It is all about politics

In his speech to the American Congress today, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,  said: “Alliance between the USA and Israel should be above Politics.”

Really Mr. Netanyahu!!!! It is all about politics. When the prime minister chose to address the American Congress two weeks before the Israeli elections, and when his main focus in the speech was Iran, and the negotiations going on between it and the USA, he is indeed making a political statement. The mere fact that the invitation to Mr. Netanyahu to address the congress was not coordinated with President Obama is again a political statement. It is ironic that the Prime Minister whose country could not have been established or could have survived without the support of the USA and its presidents, including Mr. Obama, finds it fit to barge into this  controversial scene and split the congress and the administration.

Like puppets orchestrated by a cue to stand up and clap, I felt sorry for my American friends and the good people in the USA whose congress has been taken for a ride.  Thanks to those who had enough dignity to stay on their seats.   But  above all I felt sorry for my own people, the Palestinians who put their faith in a peace broker who is just as ‘occupied’ as we are; if not physically, certainly psychologically. Mr. Netanyahu is the last person to talk about the subject of nuclear weapons, sounding like he was “holier than thou,” especially in view of the fact that Israel itself was the first and only country in the region, to have a nuclear reactor as well as a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Over and above it has not signed the nonproliferation agreement, nor does it allow inspectors to visit the site.

Nobody could have listed the possibilities that could come up as a result of Iran developing nuclear weapons in a more clear rhetoric than the Prime Minister himself, because he sounded like he was actually talking about his own country.