Netanyahu: Israel Will Not ‘Abandon Our Fate’ To U.S. Strategic Interests

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

AFP – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel cannot rely on any other country, even an ally, when it comes to facing up to the perceived nuclear threat from Iran.

“We appreciate the efforts of the international community to halt Iran’s nuclear programme,” Netanyahu said in a speech on the eve of Holocaust Day.

“But at no stage will we abandon our fate into the hands of other countries, even our best friends,” he said, in an apparent reference to the United States whose Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Israel on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/07/netanyahu-israel-will-not-abandon-our-fate-to-u-s-strategic-interests/

[Ash_F]

1. So he has no problem with alienating his last ally?

Sounds like that's what he is saying.

[magic59]

2. Go ahead, make my day

and put them billions of $$$$ we send you to use. I don't mind paying $10 for a gal of gas.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Knock yourselves out.

[azurnoir]

4. Interesting he wasn't talking that stuff when Obama was there a couple of weeks ago

why'd he wait till it was Kerry?

[Malik Agar]

5. How fast would a politician be condemned if the reverse was said?

The United States will not "abandon our fate" to Israeli strategic (special) interests.

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. +1000

[Scootaloo]

7. Ask Chuck Hagel

Or for that matter, Barack Obama. He got fucking roasted for daring suggest our policy shouldn't be surgically grafted to Israel's.

[John2]

8. So why does

Netanyahu think the same logic does not apply to his enemies? The whole scenario is hypocritical. on one hand, your country steal technology for nuclear weapons to gain an advantage while you thank the very allies that allowed you to. Everyone of these countries are guilty. There is no desire by none of them to reduce nuclear weapons but a desire to gain an edge. They all use human rights for cover to gain moral justification too. None of these countries will hesitate to use weapons of mass destruction to commit genocide on innocent populations. There is not one country stand on moral grounds period to justify it. Israel can start a War all they want, but it want be justified. The only way they can defeat a large country like Iran is to use weapons of mass destruction.

[GeoWilliam750]

9. Maybe it is just my misperception

But it seems that every time the price of Brent crude falls to a relatively low level, the rhetoric seems to heat back up.

Sometimes I just wonder.

[bemildred]

10. That's a hell of an accusation. nt