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Dear Mr. Netanyahu, Please Don't Speak to My President That Way
The Atlantic ^ | 5/20/11 | Jeffrey Goldberg

Posted on 05/20/2011 12:05:39 PM PDT by Libloather

Dear Mr. Netanyahu, Please Don't Speak to My President That Way
By Jeffrey Goldberg
May 20 2011, 8:05 AM ET

For whatever reason, I tend to react strongly when a foreign leader disrespects the United States, and its President. I didn't like it when Hugo Chavez of Venezuela insulted President Bush; I don't like listening to Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan lecture the U.S. on its sins, and I'm not happy when certain Pakistani leaders gin-up righteous indignation about American behavior when it was their country that served as a refuge for the greatest mass murderer in American history.

And so I was similarly taken aback when I read a statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday that he "expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both House of Congress."

So Netanyahu "expects" to hear this from the President of the United States? And if President Obama doesn't walk back the speech, what will Netanyahu do? Will he cut off Israeli military aid to the U.S.? Will he cease to fight for the U.S. in the United Nations, and in the many international forums that treat Israel as a pariah?

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bibikicked0bamasass; hussein; israel; netanyahu; president
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To: ReneeLynn

Goldberg is a useful idiot, carted out on cue just because he is a Jew (or at least has a Jewish last name). As a Jew myself, it pains me that most American Jews seems to be drinking the Liberal Koolaid to the detriment of their own people. From the safety of American, they can afford such reckless idealism.

A few weeks ago, one of my fellow Jews told me that Israel was “a pain in his ass”. I told him to that if it was too much trouble for him to support his fellow Jews in harms way, then he should go screw himself. I also invited him outside in case he wanted to discuss it further. He didn’t come. I’m sure he’ll be voting for Obama in 2012.


81 posted on 05/20/2011 12:46:13 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81
As a Jew myself, it pains me that most American Jews seems to be drinking the Liberal Koolaid to the detriment of their own people.

A lot of Jews in Israel are also drinking the same Kool-Aid.

82 posted on 05/20/2011 12:48:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: maggief

Looking at those pictures makes my skin crawl. Obama is either getting ready to start throwing a hissy fit or he is on something.

Deadest, dullest eyes I have seen in a long time. Maybe, he is suffering from sleep deprivation. Strange duck...


83 posted on 05/20/2011 12:48:54 PM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty (BOYCOTT NEVADA...!!!!)
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To: rbg81

Nauseating. I’m not Jewish but many of my friends over the years have been and are...and I’m sure almost all of them will be out pulling the lever for Bambi in 2012, no matter what he says or does to Israel or Jews.


84 posted on 05/20/2011 12:49:02 PM PDT by livius
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To: Libloather

What nonsense. We’re expected to believe this Liberal really respects all of the US presidents.


85 posted on 05/20/2011 12:51:27 PM PDT by elhombrelibre ("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
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To: hosepipe
We will give back Golan Hieghts when America gives back Cal, Ar, and NMex to Mexico.

You forgot Colorado, Texas, and Nevada. They want those too.

86 posted on 05/20/2011 12:54:23 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: scorchedearther

“On the contrary, I wish more heads of state would be so bold to publicly denounce our president and his inane and insane policies.”

My sentiments exactly!!


87 posted on 05/20/2011 12:55:19 PM PDT by Amigo04
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To: wiggen

This guy Goldberg is just another liberal flacker who would not know or discern the real ME good or evil. He thinks it is more important for Israel to kow tow to ...Bama. This is not America, Bibi is responding to. It is Bama’s inane silly ME speech on the 19th. He nor Goldberg do not understand history. In fact, Goldie reminds me of so many liberal Jews; self hating and not understanding that the Islamofascists would be killing him post haste if he went hat in hand to their casbahs!! Bama had dissed W’s 2004 policy. He did not see that Hamas already has rejected all of his appeasement and BIBI is not going to hand over his people to the likes of Hamas, Hez, the Pals or Abbas. The hell with what the UN and the MSM thinks. Bama puts both of our nations in danger.


