What's Iran Up To? 'We Know,' Says Netanyahu. "How do you know what [the Iranians] are doing? " she asks, hoping perhaps to see the prime minister flustered. Maybe he will stumble. Or he may be reduced to wringing his hands -- as our own State Department spokespeople seem to do every day on TV. Netanyahu looks steadily at his interlocutor. He doesn't waver. His baritone voice conveys finality: "We know," he says. "We know, and others know. The CNN reporter is just the latest in a long line of talking heads from that network. The CNN reporter is trying to build the case for more time for sanctions. The sanctions, he politely informs her, have yet to take a bite out of Iran's nuclear program. Benjamin Netanyahu is not about to be distracted by arcane discussions -- which the media and the U.S.
These media/State Department fixations are a perfect replay of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's feckless leadership during the "Phony War" with Hitler in 1939-40. But Hitler knew how weak, how irresolute, his enemies were. Netanyahu at UN: Palestinians can get state only after peace with Israel. Text size related articles Sep.23,2011 | 7:54 PM | 9 Sep.23,2011 | 7:54 PM | 6 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the Palestinians must first make peace with Israel, and only after get their state, during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York.
What did you think of Netanyahu's speech at the General Assembly? Visit Haaretz.com on Facebook and share your views. Click here for the full transcript of Netanyahu's speech at the UN. Click here the full transcript of Abbas' speech at the UN. "Israel is prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we're not prepared to have another Gaza there," Netanyahu stressed. He spoke Friday shortly after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, asked the United Nations to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of failed negotiations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 66th UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. U.S. Netanyahu set for UN diplomatic showdown. Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו.