When They Were Young Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu
Posted on 10/28/2014 3:32:37 PM PDT by SJackson
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Report in The Atlantic quotes two officials who question the PM's ability to act on either the peace process or the Iranian nuclear issue.
The administration of US President Barack Obama has expressed its displeasure over Israel's recent announcement that it would be building more housing units in east Jerusalem, but now reported name-calling directed at Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be added to the tensions between the two allies.
Jeffrey Goldberg, diplomatic correspondent for The Atlantic, reported Tuesday that he recently spoke to a senior Obama administration official about, "the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most." The unnamed official reportedly told Goldberg: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit.”
“The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars,” the official said.
“The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he’s not [Ariel] Sharon, he’s certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He’s got no guts.”
Goldberg quoted another official who reportedly agreed with the first official's assessment but added that Netanyahu was also a "coward" on the Iranian nuclear threat issue.
The second official reportedly told Goldberg that the "Obama administration no longer believes that Netanyahu would launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities."
“It’s too late for him to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. Now it’s too late.”
“The feeling now is that Bibi’s bluffing,” the second official reportedly added.
Presuming the administration doesn’t want to see an Israeli strike on Iran, taunting isn’t the way to advance that policy. One things for sure, if it happens, Obama will read about it in the paper, trust is gone.
And the big, brave members of the Obama administration did exactly what to stop the Iranian nuke program?
What a joke these people are!
When They Were Young Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu
Wow - is that Netanyahu?
Be still my heart. Yowser.
Just what you would expect from the administration of a sockcuking futtbucker! I am so depressed and saddened that I live in an America that has a resident in the White House that is such a little bitch!
What a classical education will do for you when learned at the feet of the (chicken crap eating and obomanation, a.k.a.) Child-In-Chief.
The obamanation of America’s desolation is a misery to any right minded person.
The strange thing is that here in the US and the West in general Bibi is regarded as this tough-as-nails hawk, but in Israel many on the right agree with the sentiments expressed by these Obama officials.
Netanyahu had an opportunity and complete public backing (during the conflict) to crush Hamas, yet he didn’t do it. Worse to many, it appears he is perfectly happy letting Hamas fester in Gaza rather than take them out.
On Iran, it probably is too late. Bibi talked a big game, but at this stage it does in fact appear he was bluffing.
Ofcourse Netanyahu is vastly better than anyone in the Obama administration when it comes to these issues - and perhaps he has made wise decisions in not going all out against terrorists and rogue states, but Bibi as a political leader isn’t quite the tough guy he is perceived to be in the West.
There are many on the right in Israel who aren’t happy at all with how he has dealt with Hamas in Gaza, particularly how willing he was (over and over again) to accept a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities without a complete victory. Much of the violence has simply moved to the West Bank now, and many question whether degrading Hamas rather than destroying them was particularly worthwhile.
Pot calling kettle black
The chickensh!ts are in the Whitehouse!
They are enabling the Iranian nuke program and daring Bibi to take it out!
They know they screwed the pooch on this one (as they have with so many other “issues”), and they’re goading Bibi to take up their slack.
I think they know Bibi is ready to pounce on Iran, and are trying to set it up to make it look like Bibi took their bait. While all the while they just want Bibi to do what they don’t have the balls themselves to do.
Bibi wss hot! My mother had a crush on him and one time she walked up to him when he was at an outdoor café in Manhattan and talked to him while I stood aside, red-faced and embarrassed at her flattery!
And it filters down to the the feeding floor where the MSM lives.
Pot calling kettle black
I am going to guess that the clown that said it is black.
There are a lot of assertions in your post. Do you care to back them up with any factual evidence?
And don’t forget that American pressure, even from an America under a loser like Obama, is a formidable thing for Bibi to have to deal with.
Why do Mexican nationals have a more legitimate claim to US soil than the Israeli’s have on Jerusalem? Would a liberal please explain that to me?
Yes, read the Israeli papers - all of the major ones I mean. Look at the polling. Do you doubt Bibi could have crushed Hamas? Yet he didn't. The Israeli public overwhelmingly wanted him to finish off Hamas and his poll numbers plummeted when failed to do.
If you read my post with any level of thoroughness, you'd see that I said Bibi's decisions may have been wise - but the idea in the West that he is a military hawk is just not shared by those on the right in Israel whom many of us here would identify with.
There is a chickenshit coward in this story alright, but it isn't Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has been to war. He fought on the front lines. He lead commando attacks behind enemy lines. He was shot in action. He has seen his friends and compatriots die.
He knows the horror of war first hand. He doesn't have to prove his courage to anyone.
Especially to some snot-nosed, limp-wristed, Obama loving, chickenshit liberal Nancy-Boy faggot. Someone who who doesn't even have the guts to identify himself and criticizes Netanyahu annonymously while sitting safely on his ass in Washington, DC, guarded by the secret service, the US Capitol Police, and the entire US Military.
It's likely that the biggest action this cowardly butt pimple has ever faced has been soap dropping night in the Chicago bath house with Obama and Reggie.
Perhaps you’re right. Israel does need to end dependence on America, however I think soon it will swing back in their favor. Change is on the wind, everyone can feel it.
However, I think if Israel gave citizenship to any civilians of western countries say......if said citizen served in the IDF for X amount of time. That Israel would gain a whole lot of reliable, dependable American citizens. I would seriously consider it, if I wasn’t so out of shape.
And the pressure from Obama’s America does not factor into his decisions at all?
Destroy Hamas? Do you really think that that would have went over well on the world stage?
About as classy as those who voted for it.
Along with Bibi kicking the living sh_t out of 0dumb0, I would LOVE to see Putin drop-kick 0dumb0’s skinny kenyan ass from one end of a room to the other. I would support and back either Bibi or Putin a thousand times over the kenyan muslim POS 0dumb0!!!
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