10/29/2014

Netanyahu 'chickenshit', say US officials in explosive interview

“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” said one official quoted in the Atlantic. “The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars. The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states.
“The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he’s not [Ariel] Sharon, he’s certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He’s got no guts.”

2 comments:

  1. "Israel’s far-right economics minister, Naftali Bennett, used his Facebook page to call for Washington to renounce the comments:" That just tickles me no end ... used his Facebook page ...

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  2. Bibi was never a military lifer like so many before him.
    He is a political purist.
    A master of war that sits behind the comfort of his desk.

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