Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Palin and Bush tools out again! Is Benjamin Netanyahu the Liberals new threat?

When PM Netanyahu succeeds in winning over the American public as the polls recently made have shown, like a POS poll relased this week that shows 52% of Americans think Netanyahu is committed reaching a peace agreement, 56% aupport Israel's side in the conflict, and Monday's Rasmussen poll showing 49% of Americans think the Flotilla activists are to blame in the Gaza flotilla incident while only 19% blame Israel, this comes with opinion polls released in the past few months by CNN and Gallup, all showing the US voters disapprove Obama's handling of Israel and his Mideast policy.

With polls showing Republicans are the largest group in the Country supporting Israel, and top Republican official sticking up for Israel's right and supporting Israel, here comes the bashing bat and the Liberals response, if its Obama's advisors or his loving media allies, blaming now Netanyahu as the blame to America's weekness in the World and the lack of influence the US has in the World, oh!is Netanyahu planning to run as a contender in the next upcoming election, or is he endorsing Republican contenders to defeat Obama or maybe he is just the winning argument - BUSH.

As Peter Beinhart writes in the Daily Beast:
"As an Obama official once told me about the Netanyahu team, with amazement, ‘these guys are actually waiting for President Palin,"
In a critical article noting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and senior government officials preach to the chorus of right-wing and Christian fundamentalist groups in the United States, Beinart cited the American education and background of the Prime Minister and senior aides. Prime Minister Netanyahu learned at a Philadelphia high school and his close adviser Ron Dermer and Ambassador to the United States were born there.

He maintained that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reaction to the flotilla crisis “shows just how out of touch he is with America” while ignoring what Beinart said is the “need to join the age of Obama.”
“This familiarity breeds overconfidence and ignorance,When Netanyahu travels to Washington, he speaks before Jewish audiences that mostly dislike Barack Obama’s Israel policy, even though according to a recent American Jewish Committee survey, American Jews overall support it by a margin of close to two to one. When he’s not speaking to right-wing Jews, he’s speaking to right-wing Christians. And when he’s not speaking to right-wing Christians, he’s speaking to former Bush administration officials who expect to soon be back in their old jobs.”
And here comes the 2008 winning argument:

David Graham writes in the Newsweek a article under the headline: Bibi Is the New Bush
An ideological, right-wing leader comes to power. He seems sure to be more disciplined than his predecessor, a centrist politician who sailed from scandal to scandal. Domestically, the electorate is sharply polarized—they’re still sore over terrorist attacks that have killed many of their fellow citizens, but they have strong disagreements about how best to respond. The government, however, has no such hesitation. The cabinet is stacked with veterans of the armed forces and the defense establishment who are sure that a strong show of force will finish off the country’s Muslim tormentors. The world doesn’t see it that way, and despite impressive deployments of troops—and plenty of military victories—the nation becomes more and more diplomatically isolated, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of freedom.
Sounds awfully like the United States in the mid-2000s. But it is also Israel today. Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies increasingly echo American policies under George W. Bush. He has deployed overwhelming force where nuanced, tactical approaches would have worked better; spurned international opinion; and ignored gathering discontent among voters at home. Staying the course, to use a favorite phrase of Bush’s, could do serious harm to Israel’s reputation abroad and be disastrous for Netanyahu and his Likud Party at home.

Netanyahu seems to be treading a similar path. He has not only refused any meaningful compromise on West Bank settlements, but his government answered intense White House pressure with an embarrassing snub to visiting Vice President Joe Biden. At a time when Israel is already under scrutiny for alleged war crimes in a Gaza war launched by the previous premier, Netanyahu ordered a disastrous raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that attracted the maximum possible attention (nine aid workers died) with the least possible benefit.

Israel is beginning to feel the burn. Policymakers in Washington, its lockstep ally, are tearing their hair out over Netanyahu’s settlement intransigence. President Obama’s one-on-one White House meeting with the prime minister after the Biden snub was so chilly that a readout for the press—standard protocol after a chat between national leaders—was not produced. And the U.N. was able to make an unusual condemnation of the flotilla raid because the United States declined to veto it. Even among Israel’s supporters, people are fretting openly about the possibility that Jerusalem will become as isolated as South Africa’s apartheid government. “Israel cannot afford to become another South Africa, Burma, or North Korea,” Max Boot wrote in Commentary the day after the raid. “The IDF should be mindful of the French experience in Algeria and the American experience in Vietnam: it is possible to win every battle and still lose the war.”

Instead of realizing that the soft approach obama took towards America's enemies have backlashed of America's power , and weakened America's influence and security, as John Bolton, Charles Krathaummer, Micheal Goodwin and more claim...

Or as Pollster John zogby puts it as he grades Obama's performance this week C- :
"This is the type of week a president could wake in a cold sweat and ask 'did I really want this job.' No matter which way you cut it, this has been a bad week. As his VP might whisper, this has been a BFW. Just look at the map and you see potential and real blowouts in the Koreas, the Middle East, the Gulf of Mexico, and in Brazil and Turkey, who are asserting some authority with Iran. At home, high tech giant Hewlett Packard is laying off thousands. On the other hand, his polling numbers are not moving up or down. Americans don't trust the Democrats...."

Here is the easy way out... Attack..Blame...paint your faliure as a success built on painting Other's success as a faliure and a key to your faliures.

Its not like Israel has to be shamed of Bush or Palin, Bush kept America safe after 9/11, brought the war on terror fight in the enemies court, and toppled Saddam's dangerous regime, and much more has to besaid on Bush, but this is the hypocricy, instead of changing course, realizing faliures and mistakes done, Israel under netanyahu has done more then any government to secure Israel's security and moves and compromises to resume peace talks that will lead to a viable secured peace, but If Netnayahu shares the same common values as the American public or the Republicans... here goes the easy part .. paint him as a Republican and he's out.