Posted on 01/28/2015 6:29:01 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN he will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in March because his trip to Washington comes too close to Israel's upcoming elections.
"I'm declining to meet with him simply because our general policy is, we don't meet with any world leader two weeks before their election," Obama told Fareed Zakaria in an interview which will air Sunday and of which excerpts were released Wednesday.
"I think that's inappropriate, and that's true with some of our closest allies," he added.
The President said the United States and Britain had to quickly to put together a trip to Washington for Prime Minister David Cameron this month for the same reason Obama wasn't meeting with Netanyahu. Cameron didn't want to make it closer to his country's May elections.
"He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale," Obama said
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Horsefeathers.
(just saying)
Horse Feathers...
Great minds think alike :-)
He learned about it on the news?
Isaiah 3:4 in action.
I think that Bibi prefers to not meet with Obama anyway.
but you’ll send people to Israel to try to defeat Netanyahu
BUT ... Obama sure would like to get rid of Netanyahu!
Spot on! ...you two seem to think alike.
Completely agree.
I don’t even often comment on Israel matters. But Obama has seriously strayed away from supporting this current government recently, and I oppose Obama.
So I support Netanyahu.
(besides, the guy does sort of routinely do the right thing)
Gee you have to be quick with the posts here!
What a lame *** excuse.
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obamas not a world leader anyway. they all know hes a buttwad.
The boy is lying again. The lowlife, antisemitic Kenyan sent his goon squad over to Israel to make sure Bibi isn’t elected.
Barrack Hussein Obama has a cousin named Raila Odinga and they are both from the same Kenyan Luo tribe. Odinga was educated in former Soviet controlled East Germany and maintains a strong loyalty to the vision of his Educators and has allied with Islamist in order to gain their political support.
Let's be fair now... Ø only said HE wouldn't interfere. But, that doesn't mean that others won't interfere... that he sends, at taxpayer expense, carrying out his orders. So, technically, Ø is telling the truth! /tongue-n-cheek
Why would Netanyahu want to talk to that idiot in the WH? No one in their right mind would.
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