Posted on 03/24/2015 4:10:06 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama said at a White House press conferenceTuesday that his decision to reevaluate United States policy towards Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election is not personal, it's strictly business.
"One last point about this because I've heard a lot of the commentary," Obama said in response to a question about whether there was anything Netanyahu could do to stop Obama from changing his administration's policy on Israel. "There is a tendency I think in the reporting here to frame this somehow as a personal issue between myself and Prime Minister Netanyahu."
"I have a very businesslike relationship with the prime minister," Obama continued. "The issue is not a matter of relations between leaders. The issue is a very clear substantive challenge. We believe that two-states is the best path forward for Israel's security for Palestinian aspirations and for regional stability. That's our view. And Prime Minister Netanyahu has a different approach."
Obama's remarks came at a press conference at the White House featuring both Obama and Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who Obama referred to as "Karzai" at least once during the press conference.
Before the two leaders addressed reporters the White House released a joint statement from the two governments confirming that Obama will keep about 9,800 American troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2015. Obama had planned to have just 5,500 troops in the country by the end of this year. During the press conference Obama again reiterated his promise to remove all U.S. troops from the country by the time he leaves office.
"We want to make sure we're doing everything we can to help Afghan security forces succeed, so we don't have to go back," Obama said.
Hating Jews would seem to be personal.
It was just business for Don Corleone, too.
Abbas will never agree to a two state solution. He’s said it many times.
I think that’s what a victim hears from the hit-man, just before he’s killed ... “It’s not personal; it’s business!”
They’re just as dead!
Obama is a disgrace and a threat to the existence of this country.
Did he preface this comment with 'let me be clear'?
'Cause thats the surest way to tell whether he's lying.
Then again, he's pretty much lying nonstop these days.
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks “
It’s a TWO-STATE SOLUTION, no matter if he gets it from Israel in negotiations ... or ... if he gets it by way of a unilateral declaration. He’s trying to do it by way of unilateral declaration, instead of negotiations, so he can carry forward all the issues ... into countless future generations. If it’s done by way of negotiations, then it’s a final agreement, settling all issues, with nothing to carry forward, and obligations on their part to meet!
Isn’t that what Michael Corleone said about whacking the Turk and the corrupt Police Captain?
now hes the godfather ???
Hes an anti semite
Yep, and 0bama operates exactly like the mob. It’s the Chicago way.
Yeah, when Israel overflies Saudi and creates 6 new smoking craters in Iran and demonstrates Russian-supplied Air Defense once AGAIN as useless, that’s really bad business for Iran, Russia and NORK and the little commie countries they want to sell to.
Thus said Michael Corleone...
“Then again, he’s pretty much lying nonstop these days”
Absolutely.
That’s what this world needs badly, in my view.
Hating Jews and aiding muslims are very personal to Obama. It’s a religion thing, ya know.
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