“I suspect that happened just earlier, behind closed doors.”
Maybe not. If they had even an inkling that the PM was going to scold the president on world TV, why would the WH have allowed the televised portion to go on as scheduled?
I can believe, knowing Bibi’s far superior intellect, he handled the meeting behind closed doors in such a way that he thoroughly confused bo (and staff).
And listening to zero’s muddled statements, it seemed he expected Bibi to smile and nod. Instead the world heard “will not happen” - and that can’t be sent through the spin cycle to mean the PM and potus came away from the closed-door meeting with some slight differences - not after zero’s insane comments yesterday. Thus, the dopey, non-presidential body language.
I agree. Bibi kissed up just enough on camera that Obama didn’t see it coming.
Note that they didn’t put him at a podium to give a statement, and take questions as they have with other world leaders...and you can bet the next time Abbas visits, he’ll get a 45 minute press conference now.
I like that theory.
Yo, one thing to always remember is the disgraceful treatment Bibi suffered at the Wye River Plantation when he was dealing with idiotic vile nutcrunchers in the Clinton Administration.
After days of personal harassment to the Israeli national leader by the US, Bibi got tired, frustrated. That resulted in the not-so-good Wye River accords. Not good for Bibi either. But he survived and he came back into power.
He will not make the same mistake.
Caroline B Glick put in historical context what I am referring to at Wye River: see http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1210/glick121710.php3
The global elitist utter rainbow-unicorn pablum take on it can be found here:
http://www.time.com/time/teach/current/99_08.pdf