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Mexico sides with Israel

Very good news:

Mexico says it will henceforth vote with Israel in international bodies. Netanyahu thanks Mexican leadership for refusing to go along with ‘one-sided’ resolutions against Jewish state

Mexico reportedly has announced that it will change its voting strategy at the UN and other international bodies by putting a stop to votes in favor of Palestinian resolutions, reported the UnitedWithIsrael website last Wednesday.

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Figari contacted Israeli Ambassador to Mexico Yoni Pelad and told him of the shift in strategy for upcoming voting related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.

The declaration was made two months after Netanyahu visited Mexico during a trip to Latin America that also included Argentina and Colombia.

Israel has sent Mexico substantial humanitarian aid at times of need, most recently after the September earthquake. I’m glad to see Mexico corresponding.

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Argentina: Netanyahu visits

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is touring South America, with a first stop in Argentina.

John Batchelor radio:

Netanyahu arrived Monday, marking the first visit to Latin America by an Israeli leader since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948. He is also scheduled to visit Colombia and Mexico before going to New York, where he will address the UN General Assembly on September 26.


A few headlines,

Netanyahu: Argentina has gone from hostility to friendship with Israel.

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Netanyahu’s thunderous silence and the West’s moral vacuum

While Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power busied themselves in a video conference with Pres. Obama, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a most powerful speech, which you can watch in full:

Read my post on Netanyahu’s thunderous silence and the West’s moral vacuum.

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Today’s big story: Iran’s nukes

Drudge juxtaposes:

IT’S A DEAL…
‘Smile diplomacy’ secures…
OBAMA WARNS CONGRESS: HANDS OFF…
Gambles on foreign policy legacy…
May Take Years to Pay Off…
NETANYAHU: ‘Historic Mistake for World’…
‘Surrender by West’…
Iran given ‘license to kill’…
‘VULNERABLE TO UNRAVELING’…
Death to America; Deal with America…
KRISTOL: This cannot stand…
House Intelligence Chairman: Paves Way for Bomb…
ROUHANI: ‘God has accepted nation’s prayers’…
Centrifuges Continue to Spin…

IRAN CELEBRATES

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement,

When you are willing to make an agreement at any cost, this is the result. From the initial reports we can already conclude that this agreement is an historic mistake for the world.

Far-reaching concessions have been made in all areas that were supposed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. In addition, Iran will receive hundreds of billions of dollars with which it can fuel its terror machine and its expansion and aggression throughout the Middle East and across the globe.

One cannot prevent an agreement when the negotiators are willing to make more and more concessions to those who, even during the talks, keep chanting: ‘Death to America.’

We knew very well that the desire to sign an agreement was stronger than anything, and therefore we did not commit to preventing an agreement.

We did commit to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and this commitment still stands.

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Text of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress UPDATED with VIDEO

Politico says that Netanyahu wowed Congress, and they describe the speech as “muscular”.

The Lid summarizes the speech’s salient points on Israel’s right to exist, territorial concession, Palestinian right of return, and the 1967 borders.

UPDATE:
Video,

Full text of the speech below the fold,
(more…)

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