Posted on 01/26/2015 11:27:18 PM PST by Candor7
......, the Obama administration went, well, nuclear.
One “senior American official” threatened Netanyahu, telling the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that “Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price.” Meanwhile a “source close to [Secretary of State John] Kerry” told The Post that the “secretary’s patience is not infinite” and that “playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry’s enthusiasm for being Israel’s primary defender.”
.. No wonder Netanyahu is going around these people to Congress for support. Is Kerry defending Israel as a favor to Netanyahu, or because it is in the United States’ vital interests to stand with our closest ally in the Middle East? Just the threat of withdrawing that support validates Netanyahu’s suspicion that the Obama administration does not have Israel’s back in its negotiations with Iran.
Using anonymous officials to attack Netanyahu is nothing new. Unnamed officials have called him “chickens---,” “recalcitrant,” “myopic,” “reactionary,” “obtuse,” “blustering,” “pompous,” and “Aspergery” — all to one journalist (Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who keeps a running list).
Obama won’t meet Netanyahu in March visit President Obama will not meet with Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister visits the U.S. in March as the invited guest of Republican congressional leaders. The Obama team’s outrage is a bit overwrought. Clearly, it is not a breach of protocol for a foreign leader to lobby Congress. After all, Obama himself deployed British Prime Minister David Cameron to lobby lawmakers to oppose new sanctions on Iran. It seems Netanyahu’s crime is not so much a breach of diplomatic protocol, but rather, opposing the administration’s position....
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Hopefully Bibi will tell the American people the truth about
Obama’s cutthroat negotiation with Iran.
Perhaps this will be an exposee about Obama’s real work against America and against Israel.
Bibi should not pull any punches. He should give Congress the entire data dump from the Mossad.
I’m so sorry Speaker Boehner violated diplomatic protocol by issuing a speech invitation to the guy who anonymous White House sources called a chicken**** coward.
It is when it comes to muslim terrorists.
Our administration is already interfering with Israel’s up coming election just like Kintoon did.
Bibi would be correct in using the Mossad to________________.
given the choice, i’d meet w/ Netanyahu and send 0bama a pile of rubber dog sh*t
if i was in a room and 0bama walked in... i’d walk out
Washington........POST!?
Look, if David Cameron, British PM and good ol’ pal of Obama, can LOBBY Congress...then so can Bibi.
Free country and all that.
B’sides, Congress is a co-equal branch of the federal government.
Pesky Constitution and all that.
Israel is our strongest (and, sometime, ONLY) ally in the region.
Terrorism and such.
Period. End of story. Full stop.
Netanyahu tries to bypass Obama and there is hell to pay but if Obama bypasses Congress and the American people using executive order it’s okay, right? Got it.
The Post has surprised me a few times lately. Maybe they’re asking themselves “how bad do we let this get before we start telling the truth?”
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Netanyahu will tell us what 0bama doesn’t want us to hear about our enemies, (0bama’s friends.)
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