Saturday, May 21, 2011

Bibi Bitch-Slaps The 'Bama

Republicans in Congress, as well as anyone considering a run against President Obama in 2012, could take a lesson from Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on how to take a stand against an arrogant, pompous, politician, whose only concern is his perceived messianic legacy.

In a White House meeting a day after Obama jettisoned years of pro-Israeli American policy while basking in the rapture of his “Arab Spring” initiative, Netanyahu not only failed to kiss the ring of the Anointed One, but went on to figuratively crown the president with a dunce cap and provide him with a lecture of the real world, devoid of political correctness, moral equivalency pap, and the failed exercise of appeasement philosophy.

Obama had called for a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders and a resettlement of “Palestinian refugees” back into Israel, two objectives that would essentially undermine the fragile security that Israel maintains today. Netanyahu rejected both proposals emphatically, saying “…... For there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities -- the first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace it cannot go back to the 1967 lines, because these lines are indefensible." He went on to say that the return of the so-called refugees was also a non-starter and would not be on the table for any negotiations, explaining to Obama that this solution was “not going to happen, everyone knows it’s not going to happen...”

Netanyahu clearly understands that he is responsible for the security, for the very continued existence of his people, and unlike the posturing and pandering practiced by Obama, he must deal with the facts, lay the truth on the line and make the tough choices for the good of Israel. As he said in his closing remarks to the president, “We don’t have a lot of margin for error. History will not give the Jewish people another chance.” Clear, unambiguous words from a statesman living in the real world. Words delivered not in a speech to a room of supporters – not words read from a teleprompter – just words spoken from the heart, words of conviction, delivered to the President of the United States eye to eye, mano a mano, sitting just feet apart, for all the world to see.

Congress seems incapable of such straightforward talk. The Republican establishment certainly has no stomach for this kind of hardball politics, and unfortunately we no longer have Ronald Reagan to lead our cause.

America could use a Bibi Netanyahu today. We need a statesman with strength and convictions, unencumbered by the restraints of political correctness, a believer in America’s founding principles, and courageous enough to bitch-slap The ‘Bama on the world stage.

Nico