Just as Putin has accomplished something no one else could get done – re-vitalizing NATO, so too has Israeli Wannabe Dictator Netanyahu achieved the formerly impossible – Getting Iran and Saudi Arabia moving towards better relations.
But, beyond that, his efforts to solidify is authoritarian control are carrying Israel towards disaster.
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RE: “Israeli Wannabe Dictator Netanyahu achieved the formerly impossible – Getting Iran and Saudi Arabia moving towards better relations.”
Most news stories credit China for brokering the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Your story doesn’t even mention it.
It is a wild leap to credit Netanyahu with “getting Iran and Saudi Arabia moving towards better relations.” Not a serious notion.
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“Most news stories credit China for brokering the rapprochement . . .”
Most news stories leave out that Iraq played the role of facilitator with China coming in at the end. But that does not matter. Giving Netanyahu and his warlike fascist government some of the credit is clearly a matter of opinion. I get it that you disagree. At any rate, it is a diplomatic failure by Israel to have its erstwhile de facto ally move towards its enemy.
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RE: “At any rate, it is a diplomatic failure by Israel to have its erstwhile de facto ally move towards its enemy.”
It is more a diplomatic failure by the U.S. whose illegal sanctions and proxy war in Ukraine are causing new geopolitical alignments to emerge.
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“It is more a diplomatic failure by the U.S.”
Uh, nope.
We want peace in the Middle East. Their is no advantage FOR US in having Iran and Saudia Arabia constantly at each other’s throat.
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RE: “We want peace in the Middle East.”
So what? Iran and Saudi Arabia both have aligned with Russia/China over the Ukraine war. Their rapprochement is a natural consequence of having the same anti-U.S. interests.
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It is kind of weird you would accuse a jew of being a facist. I assume Adam will be tearing you a new butt hole for being anti- Semitic while comparing one of his own to Hitler and rightfully calls you a hater. Oooh the racism has oozed all over the floor…
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People often confuse being against Likud with being Antisemitic. They are very different and I will wager a dollar against a donut that Adam understands the difference very well. There is a substantial portion of the people of Israel who find Likud to be abhorrent and a danger to peace. Netanyahu’s recent actions have reinforced that view.
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” I assume Adam will be tearing you a new butt hole for being anti- Semitic “…
You know that when you ASSume, you make an ass out of yourself.
Challenging Netanyahu for his politics and how he is running his government is NOT anti-Semitic; it is anti-Netanyahu. You don’t know the difference so there is no surprise you would ASS-Ume what I would say.
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Now here is proof of an anti-Semitic semite with a potty mouth no less. Who would have thought such a thing existed but the left wing sure knows how to curse and abuse and throw temper tantrums while being anti-semitic and/or projecting their typical hate. Perhaps they need to listen to Arnold again and come to a moral reckoning.
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Grow up, Bo. You know not of what you speak.
You refuse to understand the distinction about anti-Netanyahu and anti-Semitic. Once you walk in Semitic shoes, You can decide if you know. But based on your history, you’ll screw it up.
AS far as potty mouth, goes, if my capitalization of a few letters in a word rises o the level of “potty mouth” in your world, that makes you a big freaking SNOWFLAKE. I hurt Bob’s little Right wing (un)sensibilities. Quick, Get your master, Mr. Roberts to threaten me with censoring or blocking.
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Adam – Don’t feed the troll.
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RE: “It is kind of weird you would accuse a jew of being a facist.”
I thought it was weird, too. I guess if Netanyahu can be a fascist, Zelensky can be a neo-Nazi, but I never would have predicted it.
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The similarities among Netanyahu, Erdogan, Orban and Trump are pretty obvious. Pack the courts, defuse regulatory structures, vilify non-Jews…Americans…Turks…Hungarians.
These people are all cut from a similar rotten mold.
Netanyahu and his minions are either convicted fraudsters or under indictment. But they are populists appealing to enough ignorant or extremist or criminals to consolidate power technically legally. Then change the laws to prevent ouster legally. Friends in high places by the powerful would-be oligarchs help reassure a rapacious nature, people be damned.
Dictators can rule over anyone. Democratic governance needs educated and reasonably secure citizens. One begets the other if the rules are fair. Change the rules and clamp down on dissent and the regime becomes not a government by and for the people, but Stalinesque, and suddenly people realize they have been screwed.
So far we are hanging on, but other countries may not. And they have militaries to lash out at perceived external threats should support for the leaders falter.
