Posted on 03/02/2015 10:36:31 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will escalate his campaign against U.S. President Barack Obama's Iran diplomacy on Tuesday in a speech to Congress whose staging has put unprecedented stress on the two leaders' already strained ties.
Although cold-shouldered by the administration, Netanyahu has offered an olive branch, saying he meant no disrespect to Obama by accepting an invitation to address U.S. lawmakers that was orchestrated by the president's rival Republicans.
As many as one-fifth of Democratic members plan to sit out the speech to protest what they see as a politicization of Israeli security, an issue on which Congress usually unites.
The White House is wary of Netanyahu using the forum to lay bare the closed-door negotiations designed to curb Iran's nuclear drive.
Obama on Monday appeared to wave off any prospect the bedrock U.S. alliance with Israel might be ruined by the rancor.
"I don’t think it's permanently destructive," Obama told Reuters in an interview.
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Anyone who doesn’t kneel at his feet and suck Obama’s **** “strains ties” with His Imperial Majesty.
headline is 180 degrees wrong
it is Obama that has ‘strained’ relations with Jerusalem
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