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." . . .

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.

'ATOMIC IRAN' FORETOLD NETANYAHU'S WARNING

WND   "Ten years ago, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., published his first WND bestselling book, “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians,” in which he predicted events unfolding now.

“ 'In 2005, when publishers for whom I had written top-selling books turned down my proposal to write a book warning of the dangers Iran’s nuclear program posed, only Joseph Farah and WND had the foresight and courage to publish a book considered at the time to be enormously controversial,” Corsi said.

“ 'Few people 10 years ago wanted to believe Iran’s nuclear program could be a threat not only to Israel, but to the region and the world.”

"In “Atomic Iran,” Corsi predicted the following:" . . .

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"Corsi wrote of Hitler in describing the hatred the radical Islamic mullahs and their sympathizers in Iran have toward the Jews.

“ 'Hitler revealed in ‘Mein Kampf’ that he intended to commit genocide on the Jews of Germany,” Corsi wrote on pages 40-41. “Many did not take him seriously; the thought was simply too extreme, too mad. Yet he communicated his true intentions, even if only those who knew how to listen to disturbed personalities believed him at the time.

“ 'So, too, the mad mullahs who rule Iran have been clearly telling the world that they intend to use their missiles, and when they have them, their nuclear weapons,” Corsi continued." . . .

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Fallback justification of Obama's Paris 'random' shooting remark destroyed by new evidence

Thomas Lifson  "Barack Obama’s outrageous labeling of the shootings at the Hyper Cacher market in Paris as “random” caused Josh Earnest and other administration flaks to come up with a rationale that was ridiculous at the time. But now, release of tapes from the slaughter makes the justification look ridiculous.

"Obama told Vox.com that “you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris," sparking outrage over the denial of the obvious – that Jews were targeted because they were Jews. When pressed at a press briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest fell back on some linguistic fast-footwork:

"The adverb that the president chose was used to indicate that the individuals who were killed in that terrible, tragic incident were killed not because of who they were but because of where they randomly happened to be."

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