Netanyahu Warns U.S. Against Working With Iran To Halt ISIS Advance In Iraq
Source: International Business Times
By Marcy Kreiter
on June 22 2014 5:52 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday said the United States should pit Sunni insurgents in Syria and Iraq against Iran, rather than work with Iran to defeat them.
Netanyahu's comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" were his first on the issue since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured wide swaths of Iraq and opened a land corridor, enabling it to move more easily across the Iraq and Syria.
Netanyahu declined to make specific suggestions but said action needs to be taken to "counter the ISIS takeover of Iraq" and at the same time not allow "Iran to dominate Iraq the way it dominated Lebanon and Syria," the Jerusalem Post reported.
“When your enemies are fighting each other, don't strengthen either one of them. Weaken both,” Netanyahu said as U.S. President Barack Obama considered what support to give the Iraqi government in fighting the militants, who want to establish a caliphate encompassing parts of Syria and northern Iraq.
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aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Lots of right wing critics of Obama have been warning him of what he shouldn't do. But I never hear any solutions being offered describing what he should do. This "action needs to be taken" advice without specifics other than Obama finding a magic wand is getting old.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)Yeah..."Let's you and him fight"..
Seems like I remember this from some self-help book - tactics that manipulative people use to stir up trouble.
Netanyahoo is insane.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Will Israel's Prime Minister be coordinating strategies with the Saudi King next?
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Both nations benefit from failed states in Syria and Iraq.
The Unspoken Alliance: Israel and the House of Saud
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23420/Default.aspx
Both states are dominated by religious conservatives. They have more in common than most realize.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)(sigh)
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I had not seen it reported, but I don't follow Bebe that closely as a general rule.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)There are more likely to coordinate strategies with ISIS (which is the proxy army of Saudi Arabia) to topple that Assad administration. They've already set up clinics to treat the injured rebels and the rebels have been caught using weapons with hebrew writing on it. If you ask me, I say Natenyahoo is secretly rooting for ISIS
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I wouldn't have thought it was possible. I do, however, see the utility in such an initiative by Netanyahu's government.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Bebe couldn't get the American public to go for attacking Iran so this is his way of bringing that about IF...Obama allows it to happen. Obama has so many enemies and frenemies fighting against him from inside and outside he is just amazing to on going forward.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Remember all the funds, jets and other military items you get from Uncle Sam which we could withhold at any time. You might not want to piss us off.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Wargames, 1983
monmouth3
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yurbud
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)they're afraid of ending up in the same boat a decade down the road--no beaucoup bucks, no ceremonies of Congresspeople swearing their loyalty en masse, no unconditional impunity on the international stage, no untouchability in media and lobbying
THEY know full well that Nixon had plans to attack Israel as well as Arabia '73, and that the US's "honeymoon" with them only really started with Entebbe, and that Rafael Trujillo was once as favored as they are now--and that none of those things lasted long
samsingh
(17,596 posts)unfortunately
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)That is ISIS's stated goal.
