NETANYAHU ANSWERS BRITISH INTERVIEWER - AGAIN!

An e-mail going around, and being quoted on several blogs, has Benyamin Netanyahu answering a question on British Television very well indeed.

The problem is that the interview, if it ever even took place, was in 2006. The question did not deal with Palestinians fatalities in Gaza in 2009, as is being quoted, but Lebanese fatalities a little bit further north, in 2006.


Circulated quote:

* Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, could get a good measure of satisfaction from this interview with British Television this week. I guess it can be attributed to Minister Netanyahu's days studying history at Harvard.
The interviewer asked him: "How come so many more Palestinians have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?"
Netanyahu: "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?"
Interviewer: "Why not?"
Netanyahu: "Because in World War II more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression. And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima. Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children . Perhaps you have another question?" *


Bibi's answer is quite to the point. And very pointed.

I note, however, that the same exchange was recorded in 2006.

See here:
http://hezbollahwar.blogspot.com/2006/08/well-answered-even-those-who-arent.html

And here:
http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/17

And also here:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2006/08/must-watch-netanyahu-interview.html


And several places elsewhere on the internet.


I am not entirely surprised that the material above is being spammed forward now. It is good stuff. Apposite, and appropriate. But it is not germane or timely.