Netanyahu’s speech on Iran once again proved that he is more dangerous than Olmert. Bibi was saying ridiculous things, but media and the voters approve of him. Netanyahu tacitly supported Sharon’s destruction of Jewish settlements until the last days before it was carried out. At that time, Netanyahu’s demarche of leaving the government meant nothing. To say that Bibi is indecisive is charitable. If elected prime minister, Netanyahu would dance to the US tune, and continue the peace process, releasing the Jewish lands to Palestinians. Unlike the discredited Olmert, Netanyahu enjoys some esteem among Israelis and will garner support for disengagement. He only demands toppling the Hamas government in order to negotiate with PLO-Fatah “based on reciprocity.” As if the Palestinians could offer Israel anything worth Judea.

Netanyahu’s earlier comparison of Iran with Nazi Germany is off the mark. Iran is the Muslim country most tolerant to the Jews and the only country still having considerable and consent Jewish population. According to the Neturei Karta’s Friedman, Ahmadinejad offered the Jews religious autonomy in Palestine; the account is entirely believable. Whatever are the Iranian intentions regarding Israel, they differ from Nazi’.

Netanyahu offered unrealistic solution to the Iranian nuclear development: voluntary divestment by international corporations. If that’s all he has in his sleeve, it wasn’t worth announcing. Bibi calls on the American pension funds to stop investing in companies that do business in Iran. Such divestment is unprecedented and unenforceable: money could go through holding and front companies or many other investment vessels, completely obliterating any ties to Iran. That policy, even if carried out, is exceedingly long-term and unlikely to bring results: the companies which invest in Iran won’t pull out just because the American pension funds sell their shares.

Netanyahu disgustingly compares Israel’s only reliable ally, the white South Africa, with Iran in discussing the sanctions.  It’s a pity that world’s sanctions crushed benevolent colonizing regime in South Africa, and now the indigenous population has ruined the paradise country.

Netanyahu’s another idea, convicting Ahmadinejad of the incitement to genocide, lacks precedent or legal foundation. No country’s leader was convicted on such shaky ground, and it’s not clear whether the Geneva Convention treats political speech as incitement. Even if carried out, the trial would take years and the sentence will be unenforceable. Ahmadinejad called for wiping Israel off the map; many Israelis inluding myself call for taking Palestine and possibly Jordan off the map. That’s not genocide but rejection of sovereignty and perhaps ethnic cleansing.