Posted on 09/23/2009 6:37:56 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
There was only one reason that yesterday was the first meeting between Netanyahu and Abba since the Israeli Election, President Obama's screw-up. What the President and his advisers perceived as a minor concession, a settlement freeze, was not perceived by Israel as a minor one. This was a major error by Obama. And when he added Jerusalem to his demands it just compounded the situation. His insistence for a freeze and the constant public berating of the Jewish State has turned the Israeli population against Obama, and increased the support of Prime Minister Netanyahu even with the Israeli left, no fans of Bibi, but who the President would look to help him pressure Bibi from Israel.
The President's demand for a settlement freeze was a gift to the Palestinians. They twisted his pressure for the freeze and made it a pre-condition for negotiations, giving the Palestinians an excuse to avoid negotiations and the other Arab nations an excuse to avoid making the "gestures" for which the President is looking.
Yesterday the President took back his gift to Abbas. And his body language and tone of voice indicated he was not please that he had to take it away. The POTUS realized that it was his anti-settlement declaration holding up talks. Oh, he still wants Israel to stop with the natural growth in settlements, but he told the Palestinians that it should not be a pre-condition to talks. Abbas want to avoid those talks at all costs because he either doesn't want to make peace, or doesn't have the political capital to make it. Either way, Israel dodged the first of Barack Obama's anti-Israel bullets.
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“There was only one reason that yesterday was the first meeting between Netanyahu and Abba”
Bibi’s a fan of disco? I wonder what his favorite song was? Think he dances to “Fernando?”
This is what happens when you have a clueless amateur for president!
Can you imagine if this idiot had been president during the cold war?
This is what happens when you have a clueless amateur ideologue for president!
More like Frank Zappa’s “Dancing Fool”. “Your Jewish?”
Jerusalem was recently problematic for Wolf Blitzer also.
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