Posted on 03/19/2015 12:08:00 AM PDT by Dave346
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had a poisonous relationship long before Mr. Netanyahu swept to victory on Tuesday night in elections watched minute-by-minute at the White House.
But now that Mr. Netanyahu has won after aggressively campaigning against a Palestinian state and Mr. Obama’s potential nuclear deal with Iran, the question is whether the president and prime minister can ever repair their relationship — and whether Mr. Obama will even try.
On Wednesday, part of the answer seemed to be that the president would not make the effort.
In strikingly strong criticism, the White House called Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign rhetoric, in which he railed against Israeli Arabs because they went out to vote, an attempt to “marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens” and inconsistent with the values that bind Israel and the United States. The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, told reporters traveling with Mr. Obama on Air Force One on Wednesday that Mr. Netanyahu’s statement was “deeply concerning and it is divisive and I can tell you that these are views the administration intends to communicate directly to the Israelis.”
And with Mr. Netanyahu’s last-minute turnaround against a Palestinian state alongside Israel, several administration officials said that the Obama administration may now agree to passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution embodying the principles of a two-state solution that would include Israel’s 1967 borders with Palestine and mutually agreed swaps of territory.
Those borders, the subject of contentious negotiations for decades, include the West Bank, occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. Most foreign policy experts say that Israel would have to cede territory to the Palestinians in exchange for holding on to major Jewish settlement blocks in the West Bank.
Such a Security Council resolution would be anathema to Mr. Netanyahu.
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Obama has tried to push Israel around.
He will find the Jewish State unyielding where its survival is concerned.
Obama loves our enemies and hates our friends.
Clearly, we have a domestic enemy of the United States in charge of the government of the United States.
Quite frightening.
In fact, I’d be terrified if I didn’t know the God Who is in charge of the whole universe.
Obama has no idea what kind of a can of worms he is opening up. A vast majority of the US population is ready to stand with Bibi rather than the Star Wars Cantina also known as the UN.
The “community organizer” screwed with the wrong man. End story.
My guess is (insert your opinion here) is more important than trying.
You think? Imam Obamessiah HATES Israel, the Jews and Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu! So apart from reality there is little to no possibility Imam Hussain Obozo will do anything to rectify the situation but make matters infinitely worse by allowing Iran to continue on it’s Satanically inspired mission of obtaining nuclear weapons in it’s unending quest to destroy Israel, the Jews and the United States... all goals and objectives Imam Hussain Obozo, the Democrats and his “administration agree with. Tagline
I 100% reject the premise of the story.
Who thinks he wants to? Good grief. The spin is sickening.
The time has come to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
But first we have to get Barack Obama out of the White House.
“Obama May Find It Impossible to Mend Frayed Ties to Netanyahu”
NYT must be taking its genius Captain Obvious pills again.
Zer0 has made his bed and now he must lie in it. As Dick Cheney said, “I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question—and that’s saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation—it’s a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.”
Obama could give a shxt period. The Man Child is upset things didn’t go his way so the rest of us will bear the ills of whatever his response will be.
Exactly...Obama will not/can not go any farther than God allows him to go...
Man Child? More like childish man. So now he’s going to take his marbles and sulk in the corner. Anybody got a pacifier for the baby?
Identify, criticize, ridicule, marginalize.
With any luck the marbles will look like skittles and he chokes.
Obama never did want to mend (or maintain) ties with Israel. It is against his religion.
0bama happens.......thanks to the collective stupidity and dependency of the electorate.
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