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Obama downplays Iran ‘death to America’ remarks, toes hard line on Netanyahu
Washington Times ^ | 3-23-2015 | Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang

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 Israel’s election last week, but downplayed concerns over “death to America” remarks Iran’s 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 Khamenei’s 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 administration’s 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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: deathtoamerica; iran; irantalks; israel; nucleariran; obama; obamanetanyahu; supremeleader
Maybe Kerry just needs to be nicer?
1 posted on 03/23/2015 10:37:25 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Perhaps if he wore a bunny suit and groveled?


2 posted on 03/23/2015 10:39:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Citizen Zed

Here we go again. Delusional as usual. How long before he is forced to resign?


3 posted on 03/23/2015 10:42:55 PM PDT by BigEdLB (We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
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To: Citizen Zed

[Obama downplays Iran ‘death to America’ remarks, toes hard line on Netanyahu]

Obama hates Christians and Jews. Pretty simple.


4 posted on 03/23/2015 11:21:38 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: Citizen Zed

How would he feel if Israel started proclaiming “death to America”?


5 posted on 03/23/2015 11:56:44 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: BigEdLB
Here we go again. Delusional as usual. How long before he is forced to resign?

He can't resign yet. The nation hasn't been totally destroyed yet.

6 posted on 03/24/2015 12:40:57 AM PDT by Mark17 (Beyond the sunset, O blissful morning, when with our Savior, Heaven is begun. O glorious dawning)
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To: Citizen Zed

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 ... that’s 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 it’s TOTALLY FALSE and it’s a LIE that he’s 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. It’s no such thing and Obama knows it!

This is what I said regarding what the Liberal press and Obama are doing ...

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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 they’ve picked up on a LIE that Netanyahu does not support the Two-State Solution.

Here’s Netanyahu’s 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 Netanyahu’s Re-election]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270248/posts


7 posted on 03/24/2015 2:05:46 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Citizen Zed

“Death to America”????

Gee whizz—WHATEVER COULD THEY MEAN BY THAT????????

(Intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons? Whatever for??)


8 posted on 03/24/2015 4:42:03 AM PDT by Flintlock (The 'soapbox ' failed us; the 'ballot box' was stolen. We are left with the bullet box.)
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To: Citizen Zed

9 posted on 03/24/2015 4:48:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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