It’s happened a few times before. That’s why I don’t think this F-35 thing is ever going to work( four years dangling a carrot on a stick? Possibly LOSE the contract? happened before. No dice ). Our US government screws israel way more than it’s screwed the American Indian’s on treaties. Netanyahu should just start building. There should be a tape recording somewhere. Any uprising, well, it’s going to happen, so israel will deal with it. it’s completely obvious which corner Obama is in; Israel may as well move on.
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It's pretty embarrassing wathching the Sec. of State put her foot in her mouth and having her boss contradicting what she says in Israel? Usually the Sec. of State parrots the policies of her/his President during negotiations. Netanyahu must be thinking what in blazes is going on here? The USA's foreign policy under Obama is analogous of/to the old Abbott and Costello "Who's on First Routine."
The story of promising 20 Jets and vetoes at the UN and to never again ask for a freeze in return for 90 day freeze never made sense. We would not and should not offer that kind of deal. I don’t know how it got started or what kind of game is being played here but this could be Netanyahu playing President Obama. The timing of the news story came around right when Obama was distracted by the election loss and his trips to India and Europe. Sec. Clinton shows up but the SoS office is in no place to publicly deny media reports about what was on offer.
I am beginning to suspect that this who story was cooked up by Netanyahu’s team. To what end, I don’t know.. but there is that old saying about the Israelis and Palestinians don’t neogtiate with each other, they negotiate with us. If Israel is asking for $3 billion in planes and diplomatic cover for a 90 freeze, Clinton and Obama have some idea of what it is going to cost to close an Israeli-Palestinian deal.