Posted on 03/23/2015 10:37:25 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The Obama administration toed a hard line Monday against Benjamin Netanyahu for his comments about Israeli Arabs and Palestinian statehood leading up to Israels election last week, but downplayed concerns over death to America remarks Irans supreme leader made over the weekend.
The White House also seemed to warmly welcome input from 367 House members reiterating Congress role in reaching a final nuclear agreement with Tehran, despite its vigorous attacks on an earlier letter to the Iranian leadership from 47 GOP senators explaining that any deal Iran may strike with the U.S. needs to be submitted to Congress to be binding.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Mr. Netanyahu was right to apologize for rallying his supporters by saying too many Arabs were voting but that Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khameneis remarks merely underscore why it is so critically important that the U.S. and other world powers succeed in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
While he suggested anti-American language from Iran is something Washington can wait to deal with after the achievement of a potential nuclear agreement with Tehran, Mr. Earnest said Mr. Netanyahu needed to move quickly toward assuring Israeli Arabs that no harm was meant by his election-eve pronouncements against them.
Mr. Netanyahu has repeatedly made clear his disgust with the parameters of the administrations ongoing talks with Tehran on its nuclear program, and this has led to several testy exchanges, a controversial speech by the Israeli leader to Congress and Democratic political operatives traveling to Israel to work against Mr. Netanyahu in his re-election campaign.
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Perhaps if he wore a bunny suit and groveled?
Here we go again. Delusional as usual. How long before he is forced to resign?
[Obama downplays Iran death to America remarks, toes hard line on Netanyahu]
Obama hates Christians and Jews. Pretty simple.
How would he feel if Israel started proclaiming “death to America”?
He can't resign yet. The nation hasn't been totally destroyed yet.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained, after the election, that he did not abandon Bar-Ilan and/or the TWO-STATE SOLUTION!!
Obama is making up several issues ... which are really non-issues ... and are for only making political hay! Obama wants to get rid of Ambassador Dermer, because of the arrangements made through him (with the Speaker of the House) to have Netanyahu give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress. That really fired up the political opposition to the Iran agreement that Obama is trying to push through, and therefore Obama is looking for some payback ... namely get rid of Dermer!
And in regards to the other issue, and Obama accusing Netanyahu of being against a TWO-STATE SOLUTION ... thats just an outright lie from Obama.
Obama is making this out to be REAL BIG ISSUE and is throwing a Temper Tantrum over it, even though he knows its TOTALLY FALSE and its a LIE that hes telling the American public. Obama is hoping the FOOLS in America will believe him and not Netanyahu, when Netanyahu says he STILL supports a Two-State Solution, per Bar-Ilan.
The reason why Obama is making this out to be a big issue, is that he wants to use it to abandon Israel in the United Nations (by refusing to block UN Security Council Resolutions against Israel) and in the future by implementing sanctions against Israel.
As Obama knows very well, and as Netanyahu has made clear repeatedly after the election ... Netanyahu has not abandoned his Bar-Ilan policy speech regarding his support for the Two-State Solution.
Obama is trying to take a misunderstood campaign blurb and turn into a major policy reversal. Its no such thing and Obama knows it!
This is what I said regarding what the Liberal press and Obama are doing ...
This a FALSE statement from the press and from Obama. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has REPEATEDLY sought to correct the mistaken impression that he does not support a TWO-STATE SOLUTION.
He does support it and he says that he has maintained that same support ... going back to his Bar-Ilan speech, when Obama first got into office. He says his position in support of the Two-State Solution has not changed since then.
What it is ... is that the liberal press and Obama want to hammer on Netanyahu no matter what ... and theyve picked up on a LIE that Netanyahu does not support the Two-State Solution.
Heres Netanyahus support for a Two-State Solution from what he has been referring to in the last several days to COUNTER THIS LIE!
Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University [Relates to Netanyahus Re-election]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270248/posts
“Death to America”????
Gee whizz—WHATEVER COULD THEY MEAN BY THAT????????
(Intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons? Whatever for??)
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