Posted on 02/09/2015 10:07:03 PM PST by Nachum
More than a dozen congressional Democrats say they plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to a joint session of Congress amid conflicting signals over whether he will pull out from the March 3 address.
Netanyahu struck a defiant tone during a campaign event in Israel on Monday, saying he was determined to present the case for why Israel opposed the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran before the members of Congress and the American people.
This is not a political issue or a party issue, neither here nor there. This is an existential issue, and I approach it with the fullest responsibility, he said.
But multiple reports on Monday suggested that his office was weighing ways Netanyahu could alter his plans to mend what has become a tough diplomatic breach, and the Israeli leader did not explicitly mention the speech to a joint session in his public comments.
The White House has expressed frustration over the speech, which was scheduled by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) without consulting the administration.
Aides have said that the move was a violation of protocol both because the White House wasnt involved and because it comes just two weeks before Israels own elections a concern President Obama raised again Monday during a press conference.
I think its important for us to maintain these protocols because the U.S.-Israeli relationship is not about a particular party, Obama said.
Netanyahu has come under some criticism in Israel for politicizing the U.S.-Israeli relationship, and some of his public comments on Monday appeared aimed at combating that criticism.
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Good. Put your face on it. Sign your names, before GOD.
Bibi will cancel the speech and get nothing from Obama. Sounds fair to me.
Bump
The Party of Jew haters keeps on showing their true colors..Good, I am glad they are boycotting, show EVERYONE the face of the Jew Haters, maybe, just maybe some Jews in this country will get the point and never vote Democrat again, I know, wishful thinking
Hey, Netz, ever tried giving it the other way?
If my America turns on Israel and kills just one Jew it’s time for our elected to be strung from lamp-posts. PERIOD!
Excellent!
Now we’ll have an enumerated list of the anti-Semites in Congress.
Their intent is to make the news be about covering their boycott and not about the content of Netanyahu’s speech.
Seems to me, the Rats must now also boycott the Pope’s upcoming speech before Congress.
Any Jew that votes for this party supports another. Holocaust as far as I’m concerned. The Democratic Party has now made it official that they side with Islamo-Nazism.
For example?
The democraps that boycott Bibi’s speach will be a good list of the muslim loving communists in Congress!
These Rat filth gave the murderer Castro a standing ovation.
Hey, what would I know? Your giving your own folks, a hard time- about giving your own folks a hard time, is truthless now. Regardless, of the past. The “what’s the use”, excuse, is well dead. Homeland is your Israel, right? Speak as you will. Pray as you should. Act as one, no matter what
I know exactly who that line is poking.
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