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Netanyahu: We're in 1939
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 10.09.07, 13:31
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1. military shmelitary
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, MO USA   (09.10.07)
They commit political pogroms as you did without repent. No Tshuvah, NO Bibi! You hate Jews and don't even try to make the cse for otherwise..
2. Netanyahu is dump!
SOUND OF REASON ,   JERUSALEM   (09.10.07)
& stupid >
3. Only Military Option Will Work.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (09.10.07)
Everything else is an excuse to delay the inevitable. It is pointless to waste time with sanctions & diplomatic pressure. The only real question is who will do it - the Americans or us. And hitting a few targets is not an option - this must be a massive attack using whatever weapons necessary to totally destroy their military as well as nuclear installations. The saddest irony of the whole situation is that we should be allies of the Iranians against the Arabs. But their poisonous ideology has made this impossible.
4. BIBI says we're in 1939 again
CArolyn   (09.10.07)
In a way he is right Iran must not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons , because they will be turned against Israel and the US first then against the rest of the non muslim world to force compliance with Irans' demands. But the question is Does BIBI have the cahones to do what needs to be done? Do we have the ability to do the job completely and are we in it for the long haul? Can the Homefront be protected for the duration of the war? These are the questions that must be asked and answered! WE know Olmert doesn't have the cahonies to do the job... for Israel must lift the threat of violence from our people and our future...we must rally the world to our cause,by our example,by our courage.We cannot falter or fail because if we do we will cease to exist,fo that is what we are fighting for our very existance!
5. 1939
Michael ,   Haifa   (09.10.07)
If there had been no 1939, Netanyahu would have had to invent it in order to provide ideological legitimacy to his defunct, out of date, political party
6. Yes, Try Sanctions First, But . . .
emanon ,   USA   (09.10.07)
I don;t think they will have any effect. The leaders of Iran are fanatics and will let nothing stand in the way of their goals. The price of war, however, is too steep to jum into without trying other means first. Maybe sanctions and economic divestment will wake up the general populace and they will realize where their leaders are trying to lead thme.
7. Olmert Weigh's and Mull's
Marcel ,   Florida   (09.10.07)
Last month it was mulling the indicitment of Inciter Sheik Saleh ,but he decided to protect the enemt of Israel as the Incitiement law is only to be used against Jews. Now he wants to reward the Islamic terrorists again. This evil Olmert does not miss an opportunity to reward bad behavior and punish his own citizens. When have the Palestinians ever shown goodwill gestures in 14 years of this U.S. led peace farce ? More of the same failed gestures which only show Israeli weakness and stuppidity. It's always the U.S. who pressures weak,cowardly Israeli Prime ministers to give more to the terrorists for nothing ever in return. Why have not the good people of Israel put an end to this evil agenda which never bring peace but more dead Jews ?
8. Bibi is right on target
Brod ,   USA   (09.10.07)
Bibi is right on target on this issue. The Ayatollahs' nukes should be the greatest concern for the Free World. Bernard Lewis is right to say that MAD does not work with fanatics.
9. No Bibi, it's 2007, and Israelis are Blind Goats
Hani ,   Palestine Vagabond   (09.10.07)
10. Message to Nitinyahu and Zionist People
Wissam ,   Earth   (09.10.07)
""When it comes to a regime like Iran, our message must be: You will not have nuclear weapons, period," he added, receiving applause" The pinnacle of arrogance. 5 million jews must dictate the future of the ME and maintain nuclear monopoly over 300 million neighbors. No dummy, Iran will have nukes. And you will run away to New York. Palestine will go back to its owners: The Arab Palestinians.
11. Bibi, pull down the gov't so you can do what's needed
Shiloh ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (09.10.07)
Talk talk talk! Get this govt to elections, win, then you can implement all the talking. At least this time you spoke to a Jewish historian rather then the xtian Joel Rosenberg who will teach you nothing Jewish. Stay away from the xtian experts Bibi for the sake of Israel.
