Off Topic: Bennett: Why Should Israel Pay for US Policy Mistakes?
Why Should Israel Pay for US Policy Mistakes? Israel National News, February 6, 2014
Economics Minister insists Israel focus on looking out for its own interests, says Kerry’s plan ‘would bring tragedy to Israel’.
Naftali Bennett, Flash90
The United States has made many mistakes in its Middle East Policy, and it is Israel that has paid for those mistakes, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday. Speaking to Israel Radio, Bennett pointed out to a range of what he said were errors and miscalculations by the U.S., vowing that he would not allow Washington to impose yet another tragic mistake on Israel.
“Washington insisted on instituting elections for the Palestinians, and they elected Hamas,” Bennett said. “Washington insisted that Israel withdraw from Gaza, and in return we got tens of thousands of rockets on southern Israel, after democratically elected Hamas took over Gaza.”
Now, a new idea has cropped up – having NATO troops defend Israel in the Jordan Valley and other areas that Israel withdraws from in Judea and Samaria as part of a final-status agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Like the other ideas the U.S. has had, this one would bring tragedy to Israel, and Israelis must make sure this does not happen, Bennett said.
“We will never let anyone else be responsible for our security,” said Bennett. “Only the IDF will defend Israelis. In recent weeks we have been told that if we make a deal with the Palestinians then prices will go down, but if we don’t Israel will be isolated and forsaken. I would suggest that all these people making these threats think twice. Israelis are stronger than these threats, and no one will persuade us to destroy our national home with these threats.”
Bennett added that he had nothing against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and he was very appreciative of Israel’s special relationship with the United States. Neither Kerry nor the Obama administration were “anti-Semites,” as some were saying, he said, but it was up to Israel to look out for its own interests, and to make the decisions it needed to make to defend itself.
If a framework for an agreement is presented, he added, it would be brought to Israelis for a referendum.
By David Lev
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February 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM
Wrong Israel is paying for its own policy mistakes,it is wrong and deliberately misleading to blame America for Bibi’s failings,that doesn’t mean that America has not screwed up,but Israel should of acted years ago,Bibi chose not to do the job himself
February 6, 2014 at 9:00 PM
Justice, I could not agree with you more!!
February 6, 2014 at 7:55 PM
The real problem is that there is no accountability. Kerry in his ignorance endangers our lives here in Israel and he will never be held accountable for it. If all the authors of previous failed peace plans (Oslo I, Oslo II, Taba, Wye, Tenet, Mitchell, Zinni, Sharm El-Sheikh, Roadmap) would have been held accountable for their schemes and fined for their failure, with the penalty doubling with every successive flop, they would think seriously before coming up with the next bright idea. Politicians should be asked to take a competency test first and only permitted to make decisions in the area in which they have shown that they grasp the essentials. Therefore I suggest that everyone dealing with the Middle East should take the Kerry Middle East Competency Quiz http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/a-mini-5-1-question-quiz-for-secretary.html
February 6, 2014 at 9:56 PM
Not close kerry is on side the problem is obama,You think its a disaster now it would be catastrophic without Kerry believe me