Friday, July 16, 2010

Netanyahu caught on tape: "American foreign policy easy to maneuver"

Netanyahu in 2001.

"A newly revealed tape of Netanyahu in 2001, being interviewed while he thinks the cameras are off, shows him in a radically different light. In it, Netanyahu dismisses American foreign policy as easy to maneuver, boasts of having derailed the Oslo accords with political trickery, and suggests that the only way to deal with the Palestinians is to “beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable” (all translations are mine).

According to Haaretz’s Gideon Levy, the video should be “Banned for viewing by children so as not to corrupt them, and distributed around the country and the world so that everyone will know who leads the government of Israel.”

I know what America is,” Netanyahu replied. “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.” He then called former president Bill Clinton “radically pro-Palestinian,” and went on to belittle the Oslo peace accords as vulnerable to manipulation. Since the accords state that Israel would be allowed to hang on to pre-defined military zones in the West Bank, Netanyahu told his hosts that he could torpedo the accords by defining vast swaths of land as just that."

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4 comments:

  1.   President Obama had better wake up and school this slimeball. 

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  2. BTW, this had already made it to the Huffington Post, Mondo's and Silverstein's blog. What chances are there of seeing it on the MSM? It really should be big..

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  3. <span>Obama had better wake up and school this slimeball</span>

    It's the other way around the way it works..Sadly..

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  4. I don't see it anywhere on the MSM. I am not surprised.

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