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The Obama-Netanyahu Feud
New York Sun ^ | October 29, 2014

Posted on 10/29/2014 6:07:16 PM PDT by SJackson

“Chickensh--t” is the word an aide at the State Department is using to describe Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic. Another Obama administration official calls the Israeli premier a “coward.” The officials lacked the courage to speak on the record, but if Mr. Goldberg reported they said it, you can take it to the bank. Another adjective the Atlantic legman says he’s heard used about Mr. Netanyahu is “aspergery,” meaning having difficulties with social intercourse. This about a leader who, in Mr. Netanyahu, has kept together a long-term coalition government in the planet’s liveliest parliamentary democracy. At least Secretary of State Kerry hasn’t likened Mr. Netanyahu to Genghis Khan.

The fault for “this breakdown in relations” lies, Mr. Goldberg reckons, with Mr. Netanyahu, who, the reporter’s sources tell him, has “written off” the Obama administration and “plans to speak directly to Congress and the American people should an Iran nuclear deal be reached.” It seems that Mr. Netanyahu intends to fight on what the Sun has called the most dangerous ground in the Middle East, namely the no-man’s-land between the White House and the Congress. Mr. Netanyahu has entered this minefield before, addressing Joint Meetings of Congress in 1996 after the Republican Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House and in 2011 after John Boehner did the same.

We’re tempted chalk this up as yet more evidence that the Republicans are the more logical partner for Israel. This goes back as far as 1972, when Yitzhak Rabin was Israel’s ambassador in Washington and conceived that President Nixon was a more realistic global thinker than the Democrats. We’re not convinced, though, that the issue is or ought to be partisan.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chickenbleep; israel; jeffreygoldberg; kenyanbornmuzzie; obamaantiisrael; theatlantic
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1 posted on 10/29/2014 6:07:16 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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2 posted on 10/29/2014 6:09:52 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: SJackson

Wonder what Netanyahu calls Osamabama...
I’ll bet “chickenshit” would be the nicest term!


3 posted on 10/29/2014 6:10:19 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: SJackson

“... I will stand with Islam”

Nothing more needs to be said.


4 posted on 10/29/2014 6:13:02 PM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: SJackson

The idea that snarky, metrosexual, punk-ass, pajama-boys in this Administration call a former commando of Sayaret Matkal a “chickenshit” just frosts me.


5 posted on 10/29/2014 6:17:27 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: SJackson

No, Goldberg, the fault lies with Obama.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 6:18:32 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SJackson
Which on here is smokin' chicken$#!+ ?


7 posted on 10/29/2014 6:18:52 PM PDT by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: SJackson

And the Klown says ISIS is JV. God, what morons. Worse, the morons that actually did vote for him. You can’t blame the dead voters or fictitious ones but at least SOME were living.


8 posted on 10/29/2014 6:22:46 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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FReepers! Let's go!
Every donation counts!



9 posted on 10/29/2014 6:30:41 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Lysandru

Me too. The Clintons had a bad relationship with Netanyahu when they were in office, and the Dems can’t fool him. I dread when PM Netanyahu leaves office. That new President of Israel Ravenil? wants Palestinians to have Israeli citizenship??NUTS.


10 posted on 10/29/2014 6:38:18 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: SJackson

obama is way more asbergery than Bibi


11 posted on 10/29/2014 6:45:14 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SJackson

It should not be partisan, but it is, because being anti-Judeo-Christian is more important tothe liberals than knowing who your friends are.


12 posted on 10/29/2014 6:52:40 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Lysandru
The idea that snarky, metrosexual, punk-ass, pajama-boys in this Administration call a former commando of Sayaret Matkal a “chickenshit” just frosts me.

Did you notice NOT ONE of the pajama-boys had the courage to admit they made the comment?

13 posted on 10/29/2014 6:54:14 PM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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To: yldstrk

Had you ever heard that term before? I’m amazed there’s a pejorative term for people with Aspergers or Autism. Count on the left.


14 posted on 10/29/2014 6:57:26 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Kackikat

Since his support is building, this helps, he’ll probably call for elections next year, which potentially means another 4 years.


15 posted on 10/29/2014 6:58:45 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: SJackson

nope I hadn’t, but no one could be more socially awkward than my mil


16 posted on 10/29/2014 7:10:00 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
obama is way more asbergery than Bibi

You meant a$$ buggery, right?

17 posted on 10/29/2014 7:15:59 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: SJackson

FUBO


18 posted on 10/29/2014 7:46:20 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: SJackson

I will stand with the ISRAELIS should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Obama can go straight ‘back’ to Hell.


19 posted on 10/29/2014 7:56:48 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: SJackson

The Obamites are coming unglued.

They expected to be much further in carrying out their pro-muslim, anti-Jew agenda by now.

It is going to get downright nasty and dangerous the day after the election.

And not just for the Israelis.


20 posted on 10/29/2014 8:21:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Legacy of 'Obama The Divider' - Racial Revenge)
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