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What Bibi Gains by Misrepresenting Obama's Mideast Policy [Joe Klein guns for a Nina Burleigh award]
TIME ^ | Thursday, May 26, 2011 | Joe Klein

Posted on 05/26/2011 7:46:57 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man

Of all the petty annoyances, misdemeanors and felonies of public life, there is none that Barack Obama detests more than to have his words twisted or oversimplified. It is a big part of his frustration with the media; it is a bigger part of his disdain for the talk-show wing of the Republican Party. And so it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, willfully misinterpreted Obamas statement about the need to renegotiate Israels borders — in Obamas presence, in the Oval Office on May 20. The President had said that a two-state solution, which Netanyahu alleges to support, should be based on the pre-1967 borders, with mutually agreed-upon land swaps that would enable Israel to incorporate the vast majority of its — dare I say — illegal settlements into its territory while giving over equal amounts of Israeli turf to the Palestinians.

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The swapping of borderlands was at the heart of Bill Clintons nearly successful attempt to negotiate a peace deal in 2000. It was at the heart of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts nearly successful effort to negotiate peace with the Palestinians in 2008.

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Why on earth would Bibi Netanyahu choose to be so boorish and provocative? Because he can be.

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He also has a stronger argument this time around. The apparent reconciliation of the Palestinian factions allows Netanyahu to focus on Israels greatest fear: when push comes to shove, the Palestinians have never really acknowledged Israels right to exist.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; israel; joeklein; kneepads; netanyahu; ninaburleigh; obamaforeignpolicy; obamamideastpolicy; time; time4antisemite; time4obama; timeantisemitism; waronterror
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Didn’t Obama in his second speech call for connecting Gaza and the West Bank?? Slicing Israel in half isn’t going to affect security at all?.

“misrepresent” means tell the truth


21 posted on 05/26/2011 7:58:46 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Wouldnt' expect anything more from Kneepads Klein.
22 posted on 05/26/2011 8:00:10 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Obama accuses Bibi of creating Jewish strawman.
23 posted on 05/26/2011 8:00:44 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Obviously Time is not on Bibi's side.
24 posted on 05/26/2011 8:00:56 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Tex-Con-Man
"And so it wasnt hard to imagine..."

"Imagine"? If Joe is observing something so outrageous, why doesn't Joe write an article based on facts, not imaginings?
25 posted on 05/26/2011 8:01:17 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: Tex-Con-Man

This is some funny stuff!
Rarely have I seen such groveling from a columnist. I think Klein’s been sharing a hot tub with Barry.


26 posted on 05/26/2011 8:01:42 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: sr4402

Time=The death rattle of the American weekly news magazine.


27 posted on 05/26/2011 8:01:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
And so it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, willfully misinterpreted Obamas statement about the need to renegotiate Israels borders.

IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.

28 posted on 05/26/2011 8:02:03 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (For love of Sarah, our country and the American Way of Life.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Nathan Bedford's first maximum of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

How does that maxim relate to Joe Klein's article?

First, the article is simply factually wrong. It was not Be Be Netanyahu who misrepresented Obama's remarks but Obama himself who misrepresented his own remarks as he walked them back. So what prompted Joe Klein to write lies?

If one recalls Joe Klein was the anonymous author of Primary Colors an account of the emerging Bill Clinton which nailed Clinton for the utter fraud that he was but forgave him all because of Clinton's poignant empathy for African-Americans which obviously profoundly impressed Joe Klein.

Joe Klein is the blatant example of left-wing American journalism that is utterly in the tank for Barack Obama because Obama is liberal and black. Klein would accept any fault in Bill Clinton because Clinton was later to be defined as the first black president. So, Klein will excuse any fault, commit any journalistic sin, to defend the first real black president.

There is nothing, repeat nothing, in Joe Klein's world that cannot be rationalized by way of racial politics.


29 posted on 05/26/2011 8:02:41 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: DrNo
Mr. Klein has a real talent for unintentional mind pictures.
‘it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears’
Now would that be of the regular chain smoking cigarette variety or the remains of his lucrative crack cocaine business? Photoshop would be great here.
And coming out those Gigantic Ears!!
Keep writing, Mr. Kline! You might get to replace Mr. Biden as court jester.
TWB
30 posted on 05/26/2011 8:03:20 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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To: DrNo
Mr. Klein has a real talent for unintentional mind pictures.
‘it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears’
Now would that be of the regular chain smoking cigarette variety or the remains of his lucrative crack cocaine business? Photoshop would be great here.
And coming out those Gigantic Ears!!
Keep writing, Mr. Klein! You might get to replace Mr. Biden as court jester.
TWB
31 posted on 05/26/2011 8:04:26 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Obama: I want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders.

Netanyahu: So, you are saying you want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders.

Joe Klein: STOP MISREPRESENTING WHAT OBAMA SAID!!!!!

32 posted on 05/26/2011 8:04:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Is it the case that Barry was a not-yet-6 year old during the Six Day War in June 1967, and living in (or headed to) Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation?


33 posted on 05/26/2011 8:06:36 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Louis Foxwell
IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.

Who knew that Obama and Newt suffer from the same "I am so brilliant, common people don't understand me, so I have to re-explain myself repeatedly" disorder?

34 posted on 05/26/2011 8:07:04 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: plangent
This President is so vague in concept and hollow in expression that there is nothing he says that he can’t wriggle out of.

Oh yeah? Ubama was pretty darn clear about "hope" and "change", wasn't he?

35 posted on 05/26/2011 8:07:15 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Tex-Con-Man

F.A.R.T. alert!


36 posted on 05/26/2011 8:07:29 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Photobucket
37 posted on 05/26/2011 8:09:44 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Tex-Con-Man

The old Soviet Union Pravda was more critical of their leaders than the current MSM journo-lists are of Barky.


38 posted on 05/26/2011 8:09:57 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Joe Klein attempts to misrepresent the truth, again, should be the headline, or (alternate headline) Joe Klein buys knee pads prior to White House visit.
39 posted on 05/26/2011 8:11:58 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: combat_boots
F.A.R.T. alert!

ummm...thanks for the warning?!?

40 posted on 05/26/2011 8:13:00 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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