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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

(First Amendment Repression Team)

From Michelle McPhee, in Boston. Her term. From her Facebook posting. Caught fire on Boston radio, of all places.

I like it.


41 posted on 05/26/2011 8:15:08 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

“well that depends on the meaning of what is,is”

you mean like that Joe.............asshat


42 posted on 05/26/2011 8:15:43 AM PDT by advertising guy (new drink...a Bin Laden.......................2 shots with a splash of water)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
There is nothing lower than a self-loathing Jew
who will carry piss water for his over lord.

43 posted on 05/26/2011 8:16:37 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Why on earth would Bibi Netanyahu choose to be so boorish and provocative? Because he can be.

That's some hard hitting analysis there, Joe.

"Why is person X doing something? Because I don't know why, but it makes me SO angry I could just bite my pillow and cry myself to sleep!!1!!"

Hey, I have another idea. Maybe Bibi understands that Israel has national interests, and is furthering them. Explaining that to Congress, even by use of some clever statecraft and politicking, is what good executives do.

Obama thinks that flapping his lips without thinking first is the highest furthering of the American interest, and the leftist media agrees. They don't need to understand why anything happens, only to spin what happens in a way favorable to whatever Obama shot his fool mouth off over.

Joe, you're as tediously predictable as you are intellectually vapid and morally flexible.

44 posted on 05/26/2011 8:18:14 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
No Barf you lungs up alert? The following statement "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." actually translates to "There is nothing Bozo hates worse than having people tell the truth about his remarks.

The SOB is the biggest liar and whiner to ever contaminate the oval office.

45 posted on 05/26/2011 8:22:37 AM PDT by calex59
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To: plangent

If you read the story in the NYT 1/23/11 that accompamies Makovsky’s map you see that he believes the stumbling block to be the settlements and that is how he arrives at land swaps.Bibi clearly stated that security and defensible borders are the main goals of any settlement.Klein’s use of Makovsky’s map totally fails to understand that those proposed borders are,in fact, even less defensible in terms of Israeli lives than those in 67.


46 posted on 05/26/2011 8:28:50 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
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

Dear Joe Klien

As usual your article is an absurd exercise in DNC directed propaganda without the slightest hint of intellectual honesty or merit.

Only a brain dead moron mindlessly regurgitating the propaganda emailed him daily by the DNC could think the above statement you wrote was intellectually serious.

Pry your head out of 0's butt for a change Joe and TRY thinking about this issue.

The reason NONE of these efforts have BEEN SUCCESSFUL is because the Palestinians have NO INTENTION of ever co existing with Israel. So quit chasing the mythical nonsense dream of mid East peace. It takes 2 sides to make peace and only 1 side is serious here.

47 posted on 05/26/2011 8:34:14 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Joe, where did that dark brown ring around your neck come from. Is Obummers rear ok//??????


48 posted on 05/26/2011 8:40:32 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: MNJohnnie
I included that excerpt precisely because the term “nearly successful” would be a blinding red light alarm to most people, except apparently the author.

Klein seems completely uninterested in why those attempts failed.

49 posted on 05/26/2011 8:43:22 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Dear Joe,

It is very good of you to be so supportive of a culture that calls an entire race/population/religeon filth. How does it feel to know that you would have supported Hitler in the 30’s and 40’s because you are supporting the same evil today?


50 posted on 05/26/2011 8:48:23 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
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51 posted on 05/26/2011 9:05:17 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Tex-Con-Man
ARTICLE NEEDS A LITTLE FIXING:

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.

NO ONE HAS TO TWIST HIS WORDS, HIS ACTUAL QUOTES ARE BAD ENOUGH.

It is a big part of his frustration with the media;
FRUSTRATION?!?!? HE HAS THE MEDIA IN HIS BACK POCKET.

it is a bigger part of his disdain for the talk-show wing of the Republican Party, BECAUSE THEY TELL THE TRUTH UNLIKE 95% OF THE REST OF THE MEDIA?

And so it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, willfully TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT Obamas statement about the need to renegotiate Israels borders

Why on earth would Bibi Netanyahu choose to be so TRUTHFUL? Because he can be.

52 posted on 05/26/2011 9:12:13 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Obama new exactly what he was saying when he referred to the 1967 borders as the basis for negotiating - he was asking Israel to surrender a war they won.

Mel


53 posted on 05/26/2011 9:17:20 AM PDT by melsec
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To: denydenydeny

Let’s not forget that Obama cannot actually be held accountable for what he says because although clean and light skinned, he’s still Negro and we must always employ the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to his very existence. Ok then


54 posted on 05/26/2011 9:19:27 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
* I have proposed a Final Solution to the problem peace in the middle east.”*

Pax Obama in the mid-East

55 posted on 05/26/2011 9:24:18 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Time ceased to be a serious magazine years ago…


56 posted on 05/26/2011 9:25:25 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Darteaus94025
*why doesn't Joe write an article based on facts, not imaginings? *

Because facts are like Kryptonite to the Leftist media

57 posted on 05/26/2011 10:09:00 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Israel should give the Palestinians exactly NOTHING. The last time they were given anything—the Gaza Strip—they turned it into a hellhole and used it to launch attacks into Israel. No more. They get nothing until they can prove mature enough to handle being a state. That means acknowledging Israel’s right to exist, swearing off terrorism forever (and cracking down on it inside their borders), and demonstrating they can put together a functioning democratic government. Until then, they can rot.

}:-)4


58 posted on 05/26/2011 10:33:06 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: Tex-Con-Man
What Bibi Gains by Misrepresenting Obama's Mideast Policy

Which one Joe?
Before or after he was shown to be clueless?
Did you know there were two borders in June 1967?
Can you name ONE war in history where the loser (and instigator) demanded (and got) land lost as a result?

I will carefully read your column again and see if you identify specifically what was "misrepresented."

59 posted on 05/26/2011 10:36:03 AM PDT by Publius6961 (you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“Geesh, Joe, wipe your mouth... “

He won his first Nina Burleigh award during the 90’s when he blow-viated over Clinton.


60 posted on 05/26/2011 2:37:05 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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