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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:51:39 PM
Israeli PM Netanyahu attacks Gen. Dempsey as Servant of Iran
Posted on 02/21/2012 by Juan
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have launched a vicious attack on US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, an American war hero, saying his recent statements “served Iran.” They objected to his statement on Sunday, on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, .. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/17/watch-gps-martin-dempsey-on-syria-iran-and-china/ .. that
“I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran…”
He also said such a strike “would be destabilizing” and “not prudent.” He added,
“…we are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor. And it’s for that reason, I think, that we think the current path we’re on is the most prudent path at this point.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who in the past has called for expulsion of Palestinians from their West Bank home and boasted of derailing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, accused Dempsey of “serving Iranian interests,” according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (“The Land”), which wrote:
“We made it clear to Donilon that all those statements and briefings only served the Iranians,” a senior Israeli official said. “The Iranians see there’s controversy between the United States and Israel, and that the Americans object to a military act. That reduces the pressure on them.”
Likely officials of the far right wing Likud Party were especially angered by Dempsey’s assessment that the Iranian leadership is made up of “rational actors.” Israel and its media agents in the United States have expended enormous resources in attempting to convince the US public that the Iranian leadership is made up of mad mullahs obsessed with the end of the world who would gleefully light the nuclear match that brought about an apocalypse. (All this completely untrue and mere racist pablum.) To have the top military man in the United States undo the work of millions of dollars worth of propaganda must have been galling indeed.
Netanyahu’s charge that Dempsey is “serving Iran” is completely unacceptable and deserves a stern rebuke from the Obama administration if it is not going to make itself look like a complete set of wusses.
Dempsey served in the Gulf War and deployed twice to Iraq .. http://www.jcs.mil/biography.aspx?ID=135 .. during the Iraq War. “General Dempsey’s awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star with “V” Device and Oak Leaf Cluster, the Combat Action Badge, and the Parachutist Badge.”
If it is the fact, as the Israeli right wing kept loudly insisting, that Saddam Hussein was a dire threat to Israel, then they might show a little gratitude and respect to a man like Dempsey, who deployed to Iraq to take down that regime and build a new one.
It is not OK that Netanyahu and Barak spoke this way about this man.
Why Barack Obama continually lets Netanyahu humiliate him is completely beyond my understanding. He should call off the March 5 meeting now planned with Netanyahu and let him cool his heels till he apologizes.
And, I’ll bet you that the supposedly super-patriotic Republican candidates won’t dare so much as say “boo” to Tel Aviv over this insult to Dempsey– in fact, the chicken hawks are likely to pile on him on behalf of their Christian and Jewish Zionist donors.
Israel receives on the order of $3 billion a year from US taxpayers, .. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000623507&fid=1725 .. roughly on average $1000 a person in the last few decades that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has dragooned us all into paying into Netanyahu’s coffers. It includes civilian aid. This, despite Israel’s status as a middle income country better off than a lot of European states. If we count indirect US support for Israel, including trade concessions, the sum is much greater. And if we count US military costs policing the Middle East to keep it safe for Netanyahu, the price would skyrocket. Israel is the biggest recipient of American foreign aid. It has never been clear to anyone over here what exactly we get in return for that.
All that fancy military equipment Israel is brandishing at Iran and threatening to use to shanghai American servicemen into military engagement with that country? We paid for it.
It is, of course, Netanyahu who serves the purposes of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His saber rattling has gotten Iranians’ back up and killed what was left of the protest movement. Iranians are very nationalistic and won’t risk a division in their ranks .. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122208387572989.html .. when they are under the gun from an outside power.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/israeli-pm-netanyahu-attacks-gen-dempsey-as-servant-of-iran.html
See also:
The drums of war are heard again in Israel
by Ilan Pappe on December 26, 2010
The drums of war are heard again in Israel and they are sounded because once more Israel's invincibility in is question.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58131542
Israeli settlers attack Israeli activists & journalists; 19 injured, 3 hospitalized
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67755296
Israel approves new settler homes in East Jerusalem
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67489421
poster44ny -- re "living on your own land" -- (linked in)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58323162
and preceding and following
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67519399
US steps up pressure on Palestinians to drop UN statehood bid
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67101234
Israel government 'reckless and irresponsible' says ex-Mossad chief .. Meir Dagan attacks Binyamin
Netanyahu for aggression towards Iran, and for failing to make any progress with the Palestinians
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63890570
Let’s counter the mythology that Iran wants nukes and would strike Israel if it had them
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58705990
Introducing The Palestine Papers
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59089657
The "napkin map" revealed [...]
The Palestinian Authority proposed an unprecedented land swap to the Israeli government,
offering to annex virtually all of the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.
Not only did the Israeli government offer no concessions in return, but – as The Palestine Papers now reveal – it responded with an even more aggressive land swap: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert wanted to annex more than 10% of the West Bank (including the major settlements in Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel and elsewhere), in exchange for sparsely-populated farmland along the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59091331
Netanyahu’s catastrophic leadership
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63433014
Timeline: Palestine-Israel conflict
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59090586
OK what has Obama done? Nothing. - Obama's Accomplishments
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61140010
AHA! GOT ONE! THE MAPS
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56709555
the rest were pickups during a search for the picture proof of undeniable injustice by Israel toward the Palestinians.
