{"id":6184,"date":"2015-03-04T06:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2015-03-04T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:49:03","slug":"bibis-bile-and-bombast-cries-wolf-wants-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"Bibi\u2019s Bile And Bombast\u2014\u2013Cries Wolf, Wants War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/bibis-bile-and-bombast-cries-wolf-wants-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bibi\u2019s Bile And Bombast\u2014\u2013Cries Wolf, Wants War<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Here is the one big takeaway from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/03\/03\/full-text-netanyahus-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a>\u00a0to a joint session of Congress:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home. And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why \u2013 this is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shorter Bibi: Don\u2019t bother trying to make peace with Iran \u2013 because we\u2019ll start a war and drag you into it.<\/p>\n<p>This is no idle threat. While Israel doesn\u2019t have the military capacity to take out Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure, an Israeli attack would inevitably embroil US forces in a military confrontation that would soon escalate throughout the region. In his speech, Netanyahu made a point of thanking the US for all the military support we\u2019ve given them and he has good reason to be grateful: in arming the Israeli Sparta, we\u2019ve handed him the means to blackmail us. This is \u201cblowback\u201d with a vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this threat to drag us into war, the Israeli Prime Minister doesn\u2019t need to make any arguments, but he did anyway, if only for the sake of appearances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibi\u2019s Bile And Bombast\u2014\u2013Cries Wolf, Wants War Here is the one big takeaway from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s\u00a0speech\u00a0to a joint session of Congress: \u201cI can guarantee you this, the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over. \u201cWe are no longer scattered among the nations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3910,1272,441,1049,862],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-congress","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}