Posted on 07/22/2009 6:54:23 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Last summer, in the course of a campaign speech reaching out to pro-Israel groups concerned about his commitment to the Jewish state, then presidential candidate Barack Obama declared, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." Those words, which he later qualified, may now be coming back to haunt the President as he seeks to restart the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process by getting Israel to freeze all construction outside its pre-1967 borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn a line in the sand over Jerusalem, vehemently rejecting Washington's demand that he halt a construction project in the Arab eastern portion of the city that was occupied by Israel in 1967. Israel claims sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, and Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that this claim was nonnegotiable.
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The problem facing Obama is that pressing for a two-state solution has put him at odds with a reluctant Israeli government that has now chosen the emotive issue of Jerusalem as the test of how far he's willing to go. If he backs down, Obama pulls the plug on his carefully crafted outreach to the Muslim world and can expect to see his effort to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fail before it has practically begun. But pressing ahead on Jerusalem and the wider peace agenda of which it forms part could, like pushing his health-care plan, come at a rising political cost for the President.
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Seems like a pretty good summary of the situation. These two leaders are facing off, whether Ozero wants to or not. It all started after Bibi went to DC and met with Ozero. After that, Bibi seemed to have summed up who Ozero was, and what he really wanted, and then Bibi decided he would have to stand his ground because he can, and because he has to.
What is Ozero going to do when construction continues in the "west bank" and east Jerusalem?
My money is on Bibi. Bambi will fold.
I’ll bet on Bibi a real man...
YUP!!!
Bibi’s a proven warrior.
Zero is a — ahhh — pu — er — vagina. (Can I say that?)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!TEAM BIBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WONDER WHAT BIBI IS THINKING? maybe who is this silly little back man?
The look says it all.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem July 22, 2009. Netanyahu rejected on Wednesday any notion he would order Israel's barrier in the West Bank torn down now in response to the absence of Palestinian attacks from the occupied territory.
When Bibi whips off the granny glasses, it must be serious.
Probably something like “Ooyyyyyyyyyyyy...this is the President? Of the United States? Oyyyyyyyyyyy......”
My prayers are also with Bibi.
ROFL that so true I think when Bibi take off the glasses you know what up
“ROFL that so true I think when Bibi take off the glasses you know what up”
His heart must be broken that this POtuS is what he got in the WH...
Bibi must be thinking that ozero is such a moronic arrogant clueless little spoiled boy.
Bibi will not allow Obama to dictate the agenda. He is keeping Obama off-balance, and that is in Israel’s best interests, given that we know what Obama is and who he sides with.
Obama tipped his hand regarding his loyalties when he speed-dialed Mahmoud Abbas as the first call of his presidency.
Bibi knows exactly how to handle this fraud. Obama is an featherweight fighter in a heavyweight ring.
Let the spirit of Bibi’s heroic brother (Yontan Netanyahu, hero of Entebbe) strengthen his loins for the battle with the evil, narcissistic Communist.
Nice to see Obama between a rock and a hard place in regards to Israel... :-)
Komrade Urkel is losing ground on his domestic initiatives and he is going to have to prove what a tough guy he is.
So expect him to get nasty (nastier than his usual nasty self) with Israel.
He seriously thinks he can push them around anyway he likes.
When he really starts to bully little Israel he might find that it to be the public relations disaster that really starts to sink his presidency in the US.
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