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Guest column by Tom Are-March 6, 2015

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015
How Can He Keep a Straight Face?
September 2, 2002, a year and a day after the 9/11 attack, Benjamin Netanyahu
stood before our congress and said, There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is
seeking and working and advancing toward the development of nuclear weapons
no question whatsoever. Saddam is hell bent upon achieving atomic bomb
capabilities as soon as he can. I believe that even free and unfettered inspections will
not uncover these portable manufacturing sites of mass destruction
Representative Dan Burton summarized, Your statement boils down to one thing,
that is, do we react to another attack on America after hundreds of thousands or
millions of lives have been lost or do we preempt that kind of action from happening

in the first place?

Rachel Maddow says, Which is what we did. We preempted. We invaded Iraq and
none of the things said about Saddam Hussein turned out to be true.
In 2002 congress invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak as an expert witness, an
expert on why the US had to start a preemptive war against Saddam Hussein and
Iraq, or, as he explained, it would be the end of the world. That was 2002.
Now, in 2015, house republicans invited him back to make a case again about the
end of the world.
This time though, he sees it coming from Iran. That deal will not prevent Iran from
developing nuclear weapons. It would almost guarantee that Iran gets those
weapons. Iran could have the means to deliver that nuclear arsenal to the far
corners of the earth including every part of the United States.
The Middle East would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear trip wires, a region where
small skirmishes can trigger big wars, would turn into a nuclear tinder box, would
face a much more dangerous Iran. The Middle East littered with nuclear bombs in a
count down to a potential nuclear nightmare.[1]
While our congress pledges allegiance to the head of another state, those of us who
are less intimidated by AIPAC wonder how he can keep a straight face. He screams
bloody murder because Iran could someday get a nuclear weapon while all along
knowing Israel built nuclear bombs, has refused to become a party to the Treaty of
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and has never opened its sites to inspectors.
Netanyahu brags that for the first time in history, Israel has the means of defending
itself. What he means is that for the first time in history, Israel has the power to
annihilate other people.
John F. Kennedy said that Israel with a bomb would initiate a nuclear arms race in the
Middle East. So, Israel lied to the whole world about it, including the United States,.
According to non-Israeli sources, simulated control rooms were built, the entrances
to underground levels were bricked up, and pigeon droppings were scattered around

some buildings in which the forbidden installations were housed to give the
impression that they were not in use.[2]
No wonder Netanyahu is panicked. For its whole life, modern Israel has been the
bully of its neighborhood. But its hegemony in the Middle East is coming to an end
and he knows it. Sooner or later, a hostile nation will get the bomb. Then another.
Israel pressured our Congress into destroying Iraq. Now, twelve years later, wearing
his paranoia like a badge of honor, Netanyahu demands that the US go to war with
Iran. And our congress applauded.
With a straight face, Netanyahu said, We need to stop the aggression in the Middle
East. Then, he referred to the goons in Gaza, the lackeys in Lebanon and the
revolutionary guards on the Golan Heights as, clutching Israel with tentacles of
terror. Does he think that anyone with even the intelligence of congress would not
recognize Gaza, Lebanon and the Golan Heights as three lands Israel illegally invaded
in its program of expansion?
It is amazing that he would even mention Gaza. Eight years of siege and three
bombardments in six years has left Gaza destitute. Last summer, Israel dropped 800
tons of explosives, including phosphorous cluster bombs on 750 locations, killing
2,100 people, mostly civilians including 500 children. Israel destroyed 18,000 homes
in Gaza, leaving 24,000 displaced, deliberately targeted hospitals, schools, and old
age nursing homes. When winter came, Netanyahu cut off electricity and blockaded
fuel. As he spoke to our congress, children were still sick and without medical care.
Some have frozen to death. Yet, Netanyahu portrays Israel as the victim, and he does
it with a straight face.
Palestinians are the occupied. Israel is the occupier. An occupier does not defend
itself against an occupied population. The occupier controls the power structure. The
occupier is the dominant force militarily and economically. The occupier determines
what goes in and what comes out of the territories it occupies. Even under
international law, an occupier must provide security for the people it occupies. Yet,
we consistently hear about Israels need to ensure its security.[3]

Netanyahu said that we must, stop Irans conquest, subjugation and terror. And he
said it with a straight face. Then he adds, if Iran wants to be treated like a normal
country, then let it act like a normal country. Was he looking in a mirror?
Under Netanyahus leadership, the Israeli government has ramped up illegal
settlement buildings, increasing the population of Jewish settlers by over 23%, made
the biggest land grab in a generation, committed countless human rights abuses and
killed thousands of citizens in the West Bank and Gaza, and done everything possible
to maintain the status quo of Israeli occupation and domination.[4]
Its time for those of us who yearn for a peaceful world to say with a straight face to
Netanyahu and Israel, If Israel wants to be treated like a normal country, then let it
act like a normal country.
Thomas Are
March 6, 2015
[1] Both of these quotes, 2002 and 2015 are a matter of public record. I lifted them
from the Rachel Maddow, Program March 3, 2015..
[2] Ari Shavit, My Promised Land, (Spiegel and Grau, New York, 2013) p. 186
[3] Deanna Othman, Sawyer Blunder indicative of Noxious Bias against Palestinians
in American Journalism, Huffington Post. July 11, 2014
[4] Philip Weiss, State Dept says Netanyahu Speech is not inappropriate,
disrespectful, humiliating or embarrassing., Mondoweiss, January 28, 2015
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015
Cant Have it Both Ways
Even Bibi cant have it both ways. On the one hand, he appeals to Jews all over the
world, especially Europe, saying come to Israel, it is the only place on the globe
where a Jew can be safe.
Then, he turns around and addresses our US congress declaring that Israel and all its
citizens are on the verge of being wiped off the face of the earth by Iran. For two
decades now, Netanyahu has declared Iran about one year from getting the bomb,

which will immediately be dropped on Israel.

So, is Israel a safe place or not? Even Bibi cant have it both ways.
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