Dennis Ross: Netanyahu should admit decision to address Congress was a mistake

[Jefferson23]

Ross acknowledges as have other pro-settlement supporters that Bibi
may reap more than he bargained for..of course Ross is not interested in
the fact that Netanyahu is to bring utter bullshit to bear regarding Iran.
Note how he is aware of the change in demographics for support of
Israeli policy toward Palestinians..he is correct on that score.

“We will all rue that day,” if Israel becomes a partisan issue in the United States, former U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert Dennis Ross said on Tuesday at the Haaretz Israel Conference on Democracy.

“You don’t do business that way,” Ross said, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month, which has led to a deep rift with the Obama administration. “And when you make a mistake, admit it.”

Bipartisanism has allowed support for Israel to flourish in the U.S., Ross stressed, and “the last thing you want to do is have Israel become a partisan issue – especially at a time of demographic change in America.”

He pointed out that demographic change meant that “in another 20 years, communities such as the African-Americans, the Asian-Americans and the Hispanics will constitute the majority in the U.S.” Those communities, he said, “do not have an historic connection with Israel. And so Israel as a democracy becomes even more important for those kind of communities.”

in full: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.642958

[Ken Burch]

1. Netanyahu would have to believe it was a mistake to admit it was a mistake.

Netanyahu still doesn't accept that his fellow Republican lost the 2012 presidential election, and he still hasn't given up on his insane insistence on bombing (therefore automatically causing full-scale war with)Iran.

He wants "creative destruction". but without the creativity part.