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Netanyahu shows D.C. liberals why he’s the 'armor-plated bullshitter’

Instead of admitting his opposition to a Palestinian state, Netanyahu twisted the concept beyond recognition.

By Peter Beinart | Nov. 11, 2015 | 12:57 PM | 

This week, the staff at the Center for American Progress learned why Tony Blair’s foreign ministry nicknamed Benjamin Netanyahu “the armor-plated bullshitter.” And why former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called him a “liar." And why former Clinton administration spokesperson Joe Lockhart said, “He could open his mouth and you could have no confidence that anything that came out of it was the truth.”

CAP, an influential progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., invited Netanyahu to speak, and again and again, Israel’s prime minister said things that just aren’t true.

It began when CAP President Neera Tanden asked Bibi about his statement, on the eve of Israel’s election earlier this year, that, “The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls.” Netanyahu responded that, “You should know that Arab voted for me… they voted for me in considerably larger numbers than they voted for the Labor Party. I was not referring to going to vote, I was speaking about a specific list that was opposed” to my policies.http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.685437