Posted on 10/29/2014 10:55:47 AM PDT by Dave346
What does the Obama administration hope to accomplish by trashing Israel in the press? This is the most important question after an apparently coordinated wave of anonymous quotes welled up in Tuesday’s press. Relations with Israel have steadily worsened over the course of Obama’s presidency, and little of what was said was out of step with some views being expressed in broader policy circles. But why say it, and why now?
The wave began Monday night, with Foreign Policy’s Gopal Ratnam saying that the White House was “undermining” Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon during his recent visit to the United States by denying him access to several key officials. This wasn’t surprising—Yaalon had called Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic,” among other insults. But the tone of the snub was sharp. Ratnam quotes “a pro-Israel congressional aide,” who we can reasonably assume is a Democrat close to the administration, saying of Yaalon that “there is a limit to how much you can shit all over the White House and expect to get every meeting you want...I don't know why the Israelis continue to feel the need to express their disagreements in offensive terms with this administration.”
But the executive excreta fell much thicker on Tuesday afternoon in a column by the influential journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who quoted “a senior Obama administration official” calling Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” Goldberg asked “another senior official who deals with the Israel file regularly” about this assessment, and the official “agreed that Netanyahu is a ‘chickenshit’ on matters related to the comatose peace process, but added that he’s also a ‘coward’ on the issue of Iran’s nuclear threat.”
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Obama made it clear since his first month in office that he hated Israel. This is a DUH moment.
The Sultan, like all other presidents before him back to at least Nixon, wants to solve the ME problem. The Sultan’s approach is new. He wants to fix the problem by re-identifying it as a “Jewish” problem and then solving it with his lead being taken from not wholly successful methods of the past. No Jews=no Jewish problem.
He has only two years left to kill the damJoos. He’s mouthing off so badly because he’s getting desperate.
Wow, you read the comments over there?
Seems that Israel should be glad 0vomit hasn’t nuked them yet.
Years of great relations and now this and it is Netanyahu’s fault.
Leftists only attack those who can’t or won’t fight back. Obama’s unspoken faith in the Israelis as a restrained and decent people enables his vicious abuse of them.
History will prove this out...
Ebola is raging across Africa and what do they do? They appoint an Ebola Czar who does not show up to meetings. He seems to have appointed him so that he doesn't have to do anything about it before the election and hopes Ebola will go away after the election.
Look at how he "handled" the Jobs and Borders Situation. Has he done anything to solve these? Not hardly - never let a good crisis go to waste. So he just keeps accumulating them.
The only problem is he is pissing a lot of folks off along the way.
And then he got the DNC to downgrade Jerusalem as not being the capitol of Israel during the 2012 Democrat convention. And the demoncraps voted it into their platform. Why?
BB: I'm rubber you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks on you. (I don't know sure sounds more like a quote ABOUT a White House official)
“What does the Obama administration hope to accomplish by trashing Israel in the press?”
Fanning the flames of worlwide anti-Semitism.
Next stupid question.
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