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David Horovitz
Times of Israel
ublicly savaged by President
Barack Obama for his settlement
policies on the previous Sunday,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
Tuesday, March 3, opted for a firmly non-
personal response in a warmly received
address to the AIPAC Policy Conference
in Washington, D.C.
Obama, in the lengthy interview
with Bloomberg News' Jeffrey Goldberg
released precisely as Netanyahu was
flying in to meet with him, assailed the
prime minister for overseeing "aggressive
settlement construction:' indicated that
Netanyahu's positions on the Palestinian
conflict were threatening Israel's wellbe-
ing and warned that the U.S. would find
it increasingly difficult to defend Israel
from the international consequences.
Netanyahu, having since joined the
president at the White House on the
day before, opted to tell AIPAC Tuesday
morning that he had held "very good
meetings" with Obama and other senior
American leaders (the only time he
named Obama in the speech), insisted
that he was ready to conclude "a historic
peace" with the Palestinians and hailed
the uniquely "precious alliance" between
the United States and Israel.
He also chose to heap praise on Secre-
tary of State John Kerry, who must have
been deeply dismayed by the president's
decision to so openly question the poli-
cies of a prime minister he has spent
months trying to win over and reassure.
Strikingly, the issue of settlement
building — raised repeatedly by the
president in his Sunday interview as the
apparent key obstacle to real progress
and the key threat to Israel's future —
received not a single mention in either
Kerry's address or Netanyahu's.
Although Netanyahu eschewed direct
confrontation with Obama, he argued
emphatically against the president's
stances on both Iran and the Palestinians.
Where Obama promises to ensure that
Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons,
Netanyahu insisted that the challenge "is
not just to prevent them from having the
weapon, but to prevent them from hav-
ing the capacity to make the weapon:'
Where Obama says he can envisage
Iran retaining an enrichment capacity
under a permanent accord on its nuclear
program, Netanyahu said that to allow
this would be "a grave error:' It would
leave Iran capable of breaking out a
bomb when the world's attention was
focused elsewhere and would "open the
floodgates" to nuclear proliferation.
Seventeen countries worldwide have
peaceful nuclear programs, Netanyahu
said, without spinning centrifuges, heavy
water reactors, subterranean nuclear
facilities and missile research. He stressed
that Israel backs a diplomatic deal, pro-
vided it truly dismantles Iran's military
nuclear capabilities. But he warned that
the Jewish nation "will never be brought
to the brink of extinction again" and
that he would do "whatever I must do to
defend the Jewish State of Israel."
Netanyahu set out an optimistic vision
of thriving relations among Israel and
parts of the Arab world — citing the
potential of a combination "of Israeli
innovation and Gulf entrepreneurship"
and declaring that Israel's water expertise
could better the lives of hundreds of mil-
lions — if only a deal could be done.
But whereas Obama had touted
Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas as a leader demon-
strably "committed to nonviolence and
diplomatic efforts to resolve" the conflict,
Netanyahu was far more skeptical. He
received a standing ovation when he
called on the Palestinians to "stop deny-
ing history" and urged Abbas to "recog-
nize the Jewish state:'
Netanyahu also highlighted Israel's
ongoing security concerns in an "unrav-
eling" Middle East. Israel simply could
not afford to bet its security "on our
fondest hopes:' If a peace deal could be
signed, it would certainly come under
attack from extremists, and international
forces could not be trusted to secure
Israel because they "go home" when
under repeated attack. Only "the brave
soldiers" of the IDF could truly defend
Israel, he said.
In addition, Netanyahu's redefini-
tion of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment,
Sanctions) movement as "Bigotry,
Dishonesty and Shame and his callout
for Scarlett Johansson (who stood by
SodaStream under BDS pressure), gar-
nered much enthusiasm.
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