Obama Treating Netanyahu Like Dictator

[ftwspursfan]

Washington Post: Obama Treating Netanyahu Like Dictator
Reported: 06:13 AM - Mar/25/10

(IsraelNN.com) Growing criticism of the White House humiliation of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Jackson Dale, a leading political columnist for the Washington Post, writes today in his blog: "The White House is treating Netanyahu like the dictator of a third world country, someone that the U.S. needs for strategic reasons, but prefers not to get to close too." "The world will notice what is happening very quickly and respond in kind," he writes. "European countries can not be friendlier to Israel than the U.S. Would Britain have expelled a senior Israeli diplomat because of the fake British passports affair in Dubai if it were not for the rift between Obama and Netanyahu? Probably not.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/ ... spx/183270

[ftwspursfan]

I don't always think that Debka is a very reliable source but, in light of all this news tonight, I'm starting to wonder if they had some things right in this report they did on 3/18.

"However, in Jerusalem, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu called his inner cabinet into its second session on the crisis that same night. The seven ministers were asked to review the situation after President Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton turned down their initial proposals for easing the upset and laid down three pre-conditions for restoring normal relations with Jerusalem:
1.  The Netanyahu government must extend the 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction to include East Jerusalem;
2.  When the moratorium runs out in September, it must be renewed for the duration of peace negotiations with the Palestinians;
3. Israeli must make more concessions to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The Israeli government was informed that until those conditions were met, its ministers would not be received in Washington by high-level American officials - a virtual boycott, which downgrades the normal diplomatic, strategic and security exchanges between the two administrations to the level of senators and the special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
Netanyahu tried offering the Obama administration a number of compromise proposals, such as the suspension of construction in East Jerusalem and the city's outlying Jewish suburbs until September, but they were rejected, as was an offer to prohibit further Jewish purchases of land and buildings in Jerusalem's Arab districts during peace negotiations.
Obama and Clinton made it clear they would brook no departures from their three demands, which Israel is required to treat as an ultimatum.
Neither party to the difference has mentioned the US administration's fourth condition for resuming normal relations:  an Israeli commitment to refrain from attacking Iran's nuclear program without prior US consent. Because that commitment has not been offered, administration officials are continuing to hammer Israel in every possible arena. Indeed, the gloves are now off in earnest for insinuations that Israel's settlement policy is the root-cause of Iran's drive for a nuclear bomb and of the conflicts endangering American lives in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq."

see entire article on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=4192

[Just A Clay Pot]

If Israel had a lick of sense (and I suspect they have many such licks of sense) they should tell Obama to take a flying leap off any nearby cliff.

Where does Obama get the ego to think he has any right whatsoever to tell Israel to do anything?  We give them aid, but last I checked, that is...aid...not bribe money.

Oh, yeah...I remember where Obama gets that from.  

 That Israel remains stronger than we seem to be here in the U.S.  
 For Jerusalem's (and Israel's) peace under the reign of Jesus Christ.
 That Obama and his family might be saved by Jesus before it is too, too late.