NETANYAHU COMES TO MAKE WAR

NETANYAHU COMES TO CONGRESS TO DECLARE WAR

Prime Minister "Bibi" Netanyahu has come to give a speech tomorrow, March 3, 2015 to the US Congress. He is here to encourage our elected officials to pass legislation to impose further sanctions on Iran, even while delicate negotiations are on-going in Geneva on this very subject. His intention to encourage our Republican-led Congress to legislate further sanctions on Iran is designed to undercut and sabotage the efforts of President Obama and Secretary Kerry who are attempting to formulate an agreement to put limits on Iran's nuclear program. The Obama agreement would limit Iran's development of nuclear material in exchange for relief from international sanctions.

Here I ignore the media frenzy created by Mr.Netanyahu's invitation to Congress and the sneaky way it was arranged by means of secret meetings between Speaker Boehner and the representatives of the head of a foreign government. The slimy machinations had the express purpose of undermining one of President Obama's top foreign policy priorities....a nuclear deal with Iran. The apparent goal of both Netanyahu and Boehner were to embarrass and sabotage our President. Speaker Boehner, who too often forgets he is an American first and only second a Republican representative, should be taken to task for his (some would call traitorous), behavior. Mr. Netanyahu is a foreign politician working to further his own political and national goals and mostly to save his seat in the upcoming Israeli election. His actions are only what we would expect. What IS important is that Mr. Netanyahu is here to undermine our duly elected President's foreign policy.

What should be kept in mind is that the negotiations in Geneva have come to the point where Iran has agreed to limit its production of nuclear fuel (and to submit to intrusive inspections) but with the proviso that the onerous sanctions be lifted. That would be a reasonable agreement that responsible leaders could all agree to. That is all the rest of the world.... except Mr. Netanyahu's Likud government in Israel. Apparently, Israel's intention is that Iran must not have nuclear weapons, certainly not the hundreds they have. But they go beyond that. They do not want Iran to have the potential, the industrial ability, or the technology to make such weapons. That is not and was never the goal of the Geneva talks. Devastating total war, reducing Iran to rubble, can only achieve THAT goal. The Israeli claim of existential threat is a farce, it is really an insistence to continue as the only nuclear armed hegemon in the Middle East. It nuclear hegemony is necessary to support its policy of military expansion, illegal occupation and imperialism in the region. Their goals can only be achieved by eliminating all and any competitors, even those that offer only token opposition. Iran for all their bluster is no threat to Israeli survival. But it is the only nation in that region still standing. With the unwitting help of a malleable Bush President the Israeli right wing and their supporters and minions managed over the last decade to have the major parts of the Middle East laid to waste. Now apparently a proxy war with Iran is their present goal. Of course, they do not want to take on Iran all by themselves. Netanyahu is speaking to our Congress with the intention of encouraging us to force Iran to the point of no return. To declare war. He promises to hold our coat while we pay the military costs and send our boys and girls abroad to get killed and maimed for him.

Were our representatives truly apprised of his intentions, instead of standing ovations, Mr. Netanyahu should receive boos and hoots and calls to go home.