of the Middle East. Especially when the Israeli solution is to steal land from its neighbors and rely on the US to shield Israel from any action by the UN or the World Court.

Either Netanyahu is blind to what he is doing, or he hopes that the world is blind to what he is doing.

Seems to me that Egypt and Israel were able to make an alliance. Alliances based on fear instead of respect only last as long as a country has the biggest stick. When the other countries sense weakness, they will attack.

Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades and have yet to make alliances with that overwhelming military advantage. Netanyahu is a moron.

doesn't exist.

He's so accustomed to lying, he's forgotten the line separating his lies and reality.

Israel is unlikely to ever be more then a regional power

Baby Netanyahu needs a good spanking!

I am SO disgusted with this man and those that pound his pots and pans behind him. He has been wrong about everything so far related to the wars and civil wars in the Middle East; and now he wants MORE power? Go to hell! Straight to hell.

It is really past time the USA lengthens the rope and either lets them work things out with their regional neighbor, or they sink under their own evil weight.

Perhaps you can find another country to finance your ambitions.

It is often difficult to tell what DU headlines are about. Thankfully we have our iNews 5000 WiFi Headline Translator to sort things out. Let's fire it up and feed it a headline.

Netanyanhu: Israel Must Become World Power.

Spring, Sprong, Bing, Bong, Boingggg, DING!

Translation: Netanyahu Declares Himself a World Power.

Like about 95 of them:

1 China[Note 2] 1,372,250,000 September 24, 2015 18.9% Official population clock
2 India 1,277,580,000 September 24, 2015 17.6% Official population clock
3 United States[Note 3] 321,887,000 September 24, 2015 4.43% Official population clock
4 Indonesia 255,780,000 July 1, 2015 3.52% Official projection
5 Brazil 204,945,000 September 24, 2015 2.82% Official population clock
6 Pakistan 190,595,000 July 1, 2015 2.62% Official population clock
7 Nigeria 182,202,000 July 1, 2015 2.51% UN projection
8 Bangladesh 159,078,000 September 24, 2015 2.19% Official population clock
9 Russia[Note 4] 146,594,130 September 24, 2015 2.02% Official population clock
10 Japan 126,832,000 September 1, 2015 1.74% Monthly official estimate
11 Mexico 125,280,000 July 1, 2015 1.72% Official projection
12 Philippines 102,098,100 September 24, 2015 1.4% Official population clock
13 Ethiopia 98,981,000 July 1, 2015 1.36% Official Projection
14 Vietnam 93,448,000 July 1, 2015 1.28% Official Projection
15 Egypt 89,548,400 September 24, 2015 1.23% Official population clock
16 Germany 81,197,500 December 31, 2014 1.12% Official estimate
17 Iran 78,660,800 September 24, 2015 1.08% Official population clock
18 Turkey 77,695,000 December 31, 2014 1.07% Annual official estimate
19 Democratic Republic of the Congo 77,434,000 July 1, 2015 1.06% UN projection
20 France[Note 5] 67,063,000 August 1, 2015 0.91% Monthly official estimate
21 Thailand 65,104,000 July 1, 2015 0.9% Official annual projection
22 United Kingdom 64,800,000 July 1, 2015 0.89% Annual official estimate
23 Italy 60,725,000 April 30, 2015 0.84% Monthly official estimate
24 South Africa 54,956,900 July 1, 2015 0.76% Annual official estimate
25 Myanmar 53,897,000 July 1, 2015 0.74% UN projection
26 Tanzania 53,470,000 July 1, 2015 0.74% UN projection
27 South Korea 51,465,228 August 1, 2015 0.71% Monthly official estimate
28 Colombia 48,318,900 September 24, 2015 0.664% Official population clock
29 Spain 46,439,864 January 1, 2015 0.64% Official estimate
30 Kenya 46,050,000 July 1, 2015 0.63% UN projection
31 Argentina 43,131,966 July 1, 2015 0.59% Official annual projection
32 Ukraine[Note 6] 42,813,557 August 1, 2015 0.59% Monthly official estimate
33 Algeria 39,500,000 January 1, 2015 0.54% Official annual projection
34 Poland 38,484,000 December 31, 2014 0.53% Official estimate
35 Sudan 38,435,252 July 1, 2015 0.53% Official annual projection
36 Iraq 36,004,552 July 1, 2014 0.5% Official annual projection
37 Canada 35,749,600 April 1, 2015 0.49% Official estimate
38 Uganda 34,856,813 August 28, 2014 0.48% Preliminary 2014 census result
39 Morocco[Note 7] 33,337,529 September 1, 2014 0.46% Preliminary 2014 census result
40 Saudi Arabia 31,521,418 July 1, 2015 0.43% Official annual projection
41 Peru 31,151,643 July 1, 2015 0.43% Official annual projection
42 Uzbekistan 31,022,500 January 1, 2015 0.43% Official estimate
43 Malaysia 30,715,000 September 24, 2015 0.422% Official population clock
44 Venezuela 30,620,404 July 1, 2015 0.42% Official annual projection
45 Nepal 28,037,904 July 1, 2015 0.39% Official annual projection
46 Ghana 27,043,093 July 1, 2014 0.37% Official annual projection
47 Afghanistan 26,023,100 2013-2014 0.36% Official estimate
48 Yemen 25,956,000 July 1, 2014 0.36% Official estimate
49 Mozambique 25,727,911 July 1, 2015 0.35% Annual official projection
50 North Korea 25,155,000 July 1, 2015 0.35% UN projection
51 Angola 24,383,301 May 16, 2014 0.34% Preliminary 2014 census result
52 Australia 23,906,800 September 24, 2015 0.329% Official population clock
53 Taiwan[Note 8] 23,461,708 July 31, 2015 0.32% Monthly official estimate
54 Syria 23,394,201 September 24, 2015 0.32% Official population clock[Note 9]
55 Cameroon 23,344,000 July 1, 2015 0.32% UN projection
56 Ivory Coast 22,671,331 May 15, 2014 0.31% Preliminary 2014 Census Result
57 Madagascar 22,434,363 July 1, 2014 0.31% Annual official estimate
58 Sri Lanka 20,675,000 July 1, 2014 0.28% Official Estimate
59 Romania 19,942,642 January 1, 2014 0.27% Annual official estimate
60 Niger 19,899,000 July 1, 2015 0.27% UN projection
61 Burkina Faso 18,450,494 July 1, 2015 0.25% Official estimate
62 Chile 18,006,407 July 1, 2015 0.25% Official annual projection
63 Mali 17,600,000 July 1, 2015 0.24% UN projection
64 Kazakhstan 17,563,300 August 1, 2015 0.24% Monthly official estimate
65 Netherlands 16,921,100 September 24, 2015 0.233% Official Population Clock
66 Malawi 16,310,431 July 1, 2015 0.22% Official annual projection
67 Guatemala 16,176,133 July 1, 2015 0.22% Official estimate
68 Ecuador 16,027,500 July 1, 2014 0.22% Official estimate
69 Zambia 15,473,905 July 1, 2015 0.21% Official annual projection
70 Cambodia 15,405,157 July 1, 2015 0.21% Official annual projection
71 Chad 14,037,000 July 1, 2015 0.19% UN projection
72 Senegal 13,508,715 November 19, 2013 0.19% 2013 census result
73 Zimbabwe 13,061,239 August 17, 2012 0.18% 2012 Census Result
74 South Sudan 11,892,934 July 1, 2015 0.16% Official annual projection
75 Bolivia 11,410,651 July 1, 2015 0.16% Official projection
76 Rwanda 11,262,564 July 1, 2015 0.15% Annual official estimate
77 Belgium 11,250,659 July 1, 2015 0.15% Monthly official estimate
78 Cuba 11,238,317 December 31, 2014 0.15% Annual official estimate
79 Tunisia 10,982,754 April 23, 2014 0.15% Preliminary 2014 census result
80 Haiti 10,911,819 July 1, 2015 0.15% Official projection
81 Greece 10,846,979 January 1, 2015 0.15% Official estimate
82 Somalia[Note 10] 10,787,000 July 1, 2015 0.15% UN projection
83 Guinea 10,628,972 April 2, 2014 0.15% Preliminary 2014 census result
84 Czech Republic 10,537,818 March 31, 2015 0.14% Official quarterly estimate
85 Dominican Republic 10,528,000 July 1, 2015 0.14% UN projection
86 Portugal 10,374,822 December 31, 2014 0.14% Annual official estimate
87 Benin 10,315,244 July 1, 2015 0.14% Official projection
88 Hungary 9,849,000 December 31, 2014 0.14% Annual official estimate
89 Burundi 9,823,827 July 1, 2015 0.14% Official annual projection
90 Sweden 9,804,082 July 13, 2015 0.13% Monthly official estimate
91 Azerbaijan 9,654,900 August 1, 2015 0.13% Official estimate
92 Belarus 9,485,300 July 1, 2015 0.13% Quarterly official estimate
93 United Arab Emirates 9,157,000 July 1, 2015 0.13% UN projection
94 Honduras 8,725,111 July 1, 2014 0.12% Annual official estimate
95 Austria 8,602,112 April 1, 2015 0.12% Quarterly provisional figure
96 Israel 8,412,000 September 13, 2015 0.12% Official Jewish New Year estimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

For some reason I thought it was much smaller than that.

I was also surprised to learn that Vietnam had a population of 93 million.

