In the midst of media coverage of the government
shutdown (it’s the Republicans’ fault!) and the glitch-filled rollout of
Obamacare (it’s not Obama’s fault!), Americans may not have noticed the
October 1 speech by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the
United Nations General Assembly. But Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel
was prepared to act alone to prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring
nuclear weapons may well prove of more lasting significance than the
developments in Washington that overshadowed it.
Netanyahu
tried to puncture the wishful thinking that has made the Obama
administration so eager to succumb to the charm offensive of Hassan
Rouhani, the new Iranian president. Netanyahu pointed out that Rouhani
has done nothing, and almost certainly will do nothing, that warrants
trusting that the Iranian regime will yield in its pursuit of nuclear
weapons (a pursuit Rouhani still denies in the face of mountains of
incontrovertible evidence). Netanyahu warned against a relaxation of
pressure on that regime and against being dragged into endless
negotiations or, even worse, a bad deal with it. Join The Patriot Guard