Taxpayer funded nonsense.
The only reason why I’m posting this, is to show exactly what a dim witted boob this YLE ”foreign news correspondent” (who lives off the taxpayer’s dime), actually is. There’s a reason as to why many Finns refer to them as Pravda.
For a proper contrast, read Charles Krauthmmer’s piece.
Point of view: Iran’s nuclear weapons are seen as an important threat by Israel
Minna Pärssinen Yle foreign news
At a time when the great powers are massaging an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, Israel accelerates its campaign against the agreement. The election campaigning Prime Minister of Israel appeals to the United States and even to the Iranians, so that they would reject the agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu risked at the beginning of the week Israel’s relations with its key allies in the United States. Netanyahu traveled to Washington at the invitation of the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, to speak before both Houses of Congress.
One speech by the Prime Minister certainly will not destroy the long-term partnership between the United States and Israel, but it can be one of the factors involved in changing American support of Israel into a political party issue.
58 Democratic members of Congress refused to come to hear Netanyahu’s speech.
[TT: The 58 members of Congress who refused to attend, will become targets for replacement in the upcoming election cycle, and justifiably so, because unlike this clown of a ”journalist”, they (the people) realize the existential threat Iran poses, not only to Israel, but to themselves as well, and to their important allies in the West.
Ms.Clueless is well, obviously clueless to how US elections can run, as well as to the fact that, the overwhelming (majority) remainder of the Democrats at the packed-to-the-brim House listening to the speech, were standing in ovation some 25 times if I recall correctly. ]
Neither did the Democrat President, Barack Obama, meet with Netanyahu, for three reasons. At the invitation had not been agreed upon with the White House. Netanyahu is facing elections on 17 of March, and Obama didn’t want to show too much support for any one candidate. And in particular the underlying fact that Obama stands behind the Iran negotiations which Netanyahu has highly criticized.
[TT: Obama is both petulant, arrogant, and full of himself. Of course he wouldn’t meet with Netanyahu, even if it sent a wrong message to the rest of the world’s leaders, foes and friends alike.
It’s all about Obama and everyone else, along with common sense be damned. Pärssinen is an ignoramus, unbeknown to her, Congress, is actually an equal branch of the US Federal government, they do not need to inform nor seek the presidents approval to invite foreign heads of state.
Besides, Obama has entertained plenty of heads of state at the White House in spite of their having currently been involved in reelection campaigns and never thought to seek Congress’s approval, nor should he have.]
On Thursday, Netanyahu went into overdrive and appealed on the BBC’s Persian service directly to the Iranian people.
– The agreement would allow Iran’s current leadership to arm ourselves with nuclear weapons. I said that this would be a great threat not only to Israel, but to the entire region and the world. And I think it would also give a spark in the Middle East to an arms race. That would be very, very dangerous for all its residents, including the Iranian people.
Illegally said the prime minister, whose own country developed in secret nuclear weapons nearly 50 years ago.
Israel has not publicly acknowledged its nuclear weapons nor denied it, but this is still considered a fact. The country is not included in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it is estimated (eg. Arms Control Association) to have at least 80 nuclear warheads.
[TT: The sanctimonious, moral equivocation of Israel with the IslamoNazi regime in Tehran couldn’t be any more clear, this is the rantings of stupid woman. No one is threatening Iran, but it’s Iran that has consistently threatened the Jewish state with extermination, while it exports its Shiite Islamic revolution to the world.
If this woman really cares about the Iranian people, she should shudder to think what they will be capable of once they achieve an arsenal, that when the gloves really do come off and there will be real blood flowing in the streets as they take to completing the ayatollah’s revolution. Plus, they’ll have the Europeans crapping in their pants.]
What then, is Netanyahu, against in the agreement? Five nuclear powers as well as Germany are in negotiations with Iran till the end of March, seeking a framework agreement, with the final agreement on how to monitor Iran’s nuclear program, and undermine opportunities to develop nuclear weapons by the end of June. The intention is that Iran would take at least a year to enrich enough material for a nuclear weapon.
In Netanyahu’s view, the agreement is dangerous because it does not destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons manufacturing technology. In addition, Netanyahu fears that the manufacture of weapons continues to after the ten-year contract expires.
It should be noted that Israel is not the only one in the Middle East, who is opposed to the agreement. Also, many of the Gulf Sunni Muslim states, with Saudi Arabia leading the way, who abhor the idea of Shi’ite Iran’s growing influence. US Secretary of State John Kerry popped in Riyadh on Thursday, calming down the Saudis, but the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, expressed his country was concerned about what would happen if control of Iran’s nuclear program is relaxed and the time period and trade sanctions against Iran dismantled.
[TT: All valid concerns. Their ‘good intentions’ have to be viewed in light of what happened in North Korea, where amazingly similar good intentions were on display, leading right up to the NORKs achieving a nuclear arsenal. The Israelis have every right to be concerned, once it happens, the world just shrugs, ”oh well, a fait accompli’‘.]
But what is there to take its place? Although the agreement does not completely eliminate the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, is it not a better option than no agreement at all? Now the period for break-out has been extended to a year,- in the past, scientists estimated that Iran is able to obtain enough weapons grade uranium in to two months.
It’s dreadful to think what might happen as result if the negotiations collapse. Nothing will motivate Iran to refrain from building a nuclear weapon, in the event Israel would make missile attacks on Iran and the US would be forced to support its ally. And so on, imagine each event in a series of follow-ups according to your own degree of pessimism.
Israel’s campaign has obvious internal political reasons. Israeli voters will appreciate a robust and strong leader. What is more sturdy than to dare to disagree with its main supporter? Netanyahu has spoken of the Iranian threat to the electorate for a couple of decades, so of course, even now, two weeks before the election.
[TT: So taking a lousy deal, that will kick the can down the road for a future generation to handle, is more preferable to a drawing a line in the sand, enforcing tougher sanctions, even the placing of allied warships outside the ports where Iran sends it oil to be refined into gasoline, and forcing Iran to cough up all its nukes?]
NOTE: What’s frightening, is that this is the creme of the crop at YLE, where taking dictation from Democrat operatives fulfils their sense of journalistic duty.
