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VIDEO: Netanyahu Turns Down Meeting With Senate Democrats – READ BIBI’s LETTER!
Viral Buzz ^ | 2/24/15 | Bill Chandler

Posted on 02/25/2015 9:00:38 AM PST by Impala64ssa

On Monday Senators. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., invited Netanyahu to meet in a closed-door session with Democrats during his visit. Netanyahu declined the invitation on Tuesday and expressed regret about the politically fraught tone of his trip.

“I regret that the invitation to address the special joint session of Congress has been perceived by some to be political or partisan,” Netanyahu wrote. “I can assure you that my sole intention in accepting it was to voice Israel’s grave concerns about a potential nuclear agreement with Iran that could threaten the survival of my country.”

Netanyahu said to meet with Democrats “at this time could compound the misperception of partisanship regarding my upcoming visit.”

More than a half dozen House and Senate Democrats have said they will skip the speech, calling it an affront to President Barack Obama and the administration as they engage in high-level negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. As expected Vice President Joe Biden will be traveling and has no plans to attend the speech.

Obama has no plans to meet with Netanyahu, with the administration saying such a session would break with past practices of engaging with world leaders close to elections. Israel’s elections are set for March 17.

Durbin said in a statement that he regretted that Netanyahu could not meet with the Democrats.

“We offered the Prime Minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker (John) Boehner with a private meeting with Democrats who are committed to keeping the bipartisan support of Israel strong,” Durbin said. “His refusal to meet is disappointing to those of us who have stood by Israel for decades.”

Here’s Netanyahu’s full letter declining invitation to meet with Democratic senators:


TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bibi; california; democrats; diannefeinstein; dickdurbin; durbin; illinois; israel; lindseygraham; netanyahu; netanyahucongress; netanyahuletter; waronterror
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To: originalbuckeye
Compare Bibi’s Class Act with the petulance of our pResident. Americans should be embarrassed.

Amen! Sane Americans are embarrassed.

21 posted on 02/25/2015 9:19:13 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

I notice Bibi is also not meeting with the Republicans privately.


22 posted on 02/25/2015 9:22:42 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Gonna be awfully hard for the spin-doctors to turn that letter into anything controversial.

Oh, yeah, they’ll do it - but they’ll have to lie up a storm doing it - and people are listening for that now -

And speaking of “protocol” - Asking BiBi to meet separately with them smacks protocol in the face.

I thought they were all about ‘protocol”?


23 posted on 02/25/2015 9:23:30 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: Reno89519

Say what??????????


24 posted on 02/25/2015 9:25:36 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits ye shall know them.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Translation: Screw You. Besides it would be a waste of my time!
Later dudes!


25 posted on 02/25/2015 9:26:03 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Looks to me like sides are being drawn up.


26 posted on 02/25/2015 9:28:38 AM PST by Mean Daddy
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To: Reno89519
Time to end this fiasco and cancel the visit and invitation.

I don't see it as a fiasco.

The only fiasco I see is your post on this thread.

27 posted on 02/25/2015 9:31:18 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Louis Foxwell

Exactly, and rightfully so.

Our foreign policy since 0bama has been in the WH has been atrocious to non existent, it’s really sad.


28 posted on 02/25/2015 9:31:41 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Reno89519

Where is the “trash America aspect” you refer to? Except from the White House?
Have you been reading something the rest of us haven’t?

Or smoking something...?


29 posted on 02/25/2015 9:47:09 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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To: Impala64ssa

“His refusal to meet is disappointing to those of us who have stood by Israel for decades.”

Who cares what they’ve “done for decades,” it’s what they’re doing today that matters.


30 posted on 02/25/2015 9:59:02 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: SMARTY

Excellent! You really are a fart smeller...oops...Smart Feller.


31 posted on 02/25/2015 10:05:35 AM PST by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: jsanders2001; SMARTY
 
 
Of course - Netanyahu deals with some of the worst duplicitous sneaks and schemers in the world. Those senators are rank amateurs compared to what he has to face on a daily basis where he lives & works.
 
 

32 posted on 02/25/2015 10:12:01 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Why should he meet with them in a closed-door session? He’s addressing all of Congress. Let them attend.


33 posted on 02/25/2015 10:25:56 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: originalbuckeye
Americans are embarrassed. Obama worshipers are not embarrassed. There is a Difference between an Obama worshiper/voter and an American.
34 posted on 02/25/2015 10:33:28 AM PST by sport
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To: SMARTY

exactly. Prime Minister Netanyahu operates above genius-level thinking in everything he does; he is an M.I.T. graduate. He is also retired Israeli military, and he is also as shrewd and as cunning as a hawk when it comes to political matters.
There is no way, shape or form that the traitor-in-chief here in the United States can hold a match to that. Bibi just blows it out. Literally.


35 posted on 02/25/2015 10:38:01 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Dianne Feinstein: Democrat in all but name Ron Rand Paul: Hillary: by contrast, a Democrat who's not running for POTUS: The Biggest Turd in the Punchbowl:
36 posted on 02/25/2015 11:22:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Impala64ssa

I wish we had one person as ethical, smart, caring and protective toward the United States as Netanyahu is with Israel...

Most of the GOP would have fallen for the liberal trap... Maybe the GOP’s lazy or stupid ... maybe corrupt. Anyhow nice to see someone who loves their country.

Wish we had a leader who cared about our country.

Have democrats gone on CNN yet to express their ‘great concern’ for Israel’... while stabbing Israel in the back? Or is that next weeks lie?


37 posted on 02/25/2015 12:40:32 PM PST by GOPJ (How dare we act superior to beheaders, child rapists and those who burn men alive?)
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To: Batman11

Oh good .. I’ll bring the popcorn.


38 posted on 02/25/2015 6:04:56 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: SunkenCiv

Bookmark


39 posted on 02/25/2015 6:17:10 PM PST by DrewsMum
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To: Impala64ssa

they just can’t let it go...... the reason Bibi is not meeting with Obama is because there was no point.


40 posted on 02/25/2015 6:25:29 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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