Obama-Netanyahu Fallout is ‘Unprecedented’ in History
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Historian reveals the key clashes between US presidents and Israeli prime ministers, and why none have been as bad as the current one.
The current diplomatic crisis between Israel and US President Barack Obama’s administration is the most vicious and public yet among only a handful of crises that have marred the close, long-running relationship, says an expert on relations between the two nations.
Obama’s frosty relationship with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hit new lows this month, with the White House criticizing remarks Netanyahu made on election day, in which he said a Palestinian state would not be founded if he was elected - which he quickly backtracked on, and warned foreign funded NGOs were busing Arab Israelis to vote en masse - which he apologized for.
The White House threatened in response to the issue of a Palestinian state that it may pull support for Israel at the UN, allowing such a state to be recognized. It likewise rejected Netanyahu’s apology on the Arab voter issue; Netanyahu’s warning noted that groups like V15 were busing in the voters to oust him, and the Senate has in fact launched a probe into Obama’s alleged funding of the V15 campaign.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained, after the election, that he did not abandon Bar-Ilan and/or the TWO-STATE SOLUTION!!
Obama is making up several issues ... which are really non-issues ... and are for only making political hay! Obama wanted to get rid of Ambassador Dermer, because of the arrangements made through him (with the Speaker of the House) to have Netanyahu give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress. That really fired up the political opposition to the Iran agreement that Obama is trying to push through, and therefore Obama was looking for some payback ... namely get rid of Dermer!
And in regards to the other issue, and Obama accusing Netanyahu of being against a TWO-STATE SOLUTION ... thats just an outright lie from Obama.
Obama is making this out to be REAL BIG ISSUE and is throwing a Temper Tantrum over it, even though he knows its TOTALLY FALSE and its a LIE that hes telling the American public. Obama is hoping the FOOLS in America will believe him and not Netanyahu, when Netanyahu says he STILL supports a Two-State Solution, per Bar-Ilan.
The reason why Obama is making this out to be a big issue, is that he wants to use it to abandon Israel in the United Nations (by refusing to block UN Security Council Resolutions against Israel) and in the future by implementing sanctions against Israel.
As Obama knows very well, and as Netanyahu has made clear repeatedly after the election ... Netanyahu has not abandoned his Bar-Ilan policy speech regarding his support for the Two-State Solution.
Obama is trying to take a misunderstood campaign blurb and turn into a major policy reversal. Its no such thing and Obama knows it!
This is what I said regarding what the Liberal press and Obama are doing ...
This a FALSE statement from the press and from Obama. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has REPEATEDLY sought to correct the mistaken impression that he does not support a TWO-STATE SOLUTION.
He does support it and he says that he has maintained that same support ... going back to his Bar-Ilan speech, when Obama first got into office. He says his position in support of the Two-State Solution has not changed since then.
What it is ... is that the liberal press and Obama want to hammer on Netanyahu no matter what ... and theyve picked up on a LIE that Netanyahu does not support the Two-State Solution.
Heres Netanyahus support for a Two-State Solution from what he has been referring to in the last several days to COUNTER THIS LIE!
Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University [Relates to Netanyahus Re-election]
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