Israel and the United States are BFFs. Best Friends Forever. So the leader of the “free world,” US President Barack Obama, can count among his closest allies Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…Bibi, the man who, when speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) earlier this week, compared Iran to a duck.
That’s right. A Nuclear Duck.
I wasn’t expecting much from Netanyahu. His September 2011 address to the United Nations was full of half-truths, outright lies, and distortions of history as well as current politics. Ditto for his May 2011 speech to US Congress.
But a duck?
I can’t help but wonder if Netanyahu’s speechwriter wants a raise. Maybe he or she is pissed off and—for revenge—he or she worked in the kindergarten-esque duck references. Or, maybe, someone stole the text and added the duck bit as a joke.
Or does the low-brow wording simply reflect the Israeli administration’s view of the AIPAC crowd? Or Americans in general? After all, Netanyahu, “calling a duck a duck” in 2001, remarked that “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction.”
h/t Jared Malsin.
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XYZ
Muslim preachers regularly compare Jews to pigs and apes which is a far more insidious comparison than is a duck in Islamic tradition.
If they can do things like that, why can’t we? Are we supposed to be “better” than them, or something?
mya guarnieri
XYZ! a sense of humor!
YOSFA
Well that’s the kind of rhetoric that resonates with american public and they can relate too – overtly simple and 2 dimensional, otherwise, they feel they are being walked into something they dont understand, regardless of whether such complexity is there or not,
remeber Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’?…bibi’s speech writer really knows his audience,
Musa
Mya,
You should check out the Daily Show’s coverage of that. Pretty hilarious.
James B - Montreal
When muslims compare Jews to pigs adn monkees no doubt Mya is agreeing with them. She writes for morally worthless mags as long as she bashes Israel. Why should I give a damnabout Palestinians? Their standard of living is better than any arab group in any muslim country. Furthermore why is there no mention by Mya about the illegal occupation of Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, Bahamas, etcc.. Mya writes for mags that yearn for Israel’s destruction. It would be foolish and naive to think so.
I would suggest we invest in Persian carpets. Nuclear free carpets.
Why are you so pro Iran and “Palestine?” What kind of flu jew are you? A self hating white skinned ” ash kan nazi”.
Your family benefited from stealing land from the seminole indians/ Are you aware of that?
directrob
see also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17287860
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Maybe the last duck speech?
kafantaris
Time for Netanyahu to take a vacation.
His friends and family should insist on it.
Danny
If he looks like an idiot, talks like an idiot and has an idiotic nickname, what is he? Time to call an idiot an idiot.
Fredrick
Really? He’s not making fun of Iranians? He’s making a comparison to a duck to the fact that Iran HAS nuclear weapons. He’s saying that if something looks like a “duck”, walks like a “duck”, and sounds like a “duck”, then that’s what it is. If it looks like Iran has nukes, and sounds like it etc then they have nuclear weapons. He’s not being disrespectful to to them and isn’t comparing them to ducks at all. Ignorance.