Posted on 02/21/2012 by Juan
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have launched a vicious attack on US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, an American war hero, saying his recent statements “served Iran.” They objected to his statement on Sunday, on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, .. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/17/watch-gps-martin-dempsey-on-syria-iran-and-china/ .. that
“I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran…”
He also said such a strike “would be destabilizing” and “not prudent.” He added,
“…we are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor. And it’s for that reason, I think, that we think the current path we’re on is the most prudent path at this point.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who in the past has called for expulsion of Palestinians from their West Bank home and boasted of derailing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, accused Dempsey of “serving Iranian interests,” according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (“The Land”), which wrote:
“We made it clear to Donilon that all those statements and briefings only served the Iranians,” a senior Israeli official said. “The Iranians see there’s controversy between the United States and Israel, and that the Americans object to a military act. That reduces the pressure on them.”
Likely officials of the far right wing Likud Party were especially angered by Dempsey’s assessment that the Iranian leadership is made up of “rational actors.” Israel and its media agents in the United States have expended enormous resources in attempting to convince the US public that the Iranian leadership is made up of mad mullahs obsessed with the end of the world who would gleefully light the nuclear match that brought about an apocalypse. (All this completely untrue and mere racist pablum.) To have the top military man in the United States undo the work of millions of dollars worth of propaganda must have been galling indeed.
Netanyahu’s charge that Dempsey is “serving Iran” is completely unacceptable and deserves a stern rebuke from the Obama administration if it is not going to make itself look like a complete set of wusses.
Dempsey served in the Gulf War and deployed twice to Iraq .. http://www.jcs.mil/biography.aspx?ID=135 .. during the Iraq War. “General Dempsey’s awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star with “V” Device and Oak Leaf Cluster, the Combat Action Badge, and the Parachutist Badge.”
If it is the fact, as the Israeli right wing kept loudly insisting, that Saddam Hussein was a dire threat to Israel, then they might show a little gratitude and respect to a man like Dempsey, who deployed to Iraq to take down that regime and build a new one.
It is not OK that Netanyahu and Barak spoke this way about this man.
Why Barack Obama continually lets Netanyahu humiliate him is completely beyond my understanding. He should call off the March 5 meeting now planned with Netanyahu and let him cool his heels till he apologizes.
And, I’ll bet you that the supposedly super-patriotic Republican candidates won’t dare so much as say “boo” to Tel Aviv over this insult to Dempsey– in fact, the chicken hawks are likely to pile on him on behalf of their Christian and Jewish Zionist donors.
Israel receives on the order of $3 billion a year from US taxpayers, .. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000623507&fid=1725 .. roughly on average $1000 a person in the last few decades that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has dragooned us all into paying into Netanyahu’s coffers. It includes civilian aid. This, despite Israel’s status as a middle income country better off than a lot of European states. If we count indirect US support for Israel, including trade concessions, the sum is much greater. And if we count US military costs policing the Middle East to keep it safe for Netanyahu, the price would skyrocket. Israel is the biggest recipient of American foreign aid. It has never been clear to anyone over here what exactly we get in return for that.
All that fancy military equipment Israel is brandishing at Iran and threatening to use to shanghai American servicemen into military engagement with that country? We paid for it.
It is, of course, Netanyahu who serves the purposes of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His saber rattling has gotten Iranians’ back up and killed what was left of the protest movement. Iranians are very nationalistic and won’t risk a division in their ranks .. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122208387572989.html .. when they are under the gun from an outside power.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/israeli-pm-netanyahu-attacks-gen-dempsey-as-servant-of-iran.html
See also:
The drums of war are heard again in Israel
by Ilan Pappe on December 26, 2010
The drums of war are heard again in Israel and they are sounded because once more Israel's invincibility in is question.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58131542
Israeli settlers attack Israeli activists & journalists; 19 injured, 3 hospitalized
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67755296
Israel approves new settler homes in East Jerusalem
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67489421
poster44ny -- re "living on your own land" -- (linked in)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58323162
and preceding and following
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67519399
US steps up pressure on Palestinians to drop UN statehood bid
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67101234
Israel government 'reckless and irresponsible' says ex-Mossad chief .. Meir Dagan attacks Binyamin
Netanyahu for aggression towards Iran, and for failing to make any progress with the Palestinians
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63890570
Let’s counter the mythology that Iran wants nukes and would strike Israel if it had them
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58705990
Introducing The Palestine Papers
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59089657
The "napkin map" revealed [...]
The Palestinian Authority proposed an unprecedented land swap to the Israeli government,
offering to annex virtually all of the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.
Not only did the Israeli government offer no concessions in return, but – as The Palestine Papers now reveal – it responded with an even more aggressive land swap: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert wanted to annex more than 10% of the West Bank (including the major settlements in Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel and elsewhere), in exchange for sparsely-populated farmland along the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59091331
Netanyahu’s catastrophic leadership
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63433014
Timeline: Palestine-Israel conflict
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59090586
OK what has Obama done? Nothing. - Obama's Accomplishments
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61140010
AHA! GOT ONE! THE MAPS
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56709555
the rest were pickups during a search for the picture proof of undeniable injustice by Israel toward the Palestinians.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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