Posted on 02/21/2015 6:20:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The Obama administration is taking measures to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States. Top officials, including Vice President Biden, are being sent away when the Israeli head of government delivers his address in March.
The friction between the Israel and the United States is looking more like a feud between the Soprano and Lupertazzi families (via Associated Press):
In what is becoming an increasingly nasty grudge match, the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world.
There are limits. Administration officials have discarded the idea of President Barack Obama himself giving an Iran-related address to rebut the two speeches Netanyahu is to deliver during his early March visit. But other options remain on the table.
Among them: a presidential interview with a prominent journalist known for coverage of the rift between Obama and Netanyahu, multiple Sunday show television appearances by senior national security aides and a pointed snub of America's leading pro-Israel lobby, which is holding its annual meeting while Netanyahu is in Washington, according to the officials.
The administration has already ruled out meetings between Netanyahu and Obama, saying it would be inappropriate for the two to meet so close to Israel's March 17 elections. But the White House is now doubling down on a cold-shoulder strategy, including dispatching Cabinet members out of the country and sending a lower-ranking official than normal to represent the administration at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the officials said.
Vice President Joe Biden will be away, his absence behind Netanyahu conspicuous in coverage of the speech to Congress. Other options were described by officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal deliberations.
Netanyahu's plan for a March 3 address to a joint meeting of Congress has further strained already tense ties between the U.S. and Israel. Congressional Republicans orchestrated Netanyahu's visit without consulting the White House or State Department, a move the Obama administration blasted as a break in diplomatic protocol. Some Democratic lawmakers say they will boycott the speech.
U.S. officials believe Netanyahu's trip to Washington is aimed primarily at derailing a nuclear deal with Iran, Obama's signature foreign policy objective.
The Obama White House remains incredibly angry that Speaker of the House, John Boehner, invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress without coordinating with them. Then again, this is the same administration that described Mr. Netanyahu as “chickens**t.” Some Democrats have stated they’re skipping the address on March 3.
I’m wondering, if he really has some truly damning evidence, would the Obama minions be desperate enough try to block the broadcast of his speech? It definitely has to be on multiple American networks to help prevent that from happening, I would think.
At the Great White Throne judgment for the lost, this entire mob of the Hussein Obama White House will be present. They will each be judged on their lives. They will lose at the GWT. Christ is going to send each and every one of these people, Obama included, straight to the Lake of Fire which burns for ever and ever. The ONLY way any of them will avoid that judgment is complete repentance of their sins. They will be judged for their treatment of God’s people and nation, the Jews and Israel. It ain’t going to be pretty for any of them.
It wasn’t house speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role to got sit in Syria president Assad’s lap but se did...
It wasn’t the Baghdad trio’s to go meets Saddam Hussein and speak before the regime’s parliament but they did.
And it wasn’t John Kerry’s role to get involved in peace treaties with the North Vietnamese but there he went right into Madame Binh’s bedroom...
If the U.S. had an actual president instead of a terrorist-sympathizing, Marxist usurper, I might agree with you (though this is not without precedent). Obama IS the very "domestic enemy" that elected officials take oaths to defend against. I think hosting a speech that makes him pouty is mild compared to what Congress should be doing to him.
Yup. The liberal Jews in Israel think the nation should be torn down and incorporated with a liberal middle east nation. I guess they want to join up with ISIS or the izzie brotherhood. Perhaps they could approach prez Hussein O-Blow-hole and get him to do something about it. But, then again, he is. He is doing his utter best to destroy the nation of Israel. But, he is wasting his time. THE God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob is not going to allow Israel to disappear. God made it clear in Scripture that He would bring the Jews back to the land again, NEVER to be casted out again. So, the nation of Israel ain’t going no where. It will stay as a nation.
Bibi won’t be missing much if Obama and his foreign policy morons refuse to meet with him.
I agree
Through voter fraud and uninformed aka idiot voters, plus voters on our side sitting on their butts or voting third party, because they didn’t like the nominee. That’s how
Obama is afraid of Netanyahu.
As does anyone with a functioning brain cell.
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White House Looks For Ways To 'Undercut' Netanyahu's Visit
Check out article, also # 24 , 25 , 28 , 35 , 37, 40 , and more.
Thanks, anonymous.
Now I’m picturing Bibi dressed as Rambo, shooting flaming arrows.
Remember all the talk from the Egyptians that O and Hill had committed crimes. BiBi has the proof. He’s going directly to the American people thru their representatives. You bet the WH is nervous !
Where’s Kadaffis’s gold? Bet Bibi knows
That’s exactly where I got the idea from. Imagine Bibi shooting explosive-tipped arrows!
Careful - the Bibi Estrogen Brigade will demand photoshops! ;^)
Remember when GWB went to South America and the South Americans tried to separate him from the Secret Service before he could meet whatever dignitary it was? I fully expect something like that -- that they will try to isolate him from his security. I have no doubt whatsoever that these evil trolls would carry out an assassination attempt and blame it on 'Christian right wing nuts.'
No ‘grudge match’ when only one has the grudge. That’s plain old control, vitriol and bitterness coming from Obama. It’s very JV of him.
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