Washington – Diane Feinstein, the Democratic senator from California, told CNN on Sunday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contention that he is speaking for all Jews in lobbying against an agreement between the US and Iran is “arrogant.”
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Netanyahu, upon boarding a plane to Washington for what his office says will be a historic address to Congress, said Sunday that he is going as an “emissary of all the citizens of Israel, even those who don’t agree with me, and the entire Jewish people.”
Netanyahu, whose speech has triggered a great deal of friction with the White House said, “I am greatly concerned about the security of the citizens of Israel and I will do what is necessary in order to ensure our future.”
“He doesn’t speak for me on this,” Feinstein told CNN’s State of the Union. “I think it’s a rather arrogant statement. I think the Jewish community is like any other community. There are different points of view. I think that arrogance does not befit, Israel, candidly.”
The senator said that she will attend Netanyahu’s speech, even though some of her Democratic colleagues plan to stay away in protest to what they feel is the Israeli premier’s overt undermining of President Barack Obama and his administration.
“I intend to go, and I’ll listen respectfully,” she said. “I don’t intend to jump up and down.”
I am pro the speech but I agree with Diane that he doesn’t speak for me !
We need to stop and realize that in the end as pm of Israel bibi speaks for each and every one of us enogh said
Spoken like he ersatz new she is.
Hey Diane they’ll put you in the same cattle car with me no matter what you say. FOOL
Diane! who ever said he speaks for you? he speaks for Jews who have a jewish heart not for biological Jews who would sacrifice 7 million of their brothers and sisters in order to circle the wagon and carry the water for their beloved, incompetent president.
When Netanyahu said he speaks “for all the Jewish people”, I doubt he was referring to a liberal self hating Jew, which is merely Jewish because her parents were…
Don’t worry he doesn’t intend to speak for you. When the Iranian nuclear missiles are pointing at you he will remind you that he didn’t speak for you
This is sad that pure politics is standing in the way of common sense
Whom does she think she’s fooling, with her criticism of Netanyahu?
She’s Obam’s Tail Bone!
A DEMOCRAT!
As long as she is a Democrat, spinning off Obama’s Tail, we already know what she thinks.
Anyone who is a Democrat does not think with their head but with their opposite end – They think with their Tail – They think with Obama’s Tail.
The one descriptive word “a democrat” says it all.
Anyone who spins off, of Obam’s Tail, must auto_Puppet “the party line”.
Obama seems to be a gilgul of Neville Chamberlain.As dangerous as warfare was in those days, it is only more so today. However, a speech that has caused so much contention, will probably not advance the cause of Israel.
hey Feinstein,you don’t speakfor me or any normal Jew. You are a court fool of 0bama. read that zero obama. You are selling JEWS down the drain for a fanatic anti-semitie
i guess AlterG and dianne feinstein are one in the same on some level
According to her biographical information, here mother was a Russian American Christian woman for whom there is no information as to whether she ever converted. The senator’s pre-college education was at a Catholic school. Notwithstanding her three Jewish husbands, it is highly likely that Senator Feinstein is not mi-shelanu. So let’s not assume that the senator speaks for all Jews….
Diane Feinstein is not Jewish. She underwent a non-Torah phony conversion to marry a Jewish man.
Netanyahu doesn’t speak for Diane Feinstein because she’s not Jewish. Her mother was Russian Orthodox Catholic, and she attended Catholic schools. Just Google, folks.
Diane Finsternisht doesnt speak for me either. It’s a shame the Democrats don’t understand we are allowed to have our own opinions.
I supported you in the past. I am now sorry for that. You turned into an obama lackey.
It’s time for you to go.
You may be the Senator of my state but you don’t speak for me.
You have a Jewish name but you are not Jewish and you do not speak for Jews. You have become senile.
It’s time for you to go.
I’m so disappointed in you.
Netanyahu may speak for many many Jews but there are also many many thousands of Jews who want nothing to do with Netanyahu with Israel and Zionism.
Netanyahu lies when he says he speaks as an emissary for all Jews.
Netanyahu has chutzpah to spit in the face of an American president
Its a Shanda that there are Jews in this great country who support Netanyahu over Obama who is our president.
Hey # 22, Just like Bibi does not speak for you, Obummer is not my president!
Why doesn’t this hag retire already!
So if the Prime Minister of Israel can’t speak for Israel (and Israel is the Jewish Homeland) then who do you think speaks for the Jews? The Black Caucus?
There are so many other politicians to bash the Prime Minister of Israel. Do you have to be the main one bashing him all day? Shut up already!
All she is ‘self hating jewis, who’s husband survived on government contracts
She is arrogant to say she’s Jewish
I have a hard time giving any credit to Obama’s administration who are tying the Israeli’s arms behind their back, reportedly telling them they would shoot down the Israeli planes if they tried to bomb Iran (see arutz sheva). So all you anonymous people that say Bibi should just go bomb Iran should just go get your heads checked. He needs to at least show the traitor to world security that this administration is so that he has some show of support in the world. Well, I guess if we are “safe” with Big Sam that will always protect us from all harm, who gives about a few Jews in Israel. I think that’s what most secular Jews said about the War of Independence when the Jews were close to annihilation and had to beg some pompous Americans for a few dollars. There is no sense of Ahavas Yisroel these days, no care for the fear another Jew faces. Let them all come to America! Who needs Israel? This is our real land. Makes me kind of want to puke.
I only trust Charlie McCarthy to speak for me.
“He doesn’t speak for me on this,” Feinstein told CNN’s State of the Union. “I think it’s a rather arrogant statement. I think the Jewish community is like any other community. There are different points of view. I think that arrogance does not befit, Israel, candidly.”
A cat that lives next to my house is more Jewish than an arrogant liberal idiot Feinstein, what a disgrace she is, to her state, to USA and Jewish people!
Of course Netanyahu doesn’t speak for me. No secular/conservative/reform/modernorthoduff does. But how could he possibly speak for some shiksa Diane? And why would he want too?
Here is a condensed but very clear description of the shiksa’s below humble origins:
Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman in San Francisco, to Betty (née Rosenburg), a former model, and Leon Goldman, a surgeon. Feinstein’s paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Poland, while her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburg family, from Saint Petersburg Russia, were of Jewish or German(?) ancestry but were of the Russian Orthodox faith.