"Rose grew more and more impatient with the prime minister. At minute 33, {of the 53 minute program} he busts Netanyahu over the settlements, as undermining the security of the Jewish state. {click here for the Rose interview}
"Rose: You can't make the case that settlements, which you have continued...are essential for the security of the Jewish state. They may do damage to the security of the Jewish state... The question is, most people want to ask... Why is it necessary... I still don't understand why you think that building settlements in East Jerusalem is necessary... when the world believes its stand in the way...
"Netanyahu: The world believes a lot of things, but the world doesn't get it.
"Rose: I think the American president believes that".They stand in the way of a solution"
"Netanyahu: Charlie you're not going to escape this..I gotcha.
"Rose, bristling: No you don't have me."
David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, wrote in the Israeli daily Haaretz about the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani:
"Simply implying, for instance, that anyone who sits down with Rouhani is a modern-day Neville Chamberlain or Edouard Daladier won't do the trick. To the contrary, it will only give offense and alienate."
Roger Cohen has had just about enough of Netanyahu's "tired Iranian lines." He began his column on Netanyahu's speech at the UN:
"Never has it been more difficult for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to convince the world that, as he put it in 2006: 'It's 1938. Iran is Germany.' He tried again at the United Nations this week. In a speech that strained for effect, he likened Iran to a 20th-century 'radical regime' of 'awesome power.' That would be the Third Reich."
To these troubled respondents, add the name of John B. Judis, who wrote in the New Republic these carefully honed condemnations of Netanyahu. The most scathing of Judis' bill of particulars against Netanyahu is his assertion that Netanyahu "echoes" the rhetoric of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Over the next year, Netanyahu could be proven correct in his apocalyptical assessment of Rouhani and the Iranians. But his speech was inflammatory, deeply one-sided, and hyperbolic in its assessment of Iran's recent history.
"If there is a genuine chance for fruitful negotiations between the G5+1 and Iran over Iran's nuclear program -- and President Obama clearly thinks there is -- then Netanyahu's bellicose rhetoric probably made success less likely by giving credence to the fears of Iran's hardliners.
"In its tenor, Netanyahu's denunciation of Iran and its new president echoed former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denunciation of the United States and Israel before the UN in September 2011."
These are strong signs to those who will listen, that Netanyahu and his present government's policies, are no longer selling well on the U.S. media market.
Change is in the air. In a touch of diplomatic irony, history will record that the word "change," in this current moment, originated with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. as I reported in a previous Wall Writings posting:
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