Netanyahu's Speech to Inject Zionist Perspective

[IndianaGreen]

Let's get ready to listen to the Israeli version of Newt Gingrich, a fat blubber of lies! Down with theocracies!

:puke:

By Howard Schneider
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 14, 2009

JERUSALEM, June 13 -- When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivers a major foreign policy address Sunday, the setting will be part of the message: He will speak at Bar-Ilan University, which was founded in 1955 to unite secular learning with religious Zionism.

Advisers to Netanyahu and Israeli political analysts say the speech will be a response to President Obama's address to Muslims this month at Cairo University. Netanyahu, they say, wants to inject a Zionist "narrative" into a discussion that he believes was tilted in Obama's speech toward the Arab version of events.

While Netanyahu's remarks are expected to range across issues, including Obama's demand for a freeze on Jewish settlements and the U.S. president's call for the establishment of a Palestinian state, they will center on Netanyahu's assertion that Arabs must recognize Israel as a state for the peace process to succeed.

The point is not a condition for the start of peace talks with the Palestinians or other Arab nations, Netanyahu's advisers have said. But just as Israel is being asked to acknowledge the Palestinian identity of a neighboring country under the "two-state solution" advocated by Obama and European leaders, Netanyahu believes that an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict requires a similar acknowledgment from the other side, they say.

"They need to cross the Rubicon of a Jewish state," said a Netanyahu adviser involved in preparing the speech. "That will be necessary for an agreement, because then you know the conflict is over."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/13/AR2009061302151.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[madeline_con]

1. I'll second that

:puke:

[Jim Sagle]

2. Allow me to express a dissenting view.

:beer:

[shira]

3. down with theocracies? i must have missed the memo re: Israel = Theocracy

:crazy:

[Sezu]

4. heh...because it's a JEWISH state silly. That MUST mean

it's religious and the secular part is all smoke and mirrors right?

:sarcasm: