Barak warns ‘tsunami’ of sanctions awaits Israel

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JERUSALEM | Israel faces a “diplomatic tsunami” that could erode its international support and bolster its enemies in the Middle East, the Jewish state’s defense minister said this week.

Ehud Barak also criticized his coalition government partner, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying indecisiveness by the prime minister “was pushing Israel into a corner from which the old South Africa’s deterioration began.”

More than 110 countries have announced their recognition of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority hopes that number will be 150 by September, when it plans to request formal recognition from the United Nations.

“We face a diplomatic tsunami that the majority of the public is unaware of,” Mr. Barak said during a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies. “Israel’s delegitimization is in sight.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/barak-warns-tsunami-of-sanctions-awaits-israel/

[bemildred]

1. And he had a lot to do with bringing that about.

Him and the other Ehud and Jabba.

But right now, I think Barak is just thinking about his own career, like always.

[99th_Monkey]

2. Broken clock or blind luck?

Damn. I guess I'm just grateful as Hell that Barak calls one right for a change.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Well he's right. P.S. maybe going into coalition with someone like Netanyahu wasn't that brilliant

an idea!!!

And I suspect that despite his words, Barak will stick with Nutty, however bad for himself, his party and his country.

(Is 'Ehud Barak' perhaps the Hebrew translation of 'Nick Clegg'?)

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. Bad for himself?

Do you think Barak has a political future without Netanyahu's support?

[LeftishBrit]

6. No. He might have once, but now he doesn't.

The left won't trust him any more; but neither will the right. I don't think he'll have a political future *with* Netanyahu for much longer.

He will go down in history with Ramsay Macdonald, Nick Clegg et al.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Nick Clegg will go down in history? N.T.

[LeftishBrit]

8. On second thoughts, leave out the last two words.

He will go down!

[Violet_Crumble]

10. What's worse is I think he's genuine with what he said...

...but power is more important to him than anything else, so there he is reaping the benefits by helping into power those who are what he dares to complain about now....

I think you'll find that Nick Clegg is Barak's long lost son, who's trying to make his dad proud of him by doing what he does! :)

[Jefferson23]

4. Netanyahu had an hour of time on CNN last night to spew his position..he

is sticking with it's not Israel that doesn't want peace. This guy is such a piece of shit.


Snip from transcript:

MORGAN: What happens if your continued inability to move this process forward means the international community decides that they're going to go away from you, go with the Palestinians, and set up a state of Palestine, recognize it officially? Where does that leave you?

NETANYAHU: In fact, that's what they're doing. They're actually accelerating the movement away from peace, because when the international community says to Israel, you're the only one that has to compromise, but they don't ask the Palestinians to compromise, to actually recognize the Jewish state, to understand that we'll have to have security arrangements, otherwise we could get Iran walking in, again, a third time, into territory that we vacate.

in full: http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/17/pmt.01.html

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11. He's just giving examples of how to misuse the word 'peace'...

RWers like him think that the more times they throw it into their sentences, the more warm and fuzzy and sympathetic looking they appear....

I took a quick look at the transcript. He's saying that Palestinian terrorists murdered that family, but the last thing I heard was that they hadn't identified the perpetrator(s), and that the investigation was being kept under wraps.

[azurnoir]

9. political posturing nothing more nothing less

and as Barak well knows exactly where will this tsunami come from-the UN? lol