Posted on 3/18/2010, 11:14:52 AM by Tigen
US President Barack Obama’s administration’s recent pressure on Israel is designed to force Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to add Kadima to his coalition instead of Israel Beiteinu or Shas, influential American columnist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in a story published on Tuesday.
In a column in The Atlantic magazine titled “What Obama is Actually Trying to Do in Israel,” Goldberg, who is close to Obama, said the president wanted to cause a rupture in Netanyahu’s coalition that would necessitate bringing in Kadima. He said he spoke about the matter with officials in the White House.
“I’ve been on the phone with many of the usual suspects (White House and otherwise), and I think it’s fair to say that Obama is not trying to destroy America’s relations with Israel; he’s trying to organize Tzipi Livni’s campaign for prime minister, or at least for her inclusion in a broad-based centrist government,” Goldberg wrote.
“I’m not actually suggesting that the White House is directly meddling in internal Israeli politics, but it’s clear to everyone – at the White House, at the State Department, at Goldblog – that no progress will be made on any front if Avigdor Lieberman’s far-right party, Israel Beiteinu, and Eli Yishai’s fundamentalist Shas Party, remain in Netanyahu’s surpassingly fragile coalition.”
Livni’s spokesman declined to comment about the column, but Kadima MK Shlomo Molla, who is her close ally, warned Obama and his advisers against interfering in Israeli politics.
“We don’t need Obama’s help,” Molla said. “But we agree that the current coalition is bad for Israel and for US-Israel relations and that if Livni was working with Obama, there would be much more trust from the White House.”
Coalition chairman Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) responded by complaining about Livni’s behavior during the current crisis with the US.
At a Kadima rally in the North on Tuesday night, Livni accused Netanyahu of “weakening Jerusalem” by “acting stupidly.”
“Had the opposition acted in a statesmanlike manner, Israel would not be under such international pressure,” Elkin said. “Israel is a democracy, and only its citizens will decide what our coalition will look like.”
Representatives of the parties in Netanyahu’s coalition took offense to Goldberg’s characterization of them as “gangsters (Israel Beiteinu), messianists (Habayit Hayehudi) and medievalists (Shas and United Torah Judaism).”
Israel Beiteinu MK David Rotem said Obama should “check how many gangsters he has in his own government.”
He called the prospect of Kadima replacing Israel Beiteinu in the coalition “wishful thinking on the part of the reporter.”
“With all his problems, Obama should be too busy to run our government,” Rotem said.
A Shas official noted Goldberg’s Jewish name and said that “even in Medieval times, Jews were their own worst enemies.”
Obama had better stay out of Israel’s sovereign politics or he might get the surprise of his life from God Himself.
The democrats have done this with Israel before. They are treating Netanyahu with the Chicago way.
3 mores years of Obama? Won’t be anything left to save in the US or Israel.
We are getting to the only thing left is the praying moment.
Just in case Bibi isn’t up to date on colloquial English, the proper response is “Take a flying *&#?+ at a rolling donut!”
So now 0bama thinks that he is King of the Jews.
The Bible makes it clear that God’s judgment of nations is separate from his judgment of individuals.
Obama is going to destroy the U. S. as a nation, IMO.
IMO, the election of Obama is intended by God to bring about his judgment of this nation for many years of turning away from God in many ways.
(But I am not for a moment saying this message is from God. I am not God and, at least in this matter, I am not a messenger of God.)
He might fancy that, but in reality he's the unrepentant thief.
I have to agree. My daily prayer is that the Lord would remember our beginnings, send us national repentance and revival, and deliver us from this evil that afflicts us.
LLS
Obama is in the midst of discovering he’s not in Chicago anymore Toto.
Hussein is also comtemplating putting the Palestinians under a US military umbrella...
Wonder what the citizens of Israel think about the Arrogant One trying to decide who represents them in their negotiations?
Bah, I don’t even need to ask.
Wait, what? Is that a joke? Is that speculation? Please God tell me that isn’t actually true.
just like Clinton sent James Carville over to take out Bibi the last time....nothing ever changes with the Dems
or in the Middle East.
Stand strong, Bibi! BO will not be in office forever...the American people will replace him with someone who respects Israel.
This would be a violation of various treaties...
That can't happen soon enough. Please, Lord... stop him.
I’m praying that, too.
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