Posted on 03/20/2010 4:36:35 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
President Barack Obama's team hope to push Right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu into a coalition which will put peace talks on track.
For Jewish settler families, there is nothing controversial about the plans to erect 1,600 new homes. But for Washington they represent an insult that has reduced relations between the United States and Israel to their lowest ebb in a generation. The friendship that has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy for 40 years and sustained a small democracy in a perilously hostile neighbourhood has moved on to novel, shaky ground.
Rather than peace process, the new buzz phrase in Washington is "regime modification", as the Obama administration examines how it can force a rupture in the ruling right-wing coalition and put talks between the Israelis and Palestinians back on a real meaningful track.
Israel chose to announce the expansion of Ramat Shlomo as Joe Biden, the US vice president, was in the Holy Land to clinch an agreement to relaunch indirect negotiations which were regarded as the first albeit limited sign of progress of the Obama era.
Initially Mr Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, shook hands and made up. But inside the White House there is no appetite for reconciliation. Under the direction of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, was ordered to give Mr Netanyahu a telephonic dressing down in which she demanded the homes plan be rescinded.
Mr Obama has invested his prestige heavily in securing peace deal in the Middle East that has eluded his predecessors – saying it would happen two years from taking office – and this was the latest but greatest rebuke Mr Netanyahu had delivered.
"Behind his cool detached demeanour, there is a part of Obama that is easily frustrated, almost arrogant
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Netanyahu should tell Obama and the UN to go to hell.
Under the direction of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, was ordered to give Mr Netanyahu a telephonic dressing down in which she demanded the homes plan be rescinded.
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Totally disgusting. But not unexpected. Can you imagine what is going through the minds of what few allies America has left? Hey Taiwan, what about this? Make you feel warm and fuzzy?
FBO.
Bibi should say, “Yeah, I will do that as soon as you pay reparations to those indians who sold you Manhatten, because you did not pay fair market value for it!”
Flashback:
Jesse Jackson: Obama will end Zionist rule in America
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/jesse-jackson-obama-will-end-zionist-rule-in-america/
Note to Zer0: The peasants are restless.
American Jews voted for this. Israel, you’re on your own.
How’s that ‘rat “smart” diplomacy working out H?
Just as Obama is willing (if not eager) to help drive the Israelis into the sea, he is willing (if not eager) to destroy American civilization and replace it with his own notion of paradise.
He has also ramped up the war in Afghanistan. That is his baby now! So we can say things like “Obama’s endless war” and
“Hey! Hey! Barack H. How many Afghans killed today!”
Or something like that. But there is no doubt about it. When he wants to use the power of the United States to pursue a goal he will. Otherwise, he will continue to diminish that power because he despises America.
Ping
Kinda like Pol Pot, huh?
He won’t lift a finger to help those who want regime change in Iran, but he’s putting the screws to Israel. The man is pure evil.
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