We have seen this over and over, and I agree, it never ends well.
Goering told us precisely how to control the will of the people. Tell them they are under threat, then call dissenters unpatriotic and the rest is our bloody histories. Works every time.
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RE: “Dictators can rule over anyone. Democratic governance needs educated and reasonably secure citizens.”
I tend to agree with Plato who argued (I’m oversimplifying) that dictatorships can be the best form of government, that they eventually become corrupt and are replaced with government by the social elite class which in turn becomes corrupt and is replaced with government by democracy which, too, becomes corrupt and is replaced by dictatorship. The one constant in this never-ending cycle is that each phase succumbs to corruption.
The lesson in all of that is that ethics and genius are the salvation of each period, if they can be cultivated.
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The best solution we have come up with, so far, is representative democracy, or as often brought out, we are a republic with democratically elected representatives and administration. It has worked here for 250 years.
Peaceful transfers of power is critical. Without that we can slip into autocracy since, essentially, the backstop of the will of the people is ignored.
IMO
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RE: “The best solution we have come up with, so far, is representative democracy, or as often brought out, we are a republic with democratically elected representatives and administration. ”
The republican form of government corresponds with the second phase in Plato’s cycle as I have described it: government by the social elite class. If you don’t want a dictatorship (monarchy) this is the next best option.
Peaceful transfers of power are important, but they are hardly sufficient to prevent dictatorship.
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Flip side, how many dictatorships have peaceful transfer of power?
IMO citizens need to have faith and trust that their voices are important and respected, without coercion. Our Constitution provides a mechanism that is better than most to provide that reassurance.
Perfect, of course not. Yet this political culture is strong here. And that is why we often see nascent democracies fail. Like Russia. It had no culture of a participatory democracy, ever. A few years of effort from Glasnost is not enough. As soon as any hardship came from adapting to new freedoms, including dabbling in capitalism, it failed and reverted right back to dictatorship. Millions of older Russian lament the loss of a Stalin. And he killed millions of a Russians to retain power.
This is why many of us were dismayed on 1/6. There was a concerted effort to destroy the trust in the voice of the people via the ballot. Not just on that day, but rather a drumbeat of “rigged elections” since 2016. Why, because elections are the key power check of a successful democratic government. It is our principle we were founded on as in government for, of and by the people.
Dismissing the value of the ballot is a real danger and there are forces that would have us diminish that.
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For those who think anti-Israel is anti-Semitic need to think again.
That is similar to challenging American policies and calling that anti-Christian.
But autocrats love to nurture that because it riles up folks and gets votes. And, more pernicious, is that religious fervor masks their foul intents.
IMO
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“For those who think anti-Israel is anti-Semitic need to think again.”
Not again. Just THINK.
“That is similar to challenging American policies and calling that anti-Christian.”
But it is! Or to quote Blazing Saddles, “IT’S TWOO! IT’S TWOO!” 😉
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Israel was established as a “Jewish state” and the homeland for jews, the US was not established as a Christian state or a homeland for christians. Non-Israeli jews are offered automatic citizenship to Israel while non-US Christians are not. Almost 75% of Israel’s is practicing Jewish, only 63% in the US identify as Christian but it is unknown how many actually practice it. So, anti-israel is indeed anti-semitic while anti US is clearly not anti christian.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_state#:~:text=Modern%20Israel%20came%20into%20existence,for%20British%20Palestine%20in%201947.
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“So, anti-israel is indeed anti-semitic”
Anti-Israeli GOVERNMENT, Netanyahu in particular, is the issue, Mr. Smith. You can never understand how difficult it is to know that the Jewish state is being run by a wannabe Orban.
For YOU to call something anti-Semitic when you don’t even understand the complexities of the issue is disingenuous. May I suggest you LISTEN to those who have to fight that internal battle on a regular basis.
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Israel’s government is Jewish so your anti-Israeli government is anti-semitic. What a conundrum.
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Your lack of understanding the difference between policy and religion is on full display with your continued nonsense. I don’t like Mike Pence. Does that mean I am anti-Christian? No. It means I don’t like his political philosophy. I don’t like you. Does that mean I am anti-White? No it means I don’t like people who spew hate.
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I dont like you either so the feeling is mutual but that doesn’t make me a racist or s hater. Those are just hollow words you like to throw around at people who disagree with you. Pretty lame actually…
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