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Posted on 03/25/2010 5:37:57 PM PDT by Steelfish
March 26, 2010
Binyamin Netanyahu Humiliated After Barack Obama 'Dumped Him For Dinner'
(AP Photo/Cliff Owen) The President was said to have walked out of the meeting, saying to Mr Netanyahu: 'Let me know if there is anything new' Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem
For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.
After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and “let me know if there is anything new”, a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.
“It was awful,” the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages”, poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea”.
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Obama has no class. It is a pity that this is what passes for “diplomacy” in this administration.
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Does anyone else feel like “Alice in Wonderland” with Bama in the White House??? Nothing makes sense...What a dim bulb!!!
At least he didn’t give Bibi an iPod.
when I read these stories I can only think of Lisa Silverman and her pre-election “Great Schlep” to convert elderly Jews in FL to vote for Obama. She was successful, unfortunately, to Israel’s misfortune.
I ain’t no perfessinal diplimat, but it seems to me that this is the way you start a war.
Zero is an immature, child President.
glad to see this going right around the world. Any comments from liberal jews seen yet?
Obama humiliates himself.
Bibi deserves a medal for putting up with idiOts.
I can’t believe this fool is our President.
Trash representing America.
Let the world know that many Americans do not support this classes dreg.
hmmmmm......not yet......
Gee, what will it take ??
It’s OK Bibi, we’re not to pleased with him ourselves!
It makes lots of sense, he is the enemy of America and is behaving perfectly in line with that. He is also the enemy of Israel.
Netanyahu was probably looking forward to congratulating Obama over the health care bill and telling him how they do socialized medicine in Israel.
Remember how he treated the Dalai Lama, treated him literally like trash. He certainly has reset America’s reputation with the rest of the world. This man and this congress is acting directly against the best interest of America, why is it wrong to wish or bring violence against them? What would our founders do?
I hardly think he was humiliated. We don’t know what happened. Maybe he had to go back home?
I think we remember what Clinton was doing that held him up.
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