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Behind the scenes: Obama snubs Netanyahu
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Published: 20.05.11, 09:42
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31. Bibi would be well advised
Elchanan ,   Amsterdam/Tel Aviv   (05.20.11)
not to push american patience. Frustrating as it is, Israel needs the US more than the other way around. I fear that creating a row with president Obama would be counter-productive to Israel's needs.
32. Obama's Mid-East Policy Speech
Peter Gathirimu ,   nairobi, Kenya   (05.20.11)
If the Israelis want Israel to be recognized by the Palestinians, why don;t they also recognize the Palestinian state.
33. To Adam #2
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Adam is absolutely correct. Bibi should zero out ZerObama from his upcoming talks; going directly to his congressional invitation, and spice that stew with an announcement of National Security Annexation of the Golan and Judea and Samaria. Moreover, the renunciation of all building freeze's and full speed ahead support for construction expansion of settlements in conjunction with the Defense Ministry's advice (but not consent) for the best national military benefits defensive needs of the nation. The peeople of the United States are aware of ZerObama's pro Muslim and anti-Israel posture and consistantly reject it in poll after poll. Is there any wonder the racist and corrupt individual is so often refered to by the initials POS.
34. To Israel
coolted ,   nebraska   (05.20.11)
I am an American, and I cannot apologize enough for the behavior of President Obama. You are God's people and the People of the United Stated overwhelmingly support you. Please forgive us.
35. Agree with Posts 2 &4
Brod ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Build not just 10,000 houses but a million houses. Three million or more Jews should move to and live in Judea and Samaria-Israel's historic homeland since ancient time that Israel liberated from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers in 1967. Obama is not king or god of Israel. He works for the dark forces. Judeo-Christian America does NOT support him. Obama can move to Saudi Arabia that funded his election in 2008, and whose king he reverently bowed to as if the Wahhabhist fanatic is his god. Congress should quickly impeach Obama for wallowing in the cesspool of Islamist-Jihadism which is America's number one enemy. The closeted Islamist-Jihadist should be exposed for his anti-Israel and anti-Christian moves in the region and in Africa.
36. We need new elections in Israel now!
jason white ,   afula,israel   (05.20.11)
Let us make sure bibi, barak and livni are gone from the political scene. Let them retire and stop meddling in our affairs. These three are afraid to tell off the jiadist in the Oval office.We will not commit national suicide to help him in his battle for the jihad. We need to close down the office of the president. And make sure peres is held incommunicado in an old age home
37. Either Obama is an Islime fanatic or mentally unfit; impeach
Jay Getty ,   USA   (05.20.11)
But the USA will be a third world country as soon as Israel is running its cars on batteries as is scheduled to begin soon... The USA: demands a nice long lasting war and sell lots of weapons! All terrorist should be jailed in pig skin lined jail cells and buried in pigskin: war ends, we win...and every Islime person that protest supports the terrorist and believes they are Islime!
38. Gee, I wonder why
Jeff in the U.S. ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Announcing new settlements just about every time there's a high level meeting between the U.S. and Israel. Why would would Obama feel the need to respond? I can't imagine.
39. #8
Republican   (05.20.11)
Guess you'll be grouchy for the next few 100 years, cause USA support isn't going anywhere.
40. What a shock
Giora Me'ir ,   USA   (05.20.11)
A U.S. president conducting foreign policy in the U.S. national interest, not necessarily's Israel's (although it is, but the rightist and bigots on here are too blind their desire for a Greater Israel to see it). Imagine that.
41. Peter #32
Brod ,   USA   (05.20.11)
There is no Palestine state. It is a myth created by Islamist-Jihadism and AntiSemitism. The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish Nation since ancient time. Read your Holy Bible. Judea and Samaria are Israel's historic homeland which Israel liberated from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers in 1967, just as Spain liberated its historic homeland of Spain from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers in the 15th century. Kenya too needs to liberate its historic homeland from the Islamist-Jihadist usurpers.
42. Bibi..take a tip from Menachem A'H'
froike ,   NY NY USA   (05.20.11)
Bibi...now is the time to emulate the late great Menachem Begin, A'H'. He would tell Obama "Kish mere en touchas druch Macy's fenster auf Mittag!!!"
43. Netanyahu should snub Obama
Mike caton ,   usa   (05.20.11)
Netanyahu must teach Israel Geography 101 to Obama, so that the latter may see that Ben-Gurion airport and Israel's main population centers are within 6 and 12 miles respectively from the proposed terrorist state armed by Syria and Iran; that the airport and the heart of Israel would be within WWII generation land to land rocket distance of Pal state, not to mention advanced land to land rockets supplied by Iran , Hezbollah , and Syria.This is not to mention terrorist suicide attacks emanating from the terrorist state, because that is what it will be, and Obama knows it. Netanyahu must emphatically tell Obama that Israel is not willing to commit suicide to satisfy a nutty, utopic vision , and then he should walk out telling Obama he has another, more important appointment in Washington DC.
