Posted on 06/14/2010 4:31:10 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Although Israeli officials publicly play down the crisis in relations between Jerusalem and Washington, privately the language is much different. Sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Obama as a “strategic catastrophe” for Israel.
Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, speaking on condition of anonymity to the nation’s top newspapers, see the Obama administration as a serious threat to the future of the State of Israel. On the record, Israel and the US have a “strategic partnership that is unbreakable”; off the record, the terminology is blunt to say the least.
“President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have drawn a clear line, supporting the Palestinian position at the expense of Israel,” said one Netanyahu confidant. “It is insane, it is sick. Relations between Jerusalem and Washington are simply disastrous; the situation has never been so dangerous. This US President wants to establish a Palestinian state at any price and hand them Jerusalem on a silver platter.”
Netanyahu has repeatedly distanced himself from such statements, but commentators say the government speaks with a forked tongue. “Israel’s relations with the US are at a low point, and Obama poses a danger to Israel,” wrote Nahum Barnea in the nation’s biggest newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
The feeling among the Israeli public is that Obama is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel. “The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV. That could explain why Obama has instructed that the term “Islamic extremism” no longer be used in official government documents and statements.
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“The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
The sheer idiocy from this POTUS is beyond astounding.....
Well, if this is true...I can’t wait to see the MSM spin this.
This comes as no surprise to me. All along I knew he was a member of ‘the religion of peace.’
Perhaps it’ll cause a few other to see the light.
Even the US Congress considers Obama’s behavior toward Netanyahu humiliating. Three-quarters of the House of Representatives, 337 of 435 members, signed a bipartisan letter to Clinton expressing “deep concern over recent tension” between the two countries, and demanding that it be smoothed over quickly and in private.“Obama is a real problem for Israel,” a senior official told told Yediot. “He is Israel’s biggest strategic catastrophe.”
The newspaper also quoted another official who believes that for the first time Washington has switched sides. “The Obama White House is putting pressure only on Israel but does not expect anything from the Palestinians,” he said. “These American demands are unacceptable.”
“The Americans know very well that Israeli construction has always been happening in East Jerusalem and building in Jewish neighborhoods has never been frozen,” said another official. “The Americans use excuses like [the Jewish neighborhood of] Ramat Shlomo and the Shepherd Hotel [another Jewish building project in East Jerusalem] to confront Netanyahu.”
So during Passover, Netanyahu invited Nobel Obama, a ‘Strategic Catastrophe’ Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to his private residence in Caesaria. He urged Wiesel, who is an American citizen, to make it clear ot his good friend Obama how important Jerusalem is to the Jewish people.
“Jerusalem was, is and always will be the united capital of Israel,” said Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. “Construction in all parts of Jerusalem will continue.”
According to a poll by the Independent Media Review & Analysis, 70 percent of Israeli Jews oppose a construction freeze in East Jerusalem, compared to only 19 percent who support it. The survey also found that 69 percent believe the division of Jerusalem with international control of the Old City would lead to ongoing conflict rather than peace.
Officials in Netanyahu’s inner circle believe Obama’s strategy is to force a change of government in Israel. By forcing Israeli concessions on the “settlement” issue, hawks could bolt the coalition, pushing Netanyahu into an alliance with the dovish Kadima party. Kadima is led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who, under the previous Olmert government, offered the Palestinians an independent state in 97 percent of the disputed territories with a capital in East Jerusalem.
Obama has been buoyed by his domestic success in passing the historic health care reform bill. And he may believe that he can extend that victory to the international arena by resolving the Middle East conflict. But if Obama continues to underestimate Israeli resolve on Jerusalem, his peace efforts are doomed to failure.
By Aviel Schneider
Somehow if a guy’s first two names are Baraq Hussein, you might have a hint as to his religious preference.
We certainly need some confirming sources...but draw your own conclusions until that time.
If what he said is true then that would explain allot.
Obama said the family does not attend a Christian Church because it would cause to much brew ha ha. I guess so if your supposed to be at the Mosque.
Obama doesn’t come right out and lie about things in his personal life that are a conflict to the Office of POTUS he just keeps everything closeted.
No worries he will be sent packing back to Chicago or Hawaii in two more years.
Personally, I think Obama is the worst president in American history.
He makes Jimmy Carter look positively brilliant by comparison!
He even makes Richard Nixon look great by comparison too!
Obama is a complete and utter failire as president, an unmitigated disaster.
He will go down in history as the worst US president ever!
Even beating such presidents as the aforementioned Carter and Nixon, not to mention Warren Harding and Ulysses S. Grant!
“The sheer idiocy from this POTUS is beyond astounding.....”
It’s not idiocy. It’s intent.
The liberal meme at Harvard was:
1. Western colonies are bad.
2. Israel is just another Western colony.
3. Israel has no right to exist.
Obama bought into this. He wants Israeli Jews dead.
Well, Bibi, you have company. He’s a strategic catastrophe for America too.
Hell, he makes Benedict Arnold look great by comparison.
What excuse did Obama use to cancell the last meeting here with Netenyaho?
It was after the left Netenyaho to go eat in private quarters embarrassment/incident.
Hey, Harding and Grant were Washington and Lincoln compared to Obama.
Do not blaspheme by comparing the Kenyan to anybody but the later, madder Roman emperors. Like, say, Caligula, Nero or Elagabulus, all of whom believed they were gods.
“Well, if this is true...I can’t wait to see the MSM spin this.”
Spin? The MSM will merely hit the ignore button. If they did not witness it, it did not happen and is not newsworthy. Exception to this rule is Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate or adoption by an Indonesian (step?) father.
LOL Keep watching kiddies, you aint seen nuttin, yet!
“Somehow if a guy’s first two names are Baraq Hussein, you might have a hint as to his religious preference”
You’ll have to excuse the trusting American voters...it was so obvious it could not possibly be true.
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