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Home Front: Politix
Netanyahu ‘spat in our face,’ White House officials say
2015-01-24
[IsraelTimes] PM 'will pay price' for spat over Congress address; Obama said to have asked him to demanded he tone down pro-sanctions rhetoric; Wash. Post: Kerry's enthusiasm for defending Israel may wane.
Kerry will have to answer to his Orthodox Jewish brother for that, the one he paraded before Jewish donors and voters, when the time comes.

Details at link, but they don't really matter. The White House and its henchmen, having decided they have an excuse to browbeat Bibi once again, have daily upped the volume since the original announcement, dripping their poison into willing ears at the Washington Post and Ha'aretz -- in all ways the New York Times of Israel -- and threatening to discontinue even their paltry previous support of Israel on the world stage. It will no doubt trouble you to know, dear Reader, that at the White House they are now calling the prime minister of Israel much worse names than the mere chickenshit of yore.

And providing some perspective on the White House excuse for not meeting with Bibi this trip:
Actually, a US president did host an Israeli PM just before elections

Denying it is snubbing Netanyahu, White House cites ‘long-standing practice’ of not inviting candidates close to polling day. So what was Clinton doing with Peres in 1996?

There is a precedent for election-proximate meetings, it involves Israel, and Netanyahu was the intended victim.
Posted by:trailing wife

#12  I tried to upload a pic of Netanyahu photoshopped in a tub with green lips with the caption, "Obama, will you meet with me now?"
Posted by: Jan   2015-01-24 21:00  

#11  he paraded before Jewish donors and voters....

Just .39 cents.

Cute! But more than that, Besoeker. When former Secretary Kerry was running for president, I happened to be invited to a reception for the brother hosted by the local Jewish Federation, or perhaps it was the local Jewish Democrats. The lady who invited me was a fellow soccer mom -- we'd chatted at the sidelines when our daughters' teams played against each other -- and she thought I'd enjoy it. We hadn't actually discussed politics at that point. ;-)

I felt very much the spy as I wandered among the conversing groups. It seems that Mr. Kerry's brother had converted to Judaism before the family geneology was done which revealed that the side of the family that wasn't Kennedys had been Jews in Czechoslovakia (I think) until fairly recently. Candidate Kerry sent his brother to corral the Jewish vote, and certainly the people I listened to were all agog at the idea of such a close connection to the future leader of the nation, completely failing to notice that we'd heard no mention of the brother until that point, which suggested he had not considered the connection beneficial.

Nor do I recall mention of that brother since, another subtle hint.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-01-24 12:47  

#10  The White House has already done worse than spit in the face of Israel: They are responsible for Israeli deaths during the Gaza War.

US cut off arms supply to Israel during Gaza War.
Posted by: frozen al   2015-01-24 11:49  

#9  It’s almost like the White House has no interest in reining in supposedly rogue elements

The rogue element is the deranged narcissist in chief. Obola's response to everything is personal because he thinks everything is about him.

As a typical progressive he is incapable of seeing the other side, compromising or even invoking the "it's just business" attitude of a gangster. Nope, it's never just business it is always personal and always about him.

Disagree in the slightest, deny him any whim and you are an enemy forever.

l'etat c'est moi!

That attitude don't leave much room for negotiation does it?
Posted by: AlanC   2015-01-24 09:21  

#8  Widescreen teleconference.... ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-24 03:40  

#7  What AP said in #2. This may be hi-octane stuff in faculty lounge politics, but on the world state it just looks childish and petulant. Chickenshit doesn't begin to describe it.

If getting Bibi into the country proves problematic, we can just smuggle him in via our southern border.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-01-24 03:30  

#6  he paraded before Jewish donors and voters....

Just .39 cents.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-24 03:12  

#5  Conspiring with enemy#1 of American People---their house of representatives?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-24 03:07  

#4  A little bit more here:

Obama White House in meltdown over Netanyahu’s proposed speech to Congress
Posted by: junkiron   2015-01-24 01:09  

#3  Hey, bub, he maybe thought you were thirsty. It's probably the best you are going to get in this lifetime.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp7492   2015-01-24 00:32  

#2  Netanyahu is 10^6 times the man that O could ever in his wildest dreams aspire to be. O knows this. The only thing O&Co can think of is how to sandbag a leader and his country because his feelings are hurt and he hates Netanyahu and Israel, and everything the country stands for.

You do not need to rub O's nose in it. He does that to himself. The best thing to do is to make good things happen and leave O behind to stew in his own juices. Even his dem friends except the *ahem* RRRReverend Sharpton are abandoning him.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-01-24 00:30  

#1  I spit in your worthless faces; Bibi can take a number and get in line.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-01-24 00:27  

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