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Similarly, in the 1990s, the Democratic Union Party in Northern Ireland and its leader, Ian Paisley, the Netanyahu of Ulster politics, argued fiercely against the Good Friday agreement but smiled cheerfully when he eventually sat down alongside Martin McGuinness.
If ones takes Israel's public position at face value, however, it is hard not to ask how it got itself into a position where its wishes could be ignored by its closest ally, the United States (an ally that according to popular opinion its Washington lobbies have in their pockets).
One answer might be the extraordinary, prickly, combative persona of Mr Netanyahu. One of the interesting things about his two terms as prime minister, in the late Nineties and now, has been the personal effect he has had on foreign governments and their representatives.
Other Israeli leaders like Ehud Olmert and even Ariel Sharon, who launched or took part in brutal assaults on Arab neighbours, were vilified by their enemies. Only Mr Netanyahu provoked such hostility in his friends.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10470998/Iran-nuclear-deal-Israel-rages-and-no-one-cares.html
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)hepajames
(1 post)Iran claims to acquire N-technology for peaceful purpose, mainly for building power-generating plants, wherase IAEA and the world at large suspect otherwise. So, bsically this tug of war is going on. There is no authentic report as to verify that Iran is really after the nuclear bomb etc. In the Press conflicting reports keep on appearing, sometimes backing Iran's version, at other its enemies. Just write Iran nculear programme and you will get hoard of info/articles etc on the issue.
malaise
(267,823 posts)This planet is tired of the warmongers
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)TBF
(31,922 posts)I am in my late 40s but look with optimism to our youth - they are less into the consumerism, sick of polluting the planet, done with the the bigotry (when I explained gay marriage to my ten year old she said "of course they should get married" and rolled her eyes), and sick of the war-mongering.
I really hope their generation can move quickly to save the planet because lord knows the Reagan generation has done a shitload of damage.