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| Barack Obama does not hate Israel, says Binyamin Netanyahu |
| 2010-03-19 |
| The family back-and-forth came as King Abdullah of Jordan added to pressure on Israel over its settlements policy, demanding the international community take firm action over what he called the "red line" of Jerusalem. Hagai Ben-Artzi, the brother of the Israeli premier's wife, said on Israeli Army Radio that the US president dislikes Netanyahu and the Israeli people because he had spent years in the church of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who he said is "antisemitic, anti-Israeli, and anti-Jewish." Obama once declared the fiery liberal Chicago preacher was his spiritual mentor but disavowed him during the campaign. "As a politician running for [the] presidency he had to hide it," Ben-Artzi said, "but it comes out every time and I think we just have to say it plainly: there is an antisemitic president in America." Ben-Artzi then reiterated that "Jerusalem is the Israeli people's capital and the capital of the state of Israel, and it is whole and united." "Once the Americans tried to intervene in anything related to Jerusalem we told them one simple word: 'No'," he said. Netanyahu distanced himself from the remarks, with a spokesman saying it was not the first time the two had disagreed. "I have a deep appreciation for President Obama's commitment to Israel's security, which he has expressed many times," Netanyahu said. In an interview, Obama said the construction plans were not helpful for the Middle East peace process but downplayed suggestion of a rift. "Israel's one of our closest allies, and we and the Israeli people have a special bond that's not going to go away," he said on Fox News. "But friends are going to disagree sometimes." Meanwhile, Abdullah, a close ally of the US and Britain, demanded "firm, swift, direct and effective action to stop Israel's provocative measures in Jerusalem that seek to change its identity and threaten holy sites". "Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel's attempts to get rid of Jerusalem's Arab residents, Muslims or Christians," the king told Lady Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, according to a palace statement. Ashton is visiting Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today before flying to Moscow to join a meeting of the Middle East Quartet: Hillary Clinton for the US, the UN's Ban Ki-Moon, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and Tony Blair, the Quartet's special representative. |
| Posted by:tipper |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-19 15:46 |
| #15 There's enough self-destructiveness going around, that if those of us who have been trying to fight it _stopped_, it would be enough to destroy the United States several times over, and Israel a hundred times over. And perhaps the biggest batch of self-destructiveness I've seen yet is the whole "I don't care that the rest of the world gets wrecked, it's not going to affect me in my little enclave" stuff I'm seeing now. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 15:43 |
| #14 I give up Besoeker. You've caught us dead to rights. It's the the Elders of Zion who shipped American industry to China---replacing it with the trade in derivatives & the housing bubble. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 15:34 |
| #13 Thing, you people should learn to take responsibility for your own actions. g(r)om "You people"...? Oh fir phuechs sake g(r)om. I think I'm going to call Antwerp tomorrow morning and cancel my most recent Afri blood diamond order over that one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-19 15:16 |
| #12 In Israel, Rahm wouldn't get a job as a supermarket delivery boy. Thing, you people should learn to take responsibility for your own actions. Obama isn't the disease he's a symptom. The disease is self-indulgence that all of you went along with---until it started hurting. Blaming the Jews---the most productive part of your society, shows that you're not even in a right direction for the cure. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 15:09 |
| #11 Will you outlive Prime Minister Rahm Emmanuel too? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 14:48 |
| #10 Hey Thing, we will outlive Obama---you may not. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 11:29 |
| #9 In case of USA it's more usual to give money to people who hate you. However, give MM some time and Israel will qualify. Well, those of us who aren't anti-semites are kinda damned if we do and damned if we don't. If we violently overthrew the antisemites within a couple weeks a pretty large chunk of them would be in apartment blocks across the street from you with brand-new Israeli citizenship telling you what bloody nazis we are. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 09:46 |
| #8 but Jimmy Carter sez Obama's Admin is... too pro-Israel YJCMTSU |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-19 08:19 |
| #7 He loves Israel......he loves it so much he can't wait to give it to his Muzzie buddies. |
| Posted by: Alanc 2010-03-19 08:03 |
| #6 Do you normally give $2 billion a year to someone you hate? In case of USA it's more usual to give money to people who hate you. However, give MM some time and Israel will qualify. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 04:04 |
| #5 Do you normally give $2 billion a year to someone you hate? |
| Posted by: Cheath Darling of the Heathen Rus7419 2010-03-19 03:19 |
| #4 Because hate is an adult emotion? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 03:11 |
| #3 Barak Hussain Madoff does not "hate" Israel. He is too busy destroying America, but if Israel needed help, he was unavailable for that. Call me Israel. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-03-19 02:27 |
| #2 Bibi is just keeping his friends close and his 'enemy' even closer. Hang in there Israel...1038 days to go until the bastard is history. |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-19 01:35 |
| #1 Let me guess, Bibi, he will love it and squeeze it and call it George? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-19 01:10 |