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Crisis brewing in Israeli-US relations
Houston Chronicle ^ | November 9, 2013 | JOSEF FEDERMAN

Posted on 11/09/2013 1:53:43 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

JERUSALEM (AP) — A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a high-profile visit by President Barack Obama early this year.

Tensions burst into the open during a swing through the region by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. In an interview broadcast on both Israeli and Palestinian TV, Kerry questioned Israel's seriousness about peace with the Palestinians. Hours later Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back, vowing not to cave into concessions to the Palestinians — and also saying he "utterly rejects" an emerging nuclear deal between world powers and Iran.

The rancor signals a tough road ahead for the twin American goals of finding a diplomatic solution for Iran's nuclear program and forging peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And it raises the specter of a return to the uncomfortable relationship that has often characterized dealings between Obama and Netanyahu.

Israeli news reports describe Netanyahu as being in "shock" over the possible Iranian compromise. Netanyahu, who sees Iran as an arch-enemy, has vowed to do anything, including a military strike, to prevent Iran from reaching weapons capability.

"If there were a synoptic map for diplomatic storms, the National Weather Service would be putting out a hurricane warning right now,".....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; johnkerry; nucleariran
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Everything this administration touches turns to S[excrement]T.
1 posted on 11/09/2013 1:53:44 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Our friends list will be down to Venezuela, Cuba and Iran in January 2017.


2 posted on 11/09/2013 1:59:28 PM PST by lurk
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe the Mossad will take care of our problem while taking care of theirs.....


3 posted on 11/09/2013 1:59:51 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

My hubby and I were up at 2 o’clock in the morning talking about the sad state our country is in. Domestic front is a total disaster and we have never been hated or in as much jeopardy in the world as we are now. We could find nothing good to come of any of this. We had a nightmare, but we were awake.

This happens often anymore.


4 posted on 11/09/2013 2:02:19 PM PST by dforest
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To: dforest
My hubby and I were up at 2 o’clock in the morning talking about the sad state our country is in. Domestic front is a total disaster and we have never been hated or in as much jeopardy in the world as we are now. We could find nothing good to come of any of this. We had a nightmare, but we were awake.

This happens often anymore.


You too, huh? You're not alone.
5 posted on 11/09/2013 2:03:32 PM PST by Nowhere Man (I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I question the Muzzie ‘rabs interest in peaceful living next to Israel.


6 posted on 11/09/2013 2:07:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: dforest

Bump!


7 posted on 11/09/2013 2:08:14 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dforest

My wife and I have similar discussions.


8 posted on 11/09/2013 2:08:18 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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How do we let the Jewish people know that not all Americans agree with the Obama administration?
9 posted on 11/09/2013 2:11:21 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I wonder why...


10 posted on 11/09/2013 2:12:51 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Fascist President)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We send a traitor over to talk to the Israeli’s.
That traitor is on the side of the Palestinians.
He is on the side of the Palestinians because his boss is on the side of the Palestinians
Obama has told us—and showed us—many times in the past which side he is on. He has stated he is on the side of the Muslims.
He supplied weapons to Al Qaeda to use against Christians.

I will never forget nor forgive the United States Senate who voted to place this John Kerry common sonofabi*ch traitor and coward, who testified that our troops were baby killers before Congress, and they voted to endorse him with 96 votes. To me 96% of the Senate is totally worthless.
How could anyone in clear conscience vote to put this silver spooned POS into one of the highest offices in the land.


11 posted on 11/09/2013 2:13:00 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse."

Genesis 12:3

Don't plan any vacations based on your 401K.

12 posted on 11/09/2013 2:16:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Gator113

We are all really in the grips of bonafide evil now. Most of try to put on a tough face, but people are truly depressed because they see very little hope. My niece and her husband are in their early 40’s, and they have trouble sleeping because they have two teens. The common core stuff is being indoctrinated into their kids and it is not good. At night, they do nine indoctrination cleansing by finding out what was taught that day.

Jimmy Carter and “malaise” was minor compared to this monster movie we are in now.


13 posted on 11/09/2013 2:17:05 PM PST by dforest
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To: ExTexasRedhead

14 posted on 11/09/2013 2:18:11 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Obama administration began softening sanctions on Iran months ago effectively throwing Israel under the bus. How is that hopey changey thing working for the hoards of Jewish voters who rabidly supported “the one”?


15 posted on 11/09/2013 2:23:04 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

> JERUSALEM (AP) — A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a high-profile visit by President Barack Obama early this year.

Israel stopped listening to his words and broken promises and started judging him by his actions. Obama will tell a lie anytime, anywhere, and place if it suits his needs. He’s an expert at Taqiyya.


16 posted on 11/09/2013 2:41:32 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Nowhere Man

> You too, huh? You’re not alone.

None of us are anymore. People’s futures and jobs have been decimatec by this thief in the night who came to steal, kill, and destroy the Anerican Dream anyway he can. He promised people hope. We just diidn’t realize he meant dashing any of our chances for hope and putting us in chains.


17 posted on 11/09/2013 2:46:12 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SkyPilot

That pic an’t be right. There are no horns...: )


18 posted on 11/09/2013 2:47:54 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: dhs12345

Barack Obama won a sizeable majority among Jewish voters here in the U.S. Apparently they don’t let any concerns they might have about Israel get in the way of their infatuation with a radical leftist political agenda here at home.


19 posted on 11/09/2013 2:50:03 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: dhs12345

I’m sure that Bibi Netanyahu is already well aware that this cozying up to the Iranian terrorist state is all up to Obama and his band of criminal thugs and not the American people in general. Obama and Kerry are being played for dupes and fools by the Iranians while the world watches and laughs at our stupidity.

This will only steel the jaw of Netanyahu and the Israelis. They will cast Obama adrift, like he has done with them, and attack Iran’s nuclear facilities on their own, without permission from the Americans in order to protect the safety and security of the Jewish state, no matter what kind of bone-headed trap Obama and Kerry fall into with the Iranians.

This is what happens when you put a part-time community organizer in office, whose only foreign policy experience was living as a Muslim in Indonesia as a youth and traveling to Pakistan to rub elbows with his fellow radicals while in school. The Iranians are mocking him and Kerry by claiming that we shouldn’t miss this “exceptional opportunity” to make a deal on nuclear talks with them. And these two idiots will fall head over heels for the deal, like a couple of naive teenagers buying their first car from a sleazy used car salesman, while the Iranians are laughing all the way to the completion of their nuclear weapons capabilities.


20 posted on 11/09/2013 2:57:58 PM PST by HotHunt
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