Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Commentary on Netanyahu's speech before Congress

Alan Caruba

"In 1933, approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, representing 1.7% of the total European population which, in turn, was about 60% of the Jewish world population, estimated to have been 15.2 million.

"By 1945, in the wake of the Holocaust, two out of every three Jews would be dead.

"By 2012 the global Jewish population by had reached 13.75 million. That is less than 0.2 percent of the world’s population.

"The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in Israel. Sharing Israel as their home were 1,636,600 Arabs and a diverse population of Christians and non-Jews, numbering around 318,000.

"If the Iranians make good on their threat to “wipe Israel off the map”, presumably with nuclear weapons they would acquire by stealth and deception, the Jewish world population would be cut nearly in half." . . .


Michael Ramirez Cartoon
How radical and extreme is Obama?  "In a shocking op-ed by the editor-in-chief of the fiercely anti-Israel paper, al-Arabiya, Faisal Abbas admits that Netanyahu is right, Iran must be dealt with. Obama is out-radicalizing the radicals." . . .

Netanyahu exposes madness of a bad deal with Iran in speech to Congress  "Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world what strong diplomatic leadership looks like in facing the threat of a nuclear Iran.  It was a historic speech, and Netanyahu used the opportunity to make the case that the alterative to the deal under negotiation is not “no deal,” it is “a better deal.”

Pelosi Exits Chamber Before Netanyahu  "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made her lack of enthusiasm for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech apparent throughout the remarks, applauding half-heartedly and then quickly exiting the chamber after the speech, before Netanyahu did.' . . .

Dennis Prager; Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu    "There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people are aware of: Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

Political Cartoons by Nate Beeler



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