Posted on 01/23/2013 11:05:44 AM PST by Nachum
Dan Senor, American author of Start Up Nation and former adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, sent out an electrifying message on Israel’s election day, January 22, claiming that two U.S. officials in Israel quietly conceded that President Obama’s statements to Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg were an intentional effort to hurt Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in the election.
If what Senor claims is true, and President Obama was attempting to influence the Israeli election, it is possible that it could become the subject of a congressional investigation.
The statements at issue were revealed in an article Goldberg wrote for Bloomberg on January 14. That article, the headline of which was, “Obama: Israel Doesn’t Know What its Best Interests Are,” was filled with insider dish from Goldberg, and it was ugly.
Among the things that Goldberg claimed Obama has said about Netanyahu were that his policies were “self-defeating,” that “Israel doesn’t know what its own interests are,” and that “Netanyahu is moving his country down the path toward near-total isolation.” Goldberg wrote that Obama made these comments frequently, and to several people.
The particular impetus for Obama’s dissing of the Israeli Prime Minister, according to Goldberg, was the decision to go ahead with building Jewish homes in Mevaseret Adumim (often referred to by the impersonal designation “E1.”) The decision to go forward with building in this area came on the heels of the United Nations vote upgrading the status of the Palestinian Authority to non-member observer state in November of last year.
Goldberg, a centrist liberal Jewish writer who is considered to have credible access to the White House, opined in his article that
On matters related to the Palestinians, the president seems to view the prime minister as a political coward, an essentially unchallenged leader who nevertheless
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Um.. no. They won't. But, we can add this info to the file on Obama voter fraud. He's a natural.
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When kosher pigs fly.
“If what Senor claims is true, and President Obama was attempting to influence the Israeli election, it is possible that it could become the subject of a congressional investigation. “
No, it’s not possible. The whole of congress doesn’t have 2 ballls among all of them. It would, after all, be racist to investigate a president that had won an election in a landslide victory./s
We knew it when he said it. This is no surprise. It isn’t even news. For obama this is simply business as usual.
You are right. There isn't a snow balls chance in hades that there will be any investigation of any sort.
“...it is possible that it could become the subject of a congressional investigation.”
Bullcrap! And even if it occurred, the outcome would already be decided, just like Hillary’s testimony today. What a tragedy. We are on a major downward spiral, and nothing will (not “can”) stop it.
Obama views Netanyahu as a political coward? Now that’s rich.
What in the hell is a 'centrist liberal'?!?
NO IT WILL NOT. The US is over. All the leftists get a pass. The other side has no representation that are not cowards of the 1st degree.
In the US, the “blue dog” Democrats are centrist liberals. They are often defined as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
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No, there's nothing to investigate, unless there were bribes.
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No, there's nothing to investigate, unless there were bribes.
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No, there's nothing to investigate, unless there were bribes.
Even if it's not illegal under American law for an American government official to intervene in a democratic election of a foreign government, it is at the least awkward, crude, irresponsible, and counterproductive for an American president to blatantly attempt to affect the outcome of an election in a purportedly allied nation.
Contrast this with Netanyahu's carefully worded statements of neutrality with respect to the American election last year.
BiBi has SO much “Class’.
Unlike SOME pResidents i could mention.
I would like to know, specifically, what you mean by this comment. I'm not sure at all what it is that you are trying to convey.
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