Here you go Jeff this author is a Jew too
It's Unanimous!
Fed Up With Netanyahu
by URI AVNERY
âYOU CAN lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time.â
This slightly altered quotation from Abraham Lincoln has yet to be absorbed by Binyamin Netanyahu. He thinks it doesnât apply to him. Actually, that is the core of his entire political career.
This week, he was given a very instructive lesson. After being treated to dozens of cordial encounters between Netanyahu and Nicholas Sarkozy, Israeli TV viewers got a glimpse of reality. It came in the form of an exchange of views between the presidents of the US and of France.
Sarkozy: âI cannot stand him (Netanyahu). He is a liar!â
Obama: âYOU are fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!â
That came after it was leaked that Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, told her cabinet that âevery word that leaves Netanyahuâs mouth is a lie.â
Which makes it more or less unanimous.
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BEFORE PROCEEDING, I must say something about the media angle of this affair.
The dialogue was broadcast live to a group of senior French media people, because somebody forgot to turn the microphone off. A piece of luck of the kind that journalists dream about.
Yet not one of the journalists in the hall published a word about it. They kept it to themselves and only told it to their colleagues, who told it to their friends, one of whom told it to a blogger, who published it.
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