The Obama-Netanyahu Feud

New York Sun ^ | October 29, 2014

[SJackson]

“Chickensh--t” is the word an aide at the State Department is using to describe Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic. Another Obama administration official calls the Israeli premier a “coward.” The officials lacked the courage to speak on the record, but if Mr. Goldberg reported they said it, you can take it to the bank. Another adjective the Atlantic legman says he’s heard used about Mr. Netanyahu is “aspergery,” meaning having difficulties with social intercourse. This about a leader who, in Mr. Netanyahu, has kept together a long-term coalition government in the planet’s liveliest parliamentary democracy. At least Secretary of State Kerry hasn’t likened Mr. Netanyahu to Genghis Khan.

The fault for “this breakdown in relations” lies, Mr. Goldberg reckons, with Mr. Netanyahu, who, the reporter’s sources tell him, has “written off” the Obama administration and “plans to speak directly to Congress and the American people should an Iran nuclear deal be reached.” It seems that Mr. Netanyahu intends to fight on what the Sun has called the most dangerous ground in the Middle East, namely the no-man’s-land between the White House and the Congress. Mr. Netanyahu has entered this minefield before, addressing Joint Meetings of Congress in 1996 after the Republican Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House and in 2011 after John Boehner did the same.

We’re tempted chalk this up as yet more evidence that the Republicans are the more logical partner for Israel. This goes back as far as 1972, when Yitzhak Rabin was Israel’s ambassador in Washington and conceived that President Nixon was a more realistic global thinker than the Democrats. We’re not convinced, though, that the issue is or ought to be partisan.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Well, Benjamin Netanyahu has a far, far better vocabulary and command of the English language than does BHO, and could, if he wished, find exactly the right words to describe BHO. But name calling is the only thing to which a man without any truth on his side can resort. Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) is the mentor of Hillary Clinton and the spiritual mentor of BHO. He taught his minions to call people names instead of argue issues. Diverting attention from the elephants in the living room is what Obama and his advisors and aides are doing. Attention needs to be refocused on the issues.

[windsorknot]

0bama is out of his league; he’s on the JV bench.