Netanyahu Repudiates Obama In Front of Full Congress

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Full video at the Right Scoop. And the transcript, too.

Here are some choice quotes. Worth reading in full, or watching in full, but here are, I think, the best parts. And this is long. Well, there were a lot of good parts.

Bonus: 29 ovations, more than Bammy at his SOTU.

One of his biggest applause lines was aimed directly at President Obama.“Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967,” Netanyahu said, prompting a big standing ovation.

Later he added: “Israel on the 1967 lines would be only 9 miles wide. So much for defensible borders.”

Bammy got 25 ovations. And nine of Bammy’s “ovations” were just Joe Biden jumping around like a monkey every time the words “high speed trains” were mentioned, so I don’t know if they count.

Israel fully supports the desire of Arab peoples in our region to live freely. We long for the day when Israel will be one of many real democracies in the Middle East. Fifteen years ago, I stood at this very podium, and said that democracy must start to take root in the Arab World. Well, it’s begun to take root. This beginning holds the promise of a brilliant future of peace and prosperity. For I believe that a Middle East that is genuinely democratic will be a Middle East truly at peace.But while we hope and work for the best, we must also recognize that powerful forces oppose this future.They oppose modernity. They oppose democracy. They oppose peace. Foremost among these forces is Iran. The tyranny in Tehran brutalizes its own people. It supports attacks against American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It subjugates Lebanon and Gaza. It sponsors terror worldwide.

Now the threat to my country cannot be overstated. Those who dismiss it are sticking their heads in the sand. Less than seven decades after six million Jews were murdered, Iran’s leaders deny the Holocaust of the Jewish people, while calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state.

I am willing to make painful compromises to achieve this historic peace. As the leader of Israel, it is my responsibility to lead my people to peace. This is not easy for me. I recognize that in a genuine peace, we will be required to give up parts of the Jewish homeland. In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We are not the British in India. We are not the Belgians in the Congo.

So now here is the question. You have to ask it. If the benefits of peace with the Palestinians are so clear, why has peace eluded us? Because all six Israeli Prime Ministers since the signing of Oslo accords agreed to establish a Palestinian state. Myself included. So why has peace not been achieved? Because so far, the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept a Palestinian state, if it meant accepting a Jewish state alongside it.

You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state. This is what this conflict is about. In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews said yes. The Palestinians said no. In recent years, the Palestinians twice refused generous offers by Israeli Prime Ministers, to establish a Palestinian state on virtually all the territory won by Israel in the Six Day War.

They were simply unwilling to end the conflict. And I regret to say this: They continue to educate their children to hate. They continue to name public squares after terrorists. And worst of all, they continue to perpetuate the fantasy that Israel will one day be flooded by the descendants of Palestinian refugees.

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As he should have….

CURT, hi, It’s obvious that he prefer to take the side of the brotherhood, he even want them to be elected next election with him, he find that would help the people to be more secure here, I guess they warn him to produce on their agenda or get his election funds cut out, so he went after ISRAEL and then on speechs about electing them, and told them not to worries about the security of this NATION,
BECAUSE he will dismantle it, open borders and no security,
I wander what pills he take
bye thank you for the POST

Go Bibi! Obama thought he could embarass Netanyahu by sandbagging him over this 1967 boundaries proposal. So much for that plan! Obama is out of his depth and this dust up w/Netanyahu makes it clear to all who have eyes to see.