Posted on 03/18/2015 7:09:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This morning, the White House conspicuously avoided sending any message of congratulations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his sweeping victory yesterday. Weekly Standard reports:
On CNN this morning, White House aide David Simas avoided congratulating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Israeli elections. Instead, he would only congratulate the Israeli people on having an election.
“We want to congratulate the Israeli people for the democratic process for the election that they just engaged in with all the parties that engaged in that election. As you know now, the hard work of coalition building begins. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks. And we’re going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we’re not going to weigh in one way or another except to say that the United States and Israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward,” Simas said.
While Obama has had public differences with Netanyahu recently, in the past he has made efforts to congratulate leaders that have a much more adversarial relationship with the United States as well as shamefully undemocratic electoral processes.
On August 12, 2014, Reuters reported:
Obama congratulates Turkey’s Erdogan on presidential win
U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his victory as the country’s next president, the White House said.
Erdogan vowed to pursue a period of reconciliation in Turkey after securing the post with more than 52 percent of the vote on Sunday.
“The president praised the prime minister’s speech on Sunday and noted that as Turkey’s first directly elected president, the prime minister has an historic opportunity to further move Turkey forward,” the White House said in a statement.
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The call lasted 45 minutes, according to Turkish sources.
Erdogan last month acknowledged strains in his relations with Obama, saying he no longer spoke directly to the U.S. president as he had in the past.
Erdogan’s leadership style, from his bombastic rhetoric on Israel to his crackdown on anti-government protests last summer, has raised increasing concern among Western allies in recent years.
On June 10, 2014, Reuters reported:
Obama calls new Egyptian president to congratulate him: White House
President Barack Obama called new Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday and affirmed their commitment to a U.S.-Egyptian strategic partnership, the White House said.
Sisi was sworn in on Sunday, almost a year after toppling elected President Mohamed Mursi, an ouster that Obama resisted calling a coup because it would have prompted Washington to cut off assistance to Egypt.
The White House said Obama called Sisi to congratulate him on his inauguration and “to convey his commitment to working together to advance the shared interests of both countries.”
On September 27, 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Obama breaks three decades of silence with call to Iranian president
Obama began by congratulating Rouhani on his June election. He referred to the long mistrust between the two sides but said he believed the talks were already making progress.
Israeli leaders and senior U.S. lawmakers, some of whom remain wary of Iran’s intentions, were notified of Obama’s plans ahead of time.
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor blasted Obama for failing to press the Iranian leader on terrorism, Syria and other issues.
And on March 9, 2012, Weekly Standard reported:
CBS’s Mark Knoller reports:
Pres. Obama phoning congratulations from AF-1 to Pres-elect Vladimir Putin of Russia.
As the New York Times reported earlier in the week, there are serious charges that Putin rigged the election: “A day after claiming an overwhelming victory in Russia’s presidential election, Vladimir V. Putin on Monday faced a range of challenges to his legitimacy, including charges of fraud from international observers and a defiant opposition that vowed to keep him from serving his full six-year term.”
Even the State Department called for an investigation into the election earlier in the week.
Yet with President Obama reportedly calling to congratulate Putin, apparently the White House isn’t too concerned with the fraudulent election–or even its worrisome outcome.
It was on display at the 2012 DNC convention when the delegates booed God and Israel and Jewish voters still gave Obama and the Democrats their support.
Most Jewish voters are democrats. Democrats are dead souls and asleep, at best. There is nothing that a democrat pResident could do to Israel which would clue in such fools.
I’ve always wondered that and the only thing I can take away from it is the self loathing jew syndrome. They aren’t really practicing their religion, but use their jewish status to attack jews and Israel.
In truthful and objective future, historians would describe Obama as a Muslim zealot who was also a spoiled two-year old brat.
but God and the people of Israel has spoken. =)
He didn’t but we can. Literally. At his Prime Minister page. Our representatives should also know that we congratulate him and Congress should have, too.
Bibi just handed our outhouse Sunni another severe ass kicking on the international front.
This was an excellent followup ass kicking when Bibi did his excellent showing in his joint session in our congress.
This is actually pretty funny. Obama can’t even be man enough to properly slight Netanyahu.
Instead he takes the cowards way out, delivering the slight but leaving himself a way out: since there’s no coalition yet, there’s no way of “knowing” who the next PM is going to be. So congratulating Netanyahu can be spun as premature.
Bibi must be laughing his a** off over this.
If only for this ad this election has been worth it...everything else is icing but we have lots of icing this morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmac71R5Br8
A nine year old would have more maturity.
Of course not. Bibi is a stateman and leader of his people.
Obama is a jerk (among other things) and a disgrace to America.
Obama the anti-Semite.
OK Zer0 . . . bow to Bibi, now. . . .
I congratulate PM Netanyahu on his election results. We look fwd to working w/ the gov't once formed. Israel has no greater friend than Cda.— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 18, 2015
Wow.
Obama is an enemy of God and he hates Israel as all God-haters do.
All who are surprised at this, please raise your hands...
Yes, a snarky, petulant little malcontent punk.
No class at all.
His wif4e is the same.
Hopefully the friends at Sidwell school are bending the girls towards decency, humility and good citizenship.
The Liberal American Jew is spoiled, like most Americans, they don't have to think about sending their sons & daughters to the Army, to the front lines in order to defend American or Jewish Israeli lives against insane Muslims.
The American Jews live in a different more pleasant reality than their Israeli cousins. For the Israelis, death is close, for the American Jews, the Mall is close.
Historically, Jews champion change and the improvement for the human condition which is why they're always in the forefront for justice, change and even revolution.
The RAT party USED TO represent that path, supposedly, you can argue about FDR and all that but traditionally, the Jews suffer from Terminal Liberalism which means that even in the face of threats to their fellow Jews they shy away, Woody Allen fashion and flinch.
Their brothers and sisters in Israel would have voted for ANY Republican candidate because they know how the world works and it works against them 24/7.
The American Jew is locked in a mindset which is hard to change. That mindset dictates who they support. They are misguided. The further they move away from G-d, Torah, The Land of Israel, Hebrew and Jewish knowledge, they more they replace it with rubbish like the ACLU.
It is historical and destructive to their very existence as Jews. Just look at Wasserman-Schultz and you get the picture.
At least the Israelis figured Obama out way back in 2008.
He is what he is.
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