Posted on 03/18/2015 1:27:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
After staying mum on Israeli issues in the run-up to the election, the White House on Wednesday broke its silence -- answering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's victory with fresh criticism and making clear that a new rift has opened between U.S. and Israeli leaders, this time over Palestinian statehood.
In its first public response to Netanyahu's election triumph, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said President Obama still believes in a two-state solution. This was after Netanyahu, shortly before the vote, reversed his stance and stated he would not allow the creation of a Palestinian state.
Earnest acknowledged Wednesday that the U.S. would have to "re-evaluate" its position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in light of those comments. But he stressed that Obama believes a two-state solution is best. And State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki clarified that the administration "absolutely" will continue to push for this.
Further, Earnest chided Netanyahu's Likud Party on Wednesday, saying the White House was "deeply concerned" about divisive language emanating from Likud. He said the party had sought to marginalize Israel's minority Arabs, an apparent reference to social media posts the Likud distributed that warned Israelis about the danger of high turnout by Arab voters.
"These are views the administration intends to convey directly to the Israelis," Earnest said.
The comments suggest there is likely to be no thaw in the chilly relationship between Netanyahu's administration and the White House.
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Pecisely. I pray the Israeli people know that the vast majority of this country is solidly with them.
Man-child Obama humiliates America.
I tell Israel I’m ashamed of my country. You’re worthier than we are.
The narcissist in chief lost, so he is taking his ball and going home.
Told u he would act like a petulant child.
Obama despises Israel and it is obvious. I hope Bibi doubles down and REALLY sticks his thumb in Osbama’s eye provoking him to reveal himself as a hater of the Jewish State.
I love it, anything that that get under the skin of the brown clown in the white hut makes my day and that goes double for the V/J snake.
Sorry folks! A little more than a year and a half of Obozo to endure.
Obozo = Practical JOKE on America.
Why would Bibi care what some low-rent 2nd-City bathhouse daisey has to say on this issue? LOL
“I paid you handsomely to fix that election for the Moslem Brotherhood.”
Which election was that?
The narcissist in chief lost, so he is taking his ball and going home.
No, he’s not. He’s scheming and planning the next move.
He is not a practical joke on America. He is a curse on America. There is nothing funny or amusing about Obama and his regime of thugs.
As usually, the childish little temper tantrum throwing brat bungled up another effort to impose his will on the international stage. It is no wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us for letting this stupid ignorant man-child into a position of power in our nation.
Yeah he is. He’s still all pissy over the loss
The two state “solution” has been dead for some time.
What the PM has done is acknowledge it, this puts
Israel in a stronger position. It’s time for the
other side to make concessions, or accept that
Gaza is palestine.
I disagree. Because he's not actually an American, he can't commit treason against us. But we are the fools for letting this foreign bastard get into a position of power in our nation.
The media did this, and I hope to see those people brought to rack and ruin for it some day.
Is it not true that Jordan was created as a Palestinian state? Then why do we need two Palestinian states?
Two kinds of muslim: sunni and shi'i'te. Sunni's are mostly seculars but shi'ite like this guy want to expedite the return of their so called 12th imam so he, too, wants the bomb.
“Pecisely. I pray the Israeli people know that the vast majority of this country is solidly with them.”
I disagree, the vast majority doesn’t care.
Why do I have to even think of this? I worry about Obama and his continued planned destruction of America. Our kids, grand-kids and generations unborn survivability are at stake. I was hoping after the election Congress would Stop Obama, but they seem impotent. At least Cotton et al spoke up.
Makes you so damn mad we have to even think of all these end time scenarios with Obama, both foreign and domestic.
600 Days! With something every day, will we make it?
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