Benjamin Netanyahu 10-1-15 UN Transcript : Obama Pulls Kerry, Powers

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Maggie’s Notebook by Maggie

There are reports that Barack Obama pulled the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power and Secretary of State John Kerry from Netanyahu’s October 1, 2015 speech. The report says there was a “video conference” with Obama (or maybe not even that). Cowards run and hide. The disrespectful get their full measure of disrespect. (Speech transcript and video below)

While the Israeli Prime Minister said he is open to peace talks with Palestine with “no conditions,” but Mahmoud Abbas has declined, we know that Palestine will never accept Israel’s right to exist where it is, and Israel will never accept any agreement without that right.

Netanyahu elegantly speaks of the friendship between the U.S. and Israel, calls it “unshakeable,” laughable, but of course he must do this. At the same time he demolishes every argument for the Iranian…