ADL Chief Abe Foxman Calls on Benjamin Netanyahu To Scrap Speech to GOP Congress

[DonViejo]

ADL Chief Wants Israel Premier To End 'Circus'

By Nathan Guttman
Published February 06, 2015.

WASHINGTON D.C. — As the controversy surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu speech to Congress reaches new heights, one of the Jewish community’s top leaders is calling on the Israeli prime minister to stay home.

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti Defamation League said that the political uproar ignited by Netanyahu’s invitation to speak to a joint meeting of Congress makes such a move unhelpful and therefore it should be scrapped.

“It’s a tragedy of unintended consequences,” Foxman told the Forward, describing how the idea of presenting Israel’s view on Iran spiraled out of control, reaching even the Jon Stewart show, a step, Foxman said, that “turned the whole thing into a circus.”

“One needs to restart, and it needs a mature adult statement that this was not what we intended,” Foxman told the Forward. He said that going ahead as planned with the speech would be counter-productive, with all attention given to the political controversy rather than to the issue at stake. “It has been hijacked by politics,” Foxman said. “Now is a time to recalibrate, restart and find a new platform and new timing to take away the distractions.”

Foxman noted that he does not dispute the seriousness of the Iranian nuclear issue and that he agrees with Netanyahu on the need to strengthen sanctions against Tehran, but he argued that recent events have derailed the initial intention of Netanyahu’s address to Congress.


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[jaysunb]

1. I need a "fainting couch !"

Abe Foxman ? smh

[procon]

2. It was never anything BUT a political move.

Each for their own motives, Netanyahu and Boehner thought they could pull a fast one and engineer this mini coup to force the President of the United States to capitulate to their demands. They stacked the deck in their favor and they still lost. All that remains is to get a good seat to watch the forthcoming media circus as these two amateur raconteurs try to fillet each other before the next bus drives by.

[Vic Tree]

3. Foxman is an American

He knows Bibi's speech will result in massive erosion of support for Israel here. This is sad, really, because the problem isn't Israel itself, but the group of fascist thugs now running it.

[Iliyah]

8. MSM doesn't think so, they are already spewing it's the DEMs who

will have to do damage control.

[erronis]

4. Note that he only cares that it was "turned into a circus"

Of course it was a dog-and-pony circus from the beginning. Boner and Bibi - the performing clowns.

Now that a large part (20%?) of the 'merican public even knows that this was happening, and that the media was having a good goad at the spectacle, now is the time that some ADL spokesperson cares.

We really can't be mocking some furrin interference in our internal affairs, can we?

[DonCoquixote]

5. Mr. Foxman

I do aprpeciate that you are trying to do the right thing, but the Zionist lobby, aided by me netanyahu, has already uncorked the genies from the bottle.

[Cha]

6. Mahalo DV

[DearAbby]

7. Insulting the President of the United States is not a circus.

had this been anyone other than PRESIDENT Obama?