BEN & BARRY.....THEN and NOW

[Raya @ REAL CONSERVATIVES]

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

Netanyahu's rules of debate

It isn’t just the top picture above that shows which one of the two men has the real-stuff of leadership,

and which one is an arrogant empty suit. 

Read the article at bottom to find out how a real-world, experienced leader performs mano a mano when confronting a community-organizer-punk; then go back to the picture and figure out who’s who.  Hint: It isn’t difficult.

 

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Netanyahu's rules of debate [May 22, 2011]

If it had been a fight, they would have stopped it.

Friday's showdown between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't close, and it wasn't pretty -- though Netanyahu didn't want to leave any obvious marks. The end result was that our president is suddenly aware that Chicago rules don't work on tough-minded leaders of countries surrounded by terrorists.

The battle between the warrior and the academic was bound to turn out this way. President Obama was a community organizer once. Netanyahu was commander of the Israeli Defense Forces' elite special forces unit, Sayeret Matkal. Faculty meetings can get rough, but not as rough as the hostage rescue mission to free Sabena Flight 571.

So the president's absurd declaration about 1967 borders is off the table. In fact, the table is gone. Israel can wait out the 20 months left to Obama's presidency, or even 48 months if American voters insanely choose to experiment with epic incompetence at the top for another term. Israel isn't going back to the Auschwitz borders, and only a naive and inexperienced academic would think that Thursday's speech would do other than worsen prospects for a negotiated settlement.
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Netanyahu showed a worldwide audience that purposefulness can be as polite as it is pointed, and that Obama has a glass jaw. A clenched glass jaw, but a glass jaw nonetheless.

Israel isn't going back to the 1967 borders. Hamas cannot be a partner in peace negotiations. And Israel is a friend and a valued ally, not a lap dog. The president would do well to figure out that our country prefers Netanyahu's approach to his. Even the president's own party does. REF

jerry

 

 

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     Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house or an extra room in Israel than with a Muslim building a nuclear bomb in Iran

[valerie eggers]

WOW!!!

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

What a success! What a failure.

[Darlene Littlejohn]

GREAT - Thank You!