88 posted on 05/20/2011 12:56:50 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: hosepipe
ROFL!!

Then you would have to donate to FR in pesos.

89 posted on 05/20/2011 12:58:06 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Libloather

Dear Mr. Netanyahu — Never mind the libs, they are all froth. Thanks for standing up to President Obama. Let it be repeated, to his face, that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD does not adore him.

Gad, he is so awful. Thanks Bibi.


90 posted on 05/20/2011 1:00:37 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: linn37

Is it too late for Bibi to get in the GOP presidential race?


91 posted on 05/20/2011 1:00:42 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: hosepipe

“We will give back Golan Heights when America gives back Cal, Ar, and NMex to Mexico..”

And Obama’s reply would be:

“Patience please! I’m working on that and making GREAT progress!”


92 posted on 05/20/2011 1:01:45 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less." M Rosen)
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To: Libloather

This is a stunningly hypocritical article - even moronic.

Something that requires this level of spin adjustment is always evidence of one of Hillary’s ham-handed plots.

How embarrassing for so many powerful people to have followed one screwup hag so far down the drain for so long - even to this day!

Pathetic.


93 posted on 05/20/2011 1:02:19 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: ransomnote

“the deadest eyes I’ve seen in that empty head of his...”

... “he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes”.


94 posted on 05/20/2011 1:03:40 PM PDT by albie
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To: Libloather
This Goldberg guy is just another liberal phoney that thinks Obama is some kind of freakin' king and that Bibi Netanyahu didn't bow down to him so little Jeffy is all upset. Boo Hoo. That Americans still keep Obama's approval numbers in the 40's is disturbing. His transparently anti-Israel words and actions are bringing a serious armed conflict in the middle east closer to a reality. One that will affect Americans far more than some seem to realize. Yet dopes like The Atlantic's Jeffery Goldberg seem to think that if the Prime Minister of Israel doesn't kiss up to Obama while he makes inane statements about what Israel should do (commit national suicide) to secure a 'peace' that will never come, Netanyahu is somehow being 'disrespectful'. Only on your Utopian planet, Jeffery. Not here in the real world.
95 posted on 05/20/2011 1:05:55 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Libloather
Dear Bibi,

Please tell Zero to mange merde et morte.

Sincerely yours,
Tax-chick

p.s. I love you.

96 posted on 05/20/2011 1:10:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ( "Nearly everything Obama said was either factually incorrect or deliberately misleading." ~VDH)
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To: Libloather

Hey, Jeffie: turn around and reboard your cattle car, you moron!

Odumbo just made a speech telling Israel that the official position of the United States of America is that Israel should return to the Auschwitz borders, which are even less capable of being defended now vs. 44 years ago because of improvements in weapons technology. He said to return Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, the first of which would cut the heart out of Israel and the second of which would mean a guaranteed loss of many thousands of men in a war, if not outright defeat followed by genocide.

But, no matter, little Jeffie thinks that Bibi was disrespectful. Stupid ghetto Jew, its people like you that are responsible for millions of our brethren being massacred over the millenia. Rot in Hell, you self-hating Jew!


97 posted on 05/20/2011 1:11:18 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: “It’s not going to happen.”)
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To: driftdiver

“Of course BO is a zero, you’re missing the point”.

...no point missed here. He’s less than “zero”. He’s a usurper. He may as well have taken a crow bar and broken into the oval office window. He deserves no respect. Purposely disrespectful of and ignorent of the constitution makes it so.


98 posted on 05/20/2011 1:11:26 PM PDT by albie
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To: hosepipe

amen to that!!!


99 posted on 05/20/2011 1:14:12 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Libloather
"expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both House of Congress."

How did this become "disrespect?"
Does Goldstein want to make a joke of Congressional actions (prior to the fake president?)

Goldstein, please cease and desist immediately, disrespecting the intelligence of American citizens.

Being ignorant and clueless, what you think doesn't mean squat.

100 posted on 05/20/2011 1:15:14 PM PDT by Publius6961 (you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
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