This is OK though? What a phack stick!
Posted on 03/24/2010 1:19:00 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Municipal officials approved the Jewish housing project in one of Jerusalem's most volatile Palestinian suburbs just hours before Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met Mr Obama for emergency talks.
US officials had hoped that a meeting between the two leaders could defuse tensions triggered when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo settlement during a visit earlier this month by Joe Biden, the US vice-president.
But in the days leading up to the meeting, Mr Netanyahu defiantly rejected US demands to reverse the expansion of Ramat Shlomo and halt all building in east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day war.
That Israel then approved a new building project, the suspension of which the United States had demanded as long ago as last July, can only have infuriated Mr Obama.
The meeting at the White House was the iciest between an American president and an Israeli premier in recent years. Mr Netanyahu was treated to a series of small but calculated diplomatic slights that left him in no doubt of the White House's displeasure.
There were no photographs before or after the meeting, no questions from reporters and no press briefing or "readout" afterwards.
The “honest and straightforward discussion” ended with areas of “disagreement”, according to Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, who added that US officials were seeking “clarification” of Israel’s plan for a further expansion of Jewish housing..
But an Israeli government spokesman sought to put a brave face on the encounter, saying: “the atmosphere was good”.
But the evidence suggested it was anything but. The meeting itself was in two parts: an initial 89-minute session followed by a further 35 minutes at Mr Netanyahu's request, after he had consulted his officials.
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At least someone is doing it. Good for them.
Lucky them.
GO BIBI!!!!
Keep on spittin’!
Israel ‘spits in Obama’s eye’
where is the video?
Now this is the Israel of old...
:)
This is OK though? What a phack stick!
1) “Settlements” are not in Jerusalem; building in Jerusalem is an expansion of a city which has a growing population.
2) The land on which the latest building is anticipated (on the site of the old Sheperd Hotel) was BOUGHT 20 years ago.
3) Why do we have to go overseas to British media to find out most of our information about this?
If someone expects you to put your people in danger and watch your country be destroyed, you might spit in their eye too.
Do I need to answer that?
Two things here. First the US has no standing to demand Isreal do anything. Secondly the concept of defiantly rejecting US demands is something we should all consider when it comes to this health care crap.
0bama daydreaming: “Man, I wish I had some of them six pointed stars to sew on people’s sleeves”
Israel should now realize that the “messiah” is mid wifing Iran’s nuclear bomb, not trying to stop it.
Don’t mess with Big Ben!
What a great sight picture-—Bibi Spits in Osama’s eye.
Man, I wish I had some of them six pointed stars to sew on people’s sleeves
With an R in the middle LOL!.........I don’t think that’s too far out to believe.
So then why is he in D.C. visiting Obama now? Did he miss the first time?
LOL..sure are alot of reporters stuck on spit these days.
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