Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily'

From the Huffington Post news wire:

As noted in Haaretz, Netanyahu seems to boast of his knowledge of the US by saying, "I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in their way."

He also boasts of manipulating the U.S. in the ongoing peace process, as the Washington Post points out:

"They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]," he said. "I said I would, but ... I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue."

More here.

Wow, that's pretty arrogant, lots of contempt for the American people. And utterly unsurprising. As I've asserted several times before, Israeli policy toward the Palestinians makes no sense if you take them at their word that they're making good faith efforts toward a just and peaceful solution to the conflict. But if you don't take them at their word, if you look at the entire peace process as nothing more than an Israeli ruse to cover their slow war of attrition and demographic gain against the Palestinians, then their actions start to make a lot more sense.

If, for instance, you're honestly trying to make peace, why the hell do you continue to allow ultra-orthodox right-wing Israeli "settlers" to invade and occupy Palestinian land? And the list of in-your-face contradictions just goes on and on. Israel is not interested in peace. Their real strategy is to make the Palestinians "live like dogs" in hopes that they get the hell out.

So Israel has been lying to us for decades, and gotten away with it almost completely. They say "jump" and we ask "how high?" Of course, their leaders hold us in contempt. We're nothing but a bunch of sheep who give them guns.

Pretty pathetic.

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