12. Netanyahu, you're living in 1939.
Richard ,   New York, USA   (09.10.07)
Iran has a history of never attacking another country first. So why should Israel be an aggressor and attack them? Netanyahu offers nothing to Israelis except hatred and war. What else does he know?
13. Wow
Duderino ,   Chapel Hill, USA   (09.10.07)
With crazy talk like this, Bibi makes Ahmedinejad look sane and intelligent. He has an extremely unhealthy contempt for history if he really believes that Iran resembles Germany in the late 1930's. The comparison is so patently absurd I almost can't believe he wasn't laughed off the stage. I have one question for Bibi. How many times has Iran attacked another country in the last 2 centuries? Answer: 0. How about Israel in just the last 60 years? Answer: 5. Remind me again, which country is the dangerous and aggressive towards its neighbors?
14. #7 the article is about Bibi not Olmert. Go peddle your crap
somewhere else- ,   like on another TB.   (09.10.07)
15. Bibi, you're panicking.
Khalid ,   Gaza City   (09.10.07)
Isn't it early to play your "we're in WWII" card? It's 2007, not 1939 and Iran isn't Germany, it's Iran. Get it through your fat head. Why not learn the history of IRAN'S previous wars (and how they started) to guage how they will act, instead of looking toward athiest Nazis to see what religious Muslims will do.
16. #15 We only need to turn on our TV's to see what you stupid
morons do!!!!!!   (09.10.07)
17. BibBi Statement on Iran
Reza Hashamian ,   Sheraz   (09.10.07)
I read recently an article byan Israeli in Australia who advised you to leave, he is wise.You are right the Mahadi and his people will be after you.You know it and you will be deafted by the Shites moslems
18. To # 15
Marty ,   USA   (09.10.07)
The Nazis were not Atheists, they were Pagans. And they were aligned with the Moslems (who fully participated in the holocaust), which is a Pagan religion e.g burn your children in the sacrificial fires.
19. Bibi
leon ,   Grand Rapids USA   (09.10.07)
Churchill was derided also....for many years, as he issued warning after warning. And look what happened !
20. #14
Marcel ,   Florida   (09.10.07)
You have nothing to say but go after me.That is very,very encouraging to me. It means you are reading what I am writing and it TROUBLE'S's you enough to respond ,not to the criminal Olmert or the backstabber Bush or the terrorist leader Abbas but me ??? A coward who is fearful to even leave his name does not deserve another response from me. \Go peddle your hate filled diatribe somwhere else cowardly cretian.
21. #20 Ooooo, u really stung me with those hate filled words!
Read that 1 Cor:13 ,   love chapter yet?   (09.10.07)
22. Attack Iran
Richard ,   London UK   (09.10.07)
What a great idea! let's attack Iran. After all the attack on Iraq went so well why not try it on Iran. Isreal does not have the right to dictate policy to Iran and can only do so because the US will back it up. Soon Bush will be gone and hopefully someone with some intelligence will take over in the US.
23. NOT again Mr. Netanyahu
Qman ,   London   (09.10.07)
I hope he doesn't mean it, he is right on Iranian nuclear weapons program but I hope Israel should not be involved in any millitary action against Iran, from my point of view Iran and its people will be good partner to Israel in the future and israel will be stranger than ever with Iran as a friend. don't look at Now, look at the future mr. netanyahu !
24. Mr. Bibi has never been good at Math or History!
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25. Bibi is right...