Finally, I would not have guessed that Uzbekistan had 31 million people.

You didn't copy all the way down to Ireland, but its population is 4.6 million according to the link. I had thought it was 8 million.

even harder for the state and infrastructure, natch

Here are the numbers from 1970 when I was first interested in geography.

1970 ----- today

Egypt 33.6 million ----- 89.5
Germany 77.8 (both halves) -----81.2
Ethiopia 29.4 ----- 99.0
Israel 2.9 ----- 8.4
Iran 29.0 ----- 78.7
Bangladesh 67 ----- 159.1
China 820.4 -----1,372.3
India 553.0 ----- 1,277.6
Mexico 52.8 ----- 125.3
Nepal 11.9 ----- 28.0
Saudi Arabia 6.1 ----- 31.5
UK 53.6 ----- 64.8
US 203.9 ----- 321.9
Vietnam 42.6 (both halves) ----- 93.4

1/40th of the US.

You don't have a problem with that now?

What changed?

Keep dreaming the dream.

Between my ex and me, one wonderful child, now grown. That's enough! More than enough, when you look at the big picture.

And we're so thrilled to have a few grizzlies and wolves left in the lower 48---these are "successes." Really, there will be no successes until we control our population.

The world power power rhetoric is code talk for Greater Israel, the rightwing Zionist Lebensraum. Netanyahu is just polishing his cred with Israeli fascists.

"In the face of this changing world, Israel must be a power. Not just a regional power, but in some spheres, a world power."

In some spheres, such drone technology, Israel is already a world leader, so the whole quotation isn't as outrageous as the headline version.

Netanyahu was speaking about that or drones when he said "world power".

That phrase is important.

Ingredients, I mean

Basically meat and grain stuffed in an intestine (or sausage casing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishka_(food)

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Kind of like the Jewish version of Scottish Haggis.

Terrible for you, but tastes rather good and is very rich, to say the least.

It is Eastern European.

The hideous way that Israel abuses Palestinians is going to catch up with them.

Israel's interests with the rest of the world.

That power exits only because the US foolishly stands right behind Israel no matter how brutally and cruelly it behaves.

the state of Israel is not brutal and cruel. It's trying to survive. I don't agree with Bibi's BS world power pronouncements or his tactics like building in contested areas. OTOH, I don't see Israelis beheading people and flying commercial jets into buildings in foreign countries. THAT is brutal and cruel.

The US is standing behind Israel b/c 1) the history of Israel as a safe haven for Jews who weren't slaughtered in 1930's-40's Europe and 2) it's a base for US wanting to protect Big Oil. So even if US pols couldn't care less about #1, they do care about #2.

Since according to the US State Department it is anti-Semitic to make comparisons between Israel and WWII Germany I would like to compare Gaza to the Confederate POW camp Andersonville.

Wow.

The comparison that I am making is the both rendered people stateless and therefore without protection or rights. I think the comparison of Israel's treatment of Gaza to the Andersonville POW camp is a valid.

When I look at pictures of Israeli forces using children as human shields, while also seeing them murder very large numbers of civilians, I just can't view their military and leadership as anything but cruel.

Also not sure why you bring up 9/11 and ISIS.

Do you see our military and leadership as anything but cruel?

I wasn't comparing Israeli cruelty to the U.S. in any way.

at least they have Israel's backing. Where did the Israelis, except for perhaps a few individuals, object to anything our military did in the Middle East? They'd probably prefer it is were were even more of a presence there.

How about the US?

Netanyahu makes slime look bad.

a sad little man on a power trip without a clue about his dementia .

as usual. Now he needs to threaten nuclear war a few times.

Looks like Netanyahu agrees.

"In the face of this changing world, Israel must be a power. Not just a regional power, but in some spheres, a world power.”

For example, information technology, medical technology, intelligence, science. You need some bargaining chips. But nice of everyone to assume he meant military world power.

Where, in your own quote, does he say those "spheres" are "information technology, medical technology, intelligence, science"?

That was my comment - that's why it wasn't in quotes. What spheres do you think he had in mind? Do you think he meant military? Why?

The rather hostile responses throughout this discussion seem based on the assumption that he meant in all spheres, or certainly in the military sphere. I don't think that makes sense for Israel, and I don't think that's what he meant. I think the spheres I listed do make sense. Economic, knowledge. Not financial, given the way world markets are.

It fits the narrative for some to believe that Israel wants to try to take over the world.

Don't care that the OP link is totally inappropriate for LBN, not to mention unreliable.

People who post articles from there (or comment on them) ought to reflect on that fact as they consider the information presented therein.

And let's note that this is from FarRightSettlersNews - anything but 'national'; just loony.

of the official gov't line in important for all to peruse and consider when evaluating the state of israel.