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September 28, 2012

Get Ready for Debate on Bibi's 'Red Lines'

Benny Avni, New York Post

AP Photo

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stunned the UN General Assembly yesterday with a placard depicting a bomb, then using a red marker to draw a line near the top.

The crude cartoon, reminiscent of a Wile E Coyote “Acme” bomb, went viral — a huge hit among Bibi’s admirers and detractors far beyond the UN halls.

The image, and the argument behind it, will surely figure in the Oct. 22 Obama-Romney foreign-policy debate.

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TAGGED: 2012, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Iran, Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu

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