Posted on 05/20/2011 5:07:27 AM PDT by SJackson
PM en route to Washington says "sometimes being right also means being smart," stresses he will bring up "principal matters" regarding Israel's existence with US president during meeting. Talkbacks (2) WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu en route to a Washington meeting Friday morning with US President Barack Obama, said "there are certain things that cannot be swept under the rug."
Netanyahu was referring to a negative response Thursday to President Obama's Mideast speech.
"Sometimes being right also means being smart," he said, playing on the phrase that sometimes it's better to be smart than right.
He said this is especially true when dealing with principal matters that are part of the Israeli consensus.
Netanyahu said he will bring these matters up in his meeting with Obama and in his speech to congress and AIPAC.
He is expected to meet the president for an hour at 11:15 local time, after which they will both issue statements before going into a working lunch.
Netanyahu issued a quick, bitter response on Thursday night to Obama’s speech, saying that the establishment of a Palestinian state could not come “at Israel’s expense.”
“The Palestinians, and not only the US, must recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people,” he said.
Netanyahu said he “expects to hear from President Obama a reconfirmation of commitments to Israel from 2004 that received wide support in both houses of Congress.”
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Here is Obama pre election on Israel. Wake up American Jews before it’s too late.
Obama promises Israel ‘unshakeable’ commitment
(AFP) – Jul 23, 2008
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Barack Obama was heading for Europe Thursday after vowing to forge an “unshakeable” bond with Israel if he becomes the next US president and warning a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat” which the world must forestall.
The Democratic White House hopeful hailed Israel as a “miracle” as he courted Jewish voters at home, taking pains to stress he understood the security fears of the Jewish state and would not push it into a peace deal.
“I bring here an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” Obama said Wednesday, after a day meeting top Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Shimon Peres.
Olmert, hosting Obama for dinner, replied that the presidential hopeful was following a tradition of the “great friends of Israel.”
“I know how friendly you are, and I know how much you care for us,” Olmert said.
The Illinois senator also tried to convince the Palestinians, during a short trip to see the conflict from the other side, on the occupied West Bank, that he would sponsor a vigorous peace effort if elected.
Obama picked his way through the tricky currents of Middle Eastern politics on the latest leg of a high-profile international campaign swing meant to assuage fears among some US voters that he lacks experience on the global stage.
The senator reiterated his vow to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon, but defended his offer of talks with leaders from the Islamic Republic, promising to use “big carrots and big sticks.”
“A nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said, as he visited the southern Israeli town of Sderot, long in the firing line of rockets from Gaza.
Olmert said during his talks with Obama that Israel expected Iran to have the nuclear weapon “by the end of 2009 or the start of 2010 at the latest,” Israeli public radio reported.
Obama however refused to budge on his offer to talk to Iranian leaders, which has sparked consternation among some in Israel, and drew charges that he is naive by his Republican rival John McCain.
“I would at my time and choosing be willing to meet with any leader if I thought it would promote the national security interest of the United States of America,” he said.
Obama held just over an hour of talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after sweeping into heavily guarded Ramallah in a motorcade.
“I will not wait until a few years into my term or my second term if I am elected in order to get the process moving,” Obama said of Middle East peace efforts.
“I think we have a window right now that needs to be taken advantage of.”
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP that Obama told Abbas “if he wins the election in the United States he will be a full and positive partner in the peace process and will not lose a single moment in pursuing it.”
Obama also said that he had not backed down from his comment that Jerusalem should not be divided, which he made before the US Jewish lobby last month, sparking anger among Palestinians.
“I have not changed my statement,” Obama told reporters in Sderot after touring the home of a family in which a young boy lost a leg to a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from nearby Gaza.
“I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel. I have said it before and will say it again... but I’ve also said that it is a final status issue” that must be decided by negotiation.
Obama’s original comment was seen by some observers as prejudging final status peace talks, and his campaign has since said that it was poorly worded.
The senator also said he stood by Israel’s refusal to negotiate with Hamas, which the United States and European Union consider a terrorist group.
“It is very hard to negotiate with a group that is not representative of a nation state, does not recognise your right to exist, has consistently used terror as a weapon and is deeply influenced by other countries,” he said.
US polls showed Obama has yet to lock in an overwhelming advantage among the normally solid Democratic bloc of American Jewish voters, just over three months before the US election.
On a day rich in imagery, he paid his respects to veteran statesman Peres, and his role in Israel’s history.
“You have been deeply involved in this miracle that has blossomed and we are extraordinarily grateful not just as Americans but as world citizens for your outstanding service to your country,” Obama told Peres.
Earlier, the Democratic senator toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem to the six million Jews who perished under the Nazis..
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IMO, Hussein’s commitment to his creators and backers is to destroy the USA and Israel.
Answering The Call Of History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzEGSmgYl4&feature=youtu.be
http://jr.co.il/pictures/israel/history/f15-jets-over-auschwitz.htm
The Messiah is causing anxiety to Israel and Israel should cause anxiety back.
read Dershowitz at Jpost.
bttt
My admiration for Netanyahu is deep, but I fear this will go badly. He seems resigned to the idea of a Palestinian state, as long as it’s “unmilitarized,” as if that’s going to last more than a week into statehood.
The old hard line approach would have been better, IMO. Today, hard line means dancing backwards out of the West Bank; far worse than the dance out of Gaza that Bibi opposed in principle and then accepted — and called it a mistake they would not repeat.
However, he is going to Washington to confer with 0bama...
I hope he’s taking a food taster with him. Serious.
Good mercy, Prime Minister Netanyahu is the closest thing we have to an heroic protector-----to stand between tiny Israel and our ungrateful, Machiavellion president!......
thank God for him.
bfl8r
Obama lacks the intellect to be Machiavellian
The Messiah is but a common meddler
What BO did to Israel is biblical in scope. Beck is right- Israel is being set up...
Some are waiting for this Saturday;Some are waiting for the Mayan date; and some are waiting for contact with aliens. Some of us are not doing any of these because we are too busy watching the shenanigans going on between the arab countries and Russia.
We have already been told how this will all end, and God hasn’t been wrong yet. So, may I suggest y’all dust off yer ole’ Bibles, folks, and read the book of Revelation- the news is giving me goose-bumps these days and I find myself listening for the sound of trumpets...
Israel is finished!
That's about the stupidest thing I have read in a while, and I do a lot of reading
“JERUSALEM (AFP) — Barack Obama was heading for Europe Thursday after vowing to forge an “unshakeable” bond with Israel if he becomes the next US president and warning a nuclear Iran would pose a “grave threat” which the world must forestall.
The Democratic White House hopeful hailed Israel as a “miracle” as he courted Jewish voters at home,”
Yes, because the deck was and still is stacked against us, but we keep pulling all the aces. That’s miraculous, as BHO will find out to his sorrow.
” taking pains to stress he understood the security fears of the Jewish state and would not push it into a peace deal.
“I bring here an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” Obama said Wednesday, after a day meeting top Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Shimon Peres.”
It’s unshakeable because it’s non-existent. You can’t shake that which is not.
No lies here. Just parse and it all makes sense.
That’s not what GOD says!!!!
Obama’s only carrying out the wishes of Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan.
AMEN
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