Scarlet letters for the Bibi boycotters
By Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld.
This opinion piece appeared in the New York Post February 26, 2015.
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld
Their excuses are mere protocol — that the upcoming Israeli election supposedly makes the speech political, and that Speaker John Boehner did not consult the White House before inviting the prime minister.
In fact, Iran has been at the top of Israel’s threat list for nearly two decades.
Nor is Netanyahu’s opposition in that election any more willing to embrace an agreement that, like the one the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran, clearly leads to Iranian development of nuclear weapons.
Any member of Congress who boycotts the address will present himself as placing protocol above national security for the American people and our allies.
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“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
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