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I was in the House gallery when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a logical and compelling critique of the deal now on the table regarding Iran’s ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons. He laid out a new fact-based proposal that has shifted the burden of persuasion to the White House.
His new proposal is that “If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.” His argument is that without such a precondition, the 10-year sunset provision paves, rather than blocks, the way to an Iranian nuclear arsenal, even if Iran were to continue to export terrorism, to bully nations in the region and to call for the extermination of Israel.
With logic that seems unassailable, Netanyahu has said that the alternative to this bad deal is not war, but rather “a better deal that Israel and its neighbors might not like, but which we could live with, literally.” Netanyahu then outlined his condition for a better deal: namely that before the sun is allowed to set on prohibiting Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the mullahs must first meet three conditions: stop exporting terrorism, stop intruding in the affairs of other countries, and stop threatening the existence of Israel.
If the mullahs reject these three reasonable conditions, it will demonstrate that they have no real interest in joining the international community and abiding by its rules. If they accept these conditions, then the sunset provision will not kick in automatically but will require that Iran demonstrate a willingness to play by the rules, before the rules allow it to develop nuclear weapons.
Instead of attacking the messenger, as the White House has done, the administration now has an obligation to engage with Netanyahu in the marketplace of ideas, rather than in a cacophony of name-calling, and to respond to Netanyahu’s argument on its merit. There may be persuasive responses, but we have not yet heard them.
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Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)If Netanyahu wants to bomb Iran, that's his choice.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)I saw him on the nooze...and he's a lying scumbag!
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Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet
http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971
Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet
Nick Bryant (author of the Franklin Scandal)
1/22/15 2:55pm Thursday 2:55pm
Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages"—sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse—turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.
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Epstein's predatory past, and his now-inconvenient relationships with a Who's Who of the Davos set, hit the front pages again earlier this month when one of his victims, Virginia Roberts, claimed in a federal court filing that Epstein recruited her as a "sex slave" at the age of 15 and "sexually trafficked to politically-connected and financially-powerful people," including Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz. (The latter, the filing claimed, had sex with the victim "on private planes"; Dershowitz vigorously denies the charges, as does Prince Andrew.)
Two female associates of Epstein—the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen—have been repeatedly accused in court filings of acting as pimps for him, recruiting and grooming young girls into their network of child sex workers, and frequently participating in sex acts with them. Kellen in particular was believed by detectives in the Palm Beach Police Department, which was the first to start unraveling the operation, to be so deeply involved in the enterprise that they prepared a warrant for her arrest as an accessory to molestation and sex with minors. In the end, she was never arrested or charged, and federal prosecutors granted her immunity in a 2007 non-prosecution agreement that described her as a "potential co-conspirator" in sex trafficking.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)as little infants bawling because President Obama isn't playing their game they way they wanted.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Netanyahu says we should walk away from negotiations and we're guaranteed to get a good deal... eventually. Iran, the country he says is run by violent maniacs, will cave and give us everything Israel wants, just short of dismantling their own government.
The pedophile Dershowitz can fuck off
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)tools for Netanyahu.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)For a sit down to work out a deal.
That would be a heck of a response.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)for 'torture warrants.'
spanone
(135,844 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)is to tell him to fuck off, get on his plane and go home.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Netanyahu. What puffed up self-importance.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I. Don't. Think. So. 
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Run for president, win, and then you can conduct foreign policy to your black little heart's content. This "must respond" nonsense is nonsense. Netanyahu has been crying wolf about Iran for 20 years, claiming they're just four or five Friedman Units away from developing a nuclear weapon. He's been wrong for 20 years, and he's been thumping the tub for a war between the U.S. and Iran for 20 years. Instead of addressing the problem himself, he wants proxies to do his dirty work for him, preferring the people he makes war against to be dirt poor and largely helpless.
FSogol
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