fiorina set up a non-U.S. subsidiary of HP, so she could trade and send computers, printers, and ink to the ayatollahs and their people and get around the embargo.
And throughout all of this time, Israel–yes, Netanyahu–hasn’t done anything to attack Iran and destroy its nukes, so they will come to fruition. I don’t believe the stories over the weekend alleging that Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes if the Israelis tried to attack Iranian nuclear. The story’s timing, just before Netanyahu’s speech and in a Kuwaiti newspaper, are suspicious. Kuwait, a Sunni emirate, hates Iran and is allied with Israel if not openly so, about the need to destroy the Iranian threat.
But what I do believe is that Obama won’t–just like Bush wouldn’t, despite Dick Cheney’s urging otherwise–provide Israel with the needed bunker busters to destroy the Iranian nuclear sites. It is nearly impossible to penetrate Iran’s nuclear development program, as I’ve said over and over on this site, over the years, and without the bunker busters, it is certainly impossible. The reason is that Iran learned from Israel’s destruction of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi nuclear silos at Osirak. Osirak was one location with a few nuclear concentrated nuclear sites. So, Iran built its silos and nuclear labs underground, reinforced with cement. And it spread them throughout the country, reportedly in something like 39 to 70 locations. This makes an instant destruction difficult to do, requires a lot of pilot or on-the-ground manpower, and–if all sites aren’t destroyed at once–removes the element of surprise necessary for such an attack.
Netanyahu should really speak to Congress about the growing immigration problem in Israel that may destroy the country from within. Despite ignorant comments from the clueless (Ann Coulter wrote an entirely ignorant column claiming Israel deports its illegal aliens and doesn’t have our open borders problems; the purpose of the column was to attack Jews and promote her openly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, late friend Joseph Sobran) Israel doesn’t instantly deport its illegal aliens and has exactly the same problems we do with open borders. Israel has the same far-left judges who’ve ruled Israel can’t throw these invaders out. Israel has the same social welfare system and entitlements windfall–actually, much more generous–that it showers on illegal aliens. Israel has the same burgeoning birthrate problems with Muslims inside its borders–Muslims who identify as “Palestinians” but hold Israeli passports and vote a growing number of open HAMAS and Hezbollah supporters into Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset. I’ve written about these Arab Muslim Knesset Members who call for HAMAS to destroy the country from within. This growing Muslim critical mass from within is Israel’s problem and will soon be–actually, it is already–ours.
But Netanyahu’s host–the man who extended the invitation for today’s speech–Speaker Boehner, is an open supporter of granting illegal aliens the right to stay, unfettered, unchecked, and unvetted (there is NO way to vet these people, despite what he and his “comprehensive immigration reform” comrades say). And that’s, likely, the whole reason behind this invitation in the first place. Boehner is under fire from conservatives over his support for immigration amnesty and other positions which aren’t conservative and aren’t good for America. But conservatives–particularly, conservative Christians of the evangelical variety–are very pro-Israel. And his invitation to Netanyahu gives Boehner points with them. It also gives Boehner accolades for pretend-opposition to Obama, who is openly against the Netanyahu speech and invitation. Each gets to grandstand and play the tough guy–Boehner, Obama, and yet, even, Netanyahu.
While I want Netanyahu to win Israel’s impending elections–his closest opponent is lefty Labor candidate Isaac Herzog, who vows to restart “negotiations” (translation: concessions and appeasement) with the Palestinians–Netanyahu isn’t the tough guy or right-winger the media and those on the right would have you believe.
He’s done zilch on the immigration problem. He’s released thousands of Palestinian terrorist murderers from prison. He openly supports a Palestinian state on his borders, when there are three–the Palestinian Authority in Israel’s “West Bank,” HAMASastan in Gaza, and the growing time-bomb from within Israel. His “wars” against HAMAS in Gaza are a waste of time and lives because he won’t destroy them completely, and they simply rebuild with his government’s tacit acquiescence and even cooperation. He’s expanded Israeli government. And the only thing he’s contracted is Jewish settlements and developments. Netanyahu has spent his most recent and current career as Israeli PM taking Jewish land, restricting and shrinking Jewish rights in Jerusalem, and making sundry other moves against Jews and in favor of Jew-hating Palestinian Muslims–to little media coverage in the West because it doesn’t fit the narrative of Big Bad Israel oppressing the Palestinians. Israel is less secure today than it ever has been, just like another country I know ABout: ours. America. Just like the rest of the West.
Netanyahu’s speech should be, “Do as I say, not as I do.” Don’t trade terrorists for American military and civilian hostages. Don’t allow your borders to be open and create a giant welfare state for illegal aliens. Don’t bend your culture to assimilate to Islam’s 14th Century backwards way. But it won’t be. Instead, he gets to play the tough guy on Iran. And, by proxy, John Boehner gets to pretend he’s tough on something, anything. Even though he isn’t. And Barack Obama gets to play to his fellow anti-Israel lefties in the Democratic Party.
They all get to play a part and pretend. Even though none of them–except Obama, the most anti-Israel and Islamo-pandering President ever–are really this way in real life.
That’s wrestlin’. It’s all fake. But it sure looks exciting.
Excellent
Phil Lipofsky on March 3, 2015 at 9:09 am