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Netanyahu leading effort to thwart Obama bid for U.N. Chief
The Washington Times ^ | 01/08/2016 | L. Todd Wood

Posted on 01/11/2016 10:56:34 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly is planning payback for President Obama's dismissing Mr. Netanyahu's objections to the Iran nuclear deal last year. Mr. Netanyahu is said to be rallying moderate Arabs to thwart Mr. Obama’s bid to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations after he leaves the White House next year. Mr. Obama has already discussed the issue with Republican, Democratic and Jewish officials in the United States, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. Mr. Netanyahu recently is said to have gotten wind of Obama’s plans which he calls the Obama Project. "Wasn't eight years of having Obama in office enough?" Mr. Netanyahu is quoted in the Kuwaiti daily as telling associates. "Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena."

"Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states," the paper quotes a Netanyahu aide. Another source close to the Prime Minister said "his presidency was characterized by [Washington's] moving closer to the Muslim Brotherhood, toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and attempts to ally itself with political Islam." "Obama's term is ending with him forging an alliance with Iran, coming to an agreement with it on its nuclear program which in the end will result in a similar scenario that took place with North Korea...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; netanyahu; obama; obamaunchief; obamaunsecgen; un
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1 posted on 01/11/2016 10:56:34 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski
HA! Awesome. A while back, I mentioned to someone, "Think Obammy's dangerous now? Wait'll he's part of the UN!"

Sometimes I hate being right.

2 posted on 01/11/2016 10:57:43 AM PST by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I thought the UN chief could NOT be from the US(?)


3 posted on 01/11/2016 10:58:34 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

BB Is Great
Obama sucks and is a danger to the free world


4 posted on 01/11/2016 10:59:35 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: jonno

He won’t be,when that time comes guess who will be from Kenya


5 posted on 01/11/2016 11:00:18 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It would be so grand when he kick those mangy dogs out of the country to jettison 0bongo at the same time!


6 posted on 01/11/2016 11:00:20 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
I never realized how much "thoughts" played in the Criminal Justice System.

It's now easier to see where the push for pure "thought" crimes come from now.

7 posted on 01/11/2016 11:00:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Jan_Sobieski

He can’t be part of the UN....that’s the rules.


8 posted on 01/11/2016 11:02:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: dware

I recall talk of Clintigula being UN Sec Gen after Kofi Anus left....that never happened. I thin this is more talk of that nature by Onambla.

If he were to become UN Chief, president Trump or President Cruz could have the US exit the UN and kick the UN out of the US. Which would be a good thing.

US out of the UN
UN out of the US


9 posted on 01/11/2016 11:03:56 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: jonno

Yup the BIG FIVE cannot hold UN head job
(US,France,England,Russia and China)


10 posted on 01/11/2016 11:04:12 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Robe

Do you have a link for that limitation?

http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-xv/index.html


11 posted on 01/11/2016 11:06:11 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The world leaders have laughed at obama and said he was not too smart... why would they put him in the UN as anything.


12 posted on 01/11/2016 11:06:39 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Robe

Kenya?


13 posted on 01/11/2016 11:06:42 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: jonno
I thought the UN chief could NOT be from the US

Then all of a sudden it will be discovered that he was indeed born in Kenya ...

14 posted on 01/11/2016 11:08:03 AM PST by dartuser
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To: jonno
I thought the UN chief could NOT be from the US(?)

Well, he's not, really, now, is he???
15 posted on 01/11/2016 11:10:16 AM PST by Zarro (Ben Carson 2016)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Obama should be in a mental institution.


16 posted on 01/11/2016 11:12:25 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

President Trump will kick the UN out of the U.S., so dumBO will have to find a golf course in Switzerland.


17 posted on 01/11/2016 11:13:17 AM PST by depressed in 06
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To: Ouderkirk
If he were to become UN Chief, president Trump or President Cruz could have the US exit the UN and kick the UN out of the US

They ought to do that regardless.

18 posted on 01/11/2016 11:16:45 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: thackney
I've heard that a US citizen cannot be UN Secretary General but I too couldn't find any formal organizational restriction. The following link (first answer) makes the case that it is a political impossibility for any of the Security Council member countries to fill the position.

"The election of the Secretary General is contingent upon the approval of the UN Security Council and is, therefore, subject to a veto by any of the permanent members. Neither Russia nor China would ever allow an American to become Secretary General just like the Western bloc of permanent members wouldn't approve a candidate from China or Russia."

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-United-States-want-to-have-one-of-its-citizens-as-Secretary-General-to-the-United-Nations

19 posted on 01/11/2016 11:19:00 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: frnewsjunkie
why would they put him in the UN as anything.

Pushing a mail cart along the corridors perhaps...?

20 posted on 01/11/2016 11:20:16 AM PST by Moltke
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