Netanyahu: Arab world moving backward, not forward

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Prime Minister says he fears the collapse of Jordanian Hashemite monarchy, reiterates absolute refusal to make concessions to Palestinians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the Arab Spring revolutions and accused the Arab world of "moving not forward, but backward."

In his sharpest Knesset comment since the wave of uprisings swept out of Tunisia and across the Arab states in January, Netanyahu expressed his complete contempt for the Arab people's ability to sustain democratic regimes, and his nostalgia for Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt. He said he feared the collapse of Jordan's Hashemite monarchy and also reiterated his absolute refusal to make any concessions to the Palestinians.

"In February, when millions of Egyptians thronged to the streets in Cairo, commentators and quite a few Israeli members of the opposition said that we're facing a new era of liberalism and progress...They said I was trying to scare the public and was on the wrong side of history and don't see where things are heading," he said.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/netanyahu-arab-world-moving-backward-not-forward-1.397353

[provis99]

1. Get off my lawn, you Arab kids!

whatever, Bebe.

[cliffordu]

2. Hey, Nettin' Yahoo!!!

Fuck off you idiot.

[aranthus]

3. No, they're continuing to move forward right off the cliff. n/t