Rivkah   (09.10.07)
In many ways, the world IS like 1939.Russia has pulled out of the NATO Arms Treaty and has planted a flag in the Arctic to claim mineral rights there, possibly as a prelude to a war described in Ezekiel ch. 38 which will happen when Russian and Iran and other Moslem nations listed in Ezekiel ch. 38 attack Israel. Russia is Magag, Iran is Persia, Turkey is Togormah and has 140,000 troops ready for war at the Iraq border. Syria is not listed in that group of nations, so I wonder if Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah ch.17) before that war. Daniel in the Bible saw a war starting on the 24th day of the first month near the area of Basra at the Southern end of the Hidekel (Tigris) River. That could be Tishri 24 (Oct. 18 if in 2007) or Nisan 24, depending on the Jewish calendar he refered to (Moses or Babylon Calendar). Another war Ezekiel described in ch. 32 may be the same war Daniel saw: the multitude (military) of a young lion nation, divided by the rivers, meted (squared off land parcels), and peeled (shaven) is destroyed by a sword of the king of Babylon (wmd's from Iraq). Then there is the Red China problem, outlined in the book of China's war plans against America called "Unrestricted Warfare" written by two Red Chinese colonels which will ultimately end in a 200 million man army marching on the Middle East according to book of Revelation or Apocalypse of Rabbi Yeshua's followers. The book "Unretricted Warfare" says Red China trained the Moslem pilots for the 9/11 attack in NYC.
26. Rivkah
Richard ,   London UK   (09.10.07)
you what? Thank heaven you don't have your finger on the button.
27. Iran can´t win
Alexander ,   Herzliya, Israel   (09.10.07)
Iran´s navy, army and air force are hopelessly old fashioned, supplied by the Russians decades ago, and the same thing goes with the Syrians. There might be some exceptions, but on the over all level, those two countries´ navies, armies and air forces are unmodern, outmoded, inefficient and old fashioned. Israel on the other hand, has a very modern, updated, efficient and lethal navy, army and air force, as has been proved by the fact that the Arab world as a whole, has not launched big scale wars and campaigns for decades against Israel - not from love but from fear. Despite the fact that Israel is superior militarily, economically, scientifically and technologically, Israel has yet shown no intentions to enslave, conquer or annihilate neither the Arab world nor Iran. If you have superior strength and don´t use it against your enemies, it means that you are friendly and peaceful. Nazi Germany was superior in strength to Europe in 1939 and that is the reason why it defeated most armies in the beginning. And the reason it fell is because it could not on its own fight both USSR and the USA. The USA was stronger and won and delivered peace, prosperity and democracy to Germany, Japan and Italy. This can be proven by the fact that all these countries are democratic and that Japan is the 2nd and Germany is the 3rd largest economy in the world. If Nazi Germany would have won, the entire world would have fallen into the abyss of slavery, despotism, genocide and darkness. The same thing would happen if the USSR would dominate the world today. Strenght itself is not good or bad -power is a measurement of influence but is no indication of your moral compass. The fact that Israel is the sole nuclear power in the Middle East doesn´t mean Israel is bad. Has Israel ever used the nukes against Iran and the Arab world? No. Do the Arabs and Iranians still exist? Yes. The fact that Israel still is free and still exists is not because the Arabs and the Iranians have changed their minds. It´s because Israel has the strenght and power and the Arabs and the Iranians don´t. The "arrogance" of Israel as the anti-Semites here refer to it, is not about demanding equal rights for all nations - it´s about annihilating Jews from the face of the earth by denying the Jews same right to live and exist as free men, women and children, living with freedom, rights and dignity in their ancestral land of Israel, which has 4000 years of Jewish/Israelite history - national rights that most nations take for granted. If the Iranians were peaceful and democratic like Israel and the West, Iranian nukes would not be an issue.
28. I suspect that...
Alexander ,   Herzliya, Israel   (09.10.07)
...Richard in New York, USA, and Richard in London UK is one and the same person, using two different identities and creating the illusion that he is two different individuals. Both "Richards" have the same name and the same anti-Israeli attitude. Coincidence? Not likely. And I suppose Israel is very "cruel" and "undemocratic" letting Richard spewing his anti-Semitic venom - in an Israeli newspaper...
29. Benjamin Netanyahu is crazy!!
Steve   (09.10.07)
I hope his views aren't shared by most Israeli's because this is just madness. Israel get your Country back from the madmen before its too late!
30. Mine Kempf is synonamous with Jihad (Self Struggle)
mike ,   USA   (09.10.07)
I personly think it should be translated "personal problem".But Hitler, like the muslims, thought that his "self struggle" (or as I like to call it "personal Problem") should be the concern of the world. The two have much in common and everything to do with each other.
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