44. American Jews
Leon ,   Grand Rapids, USA   (05.20.11)
To their everlasting shame, the vast majority of American Jews voted for Barack Husein simply because he's a liberal Democrat. They treat the Democratic party as their real religion. Like German Jews of the 30's they'll commit suicide for their ideology.
45. David #8
Brod ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Don't speak for Thomas Jefferson. You sound more like an Islamist-Jihadist or virulent AntiSemite. The fact is Judeo-Christian America supports Israel. Period.
46. #8; David, IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (05.20.11)
It helps if you know how to read, the relationship between Israel and the USA is far from one sided. From medicine to defense it is a symbiotic relationship as in mutualistic. The computer your using now, your cellphone, and a myriad of our weapons all with Israeli co-operation.
47. #5 split
solomon ,   bklyn   (05.20.11)
Our "handouts" [in quotes] to Israel are spent in the US, providing much needed jobs, helping our economy. The US also gains from cooperation with Israel on military know-how and intelligence. Our handouts [not in quotes] to the "Pals" falls into an abyss, never to return, not even to most of the people the "handouts" are meant for. Post something factual for once. Surprise us.
48. 67 LINES= 8 MILE WIDE ISRAEL=8 miles wide....is SUICIDE
Jordan ,   Is Palestine   (05.20.11)
49. @ 2, 4 ,11 and the other dilusionists
ophir ,   nyc   (05.20.11)
fyi and you probably did not consider this - the pali's are appearing before the un in september to decide on declaring a unilateral pali state the same way the un declared Israel in 1948. the security council will vote and unless the US vetoes, we may have the unthinkable turn into reality. all this is due in september. if Bibi doesnt play ball with baba obama, who knows ! therefore Israel is always trapped into diplomatic appeasement of the super powers who are allegedly backing us up as a nation. by calling for Bibi to snub baba obama you are basically expressing what we all feel but in a childish fantasy. the world doesnt work that way. thats a video game not politics...one day all this will be irrelevent anyway...you'll see
50. Thanks to the Leftist Jews of chicago
Michel ,   Jerusalem   (05.20.11)
who launched Obama's presidential carrier. . Now we pay very hard for.
51. All I can say to Brian @ Fort Myers is---
Moragh   (05.20.11)
BRAVO!
52. Elchanan @ 31
May 21 2011   (05.20.11)
Amsterdam boy, you sure have fallen asleep!
53. #44 Leon: You are absolute RIGHT!
Tom ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Just watch the lavish praise of Obamao by the ADL, Jstreet and other assorted radical Marxist American Jewish groups. Those who built Israel were the Holocaust generation, mainly E. European Jews who survived both the German and the British (Cyprus) camps.... Those fighters are (almost) all dead and the new American and many Israeli Jews are returning to the roots of Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and the Bolshevik revolution. No one can foresee the future but the odds are not good: 2000 years of servitude versus 60 something years of heroism ...it bodes ill....
54. #46 - you're right about all that "stuff"...
seadog1946 ,   InTransit, USA   (05.20.11)
but then, he also purchased all that "stuff" with his wages... and his taxes paid for all those US manufactured weapons in Israel's arsenal... but then he wasn't talking about materialism... he was alluding to foreign leaches.
55. @52
elchanan ,   Amsterdam/Tel Viv   (05.20.11)
perhaps I have, but I don't think so. I do not claim infinite wisdom, and am open to other opinions so perhaps you could elaborate upon your point? What I want to say is that in politics, it's not about being right in itself, but about convincing others that you are. Agitating the democratically elected US administration, our closest ally, is not the best way to achieve this, and will potentially harm Israel in the long run. Separation between the Israeli and American governments will only serve to make Arab theocrats smell (jewish) blood.
56. #8 Your a Moron
Israel Watchdog ,   Israel   (05.20.11)
The only reason you have he blessed life you have in the US is because it supports us. Genesis 12:3 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Thus sayith G_d not Thomas Jefferson
57. 49 ophir
(05.20.11)
LET THE UNITED NAZIS DECLARE Palestinians state.Israel will not recognize the new state,and there vcan be a major war in the middle east,and at the end of the day ISRAEL will capture more lands that historic belong to the JEWS
58. Obama snubs Netanyahu
Siegfried ,   Germany   (05.20.11)
One thing is clear. Jews do not like people of color. Israel will work to stop Obama´s reelection regardless of what it costs the country.
59. US Israel Policy
Mike ,   USA LA   (05.20.11)
#6 -- I couldn't agree more. I hope the Republicans come up with some decent candidates -- i have already reregisted to that party
60. #58 that is not only unfair, it is also untrue
colorblind ,   usa   (05.20.11)
Israel has absorbed hundreds of refugees from Darfur, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and other African countries. It was with the help of Jewish social activists that the Civil Rights Movement in the US began. Where do you get off making such a blanket statement when you must know by your own experience that it is the GERMANS that make the Jews feel the most uncomfortable for reasons the world remembers only too well.
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