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Netanyahu's main priority is for the US to bomb Iran (Original Post) redstateblues Dec 2016 OP
What is Israel's end game? no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #1
To never have another Holocaust HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #2
Yea, insead we'll just genocide all those dirty Palestinians! /s Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #4
Never Forget is dogma HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #7
For anyone or just Israelis? Chasstev365 Dec 2016 #8
You substituted "Israel" for "Netanyahu" and that is a problem. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #5
Remain the dominant military power (nukes) in Middle East. yallerdawg Dec 2016 #6
This basically Calculating Dec 2016 #9
i suspect trump & his Israeli ambassador will green light that in no time spanone Dec 2016 #3
the end game Backwoodsrider Dec 2016 #10
Yes - This Is Netanyahu's Obsession DDySiegs Dec 2016 #11
Bibi is very smart. dump is very stupid. Netanyahu will work him over like Silly Putty PearliePoo2 Dec 2016 #12
He is going to play Trump like a bad fiddle. smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #13

no_hypocrisy

(46,063 posts)
1. What is Israel's end game?
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:17 PM
Dec 2016

Iran's oil?

Annex part of Iran into Israel?

Take out a country that could take out Israel?

All of the above?

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
6. Remain the dominant military power (nukes) in Middle East.
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:23 PM
Dec 2016

No nukes in the hands of their enemies.

It's a survival instinct that could lead to Armageddon.

Calculating

(2,955 posts)
9. This basically
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:38 PM
Dec 2016

Israelis are in the unfortunate situation of being completely surrounded by countries that hate them. They REALLY don't want to see the surrounding countries get nuclear weapons.

Backwoodsrider

(764 posts)
10. the end game
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:41 PM
Dec 2016

Some people on the Right want war to breakout in the Middle East cause then JCs coming back and only they get to go to heaven all the rest of us heathens got to roast in Hell together

Afraid Bibi is believing his own lies like many on the Right.....

DDySiegs

(253 posts)
11. Yes - This Is Netanyahu's Obsession
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 03:42 PM
Dec 2016

Because I believe it is entirely apropos here, I repeat below a response I made to an earlier thread:

"Lets look back to 2015 when the Israeli government did everything it could to block the Iran Nuclear deal. Really the only argument they made at the time was that the agreement would lead to Iran being able to produce a nuclear weapon within a few months after the end of the 10 year centrifuge limitations. This argument, as with others that the Israeli government made, was rather pathetic. Why? Because without these and other limitations, the Iranians could have finished development of, and constructed, a nuclear weapon within a few months of the end of negotiations leading to the deal - which would have been in 2015. No deal and the Iranians would already have constructed a nuclear weapon months ago. The Israeli government's position was non-sensical unless it is concluded that what they really wanted was an excuse to bomb Iran and get the United States to join in the bombing. And, by the way, no one has ever offered any reason to believe that such bombing would successfully have deprived Iran of a nuclear weapon capability. The only conclusion one can draw is that the Israelis "believed" that they, with the help of the U.S. military, could have imposed a Carthaginian (salted earth) Peace on Iran. What a ludicrous idea! 

So now when President Obama and his administration look askance at the Israeli governments motives - and for good and sufficient reasons - Netanyahu's response is to malign and defame the president for his refusal to play the role of his lap dog in the U.N.Security Council. The Israeli government seems to be hoping that through its anti-Obama rants they can con Trump and his incoming administration into support of an unnecessary war that President Obama and Secretaries Kerry and Moniz had the good sense to avoid."

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
12. Bibi is very smart. dump is very stupid. Netanyahu will work him over like Silly Putty
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 04:00 PM
Dec 2016

He knows all he has to do is flatter this clown, say how brilliant he is and dump, the fool, will be doing his bidding.
This tactic worked brilliantly for Pooty!
We are in a world of shit, folks!

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