Posted on 05/29/2009 4:49:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Last night, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told journalists that the Obama administration "wants to see a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a confidante. Referring to Clinton's call for a settlement freeze, Netanyahu groused, "What the hell do they want from me?" according to his associate, who added, "I gathered that he heard some bad vibes in his meetings with [U.S.] congressional delegations this week."
In the 10 days since Netanyahu and President Barack Obama held a meeting at the White House, the Obama administration has made clear in public and private meetings with Israeli officials that it intends to hold a firm line on Obama's call to stop Israeli settlements. According to many observers in Washington and Israel, the Israeli prime minister, looking for loopholes and hidden agreements that have often existed in the past with Washington, has been flummoxed by an unusually united line that has come not just from Obama White House and the secretary of state, but also from pro-Israel congressmen and women who have come through Israel for meetings with him over Memorial Day recess. To Netanyahu's dismay, Obama doesn't appear to have a hidden policy. It is what he said it was.
"This is a sea change for Netanyahu," a former senior Clinton administration official who worked on Middle East issues said. The official said that the basis of the Obama White House's resolve is the conviction that it is in the United States' as well as Israel's interest to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "We have significant, existential threats that Israel faces from Iran and that the U.S. faces from this region.
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I would hope Bibi would hold firm here. It is Israel that could be wiped out in a second.
They want you to die, Prime Minister.
Obama is a hidden policy. No birth certificate.
They want him to shut up and get in the chamber...
Netanyahu: “What the hell do they want from me?”
Like all lib scumbags, they want your death and destruction, sir. Resist them. Spit in their faces and defend your great nation. God bless Israel. America’s (real) Christians stand with you and your people.
I am praying for Bibi tonight.
What do they want from you? The same thing they want from me: to bare our throats to our enemies so they can slit them - me figuratively, and you literally.
Someone tell that stupid, ignorant, disgusting, criminal, liberal dilettante, that the conflict WILL NEVER END, as long as there is so much as a single Jewish heart still beating on the face of the earth. Has nothing to do with settlements. But then libs already know that and are actually eager to participate in a second holocaust.
Code for running up the white flag and bowing to our new mid east ally, iran.
Hang in there, Bibi: You’re the bigger man.
Israel is so screwed.
Anti Israel wishful thinking—no doubt this is what the state dept. thinks—they are not going to get their way...
Stand up to Hussein and his cult.
My thoughts were "oh gosh, the military planners THAT STUPID?? Cant they see its a trap??"
Howbeit I've not read or seen any more info on it and since I know that 0Bama would love to have America's military shamed & defeated in that part of the world by the likes of Iran, we really need to pray hard for our troops!!!
Say “FUBO,” Bibi. It works for us.
We need more men of wisdom, stature, and resolve, like Bibi Netenyahu and Dick Cheney.
Never. “NO weapon formed against you shall prosper.”
Israel is the apple of God’s eye. He that watcheth over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
I’m a Christian, and of course, that means I back Israel.
:-)
To go to the shower
They want you to die, Prime Minister.
I trust bibi more than barry.
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