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US will not forget Ya'alon's insult
Alon Pinkas
Published: 23.03.14, 13:12
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1. Alon Pinkas ..This Govt no more represents the U.S.
Rod ,   Fargo N.Dakota   (03.23.14)
Then Viktor Yanukovych represented the Ukrainian people.The Obama Administration has lost credibility with most U.S. Citizens.You're mistaking an administration with the American People.
2. The revanchist America... oh well... refreshing...
Miron ,   USA   (03.23.14)
3. Obama believes it’s important to be open and honest
Steve Klein   (03.23.14)
Another columnist wrote late last week: "US President Barack Obama, in his keynote speech to Israel at the Jerusalem International Convention Center during his visit last year at this time, segued from the unabashedly positive part of his speech into the more critical by saying that not everyone in the hall was going to agree with what he had to say about peace. “That’s part of the discourse between our two countries. I recognize that,” Obama said. “But I also believe it’s important to be open and honest, especially with your friends. I also believe that.” Obama believes Israel should take tremendous mortal and existential risks for peace by placing their faith and trust in his good intentions on Iran, the Palestinians, etc., because Obama claims to "have Israel's back." That is precisely what Defense Minister Ya'alon is doing. It is his job. Ya'alon is being open and honest with the American people and their elected president just as Obama suggested friends be with one another.
4. Americans appreciate criticism of the disastrous Obama regim
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Only the White House and Obama supporters want to punish those who speak up against Obama.
5. You want the truth or not
jerold   (03.23.14)
yaalon should be praised by the US not condemned by the diletttante empty windbag that is kerry with zero accomplishments. it was obama who said in an interview naiively that america would not use force in ukraine. it was obama that figured no more than one theatre land war so cut the miilitary badly. Obama had never and intention to bomb iran. it was pinkas's mentors fearful and without miiiltary knowhow running to obama assuring israelis that he would take care of it. Forget about it. he is in bed with moslems and arabs-that is who he is and he has said so. That kerry calls netanyahu to complain on yaalon, which he woud never do with putin, lavrov, hague, baird but because of 3 billion, he feels we should bow down and not say the truth. Sissi told the truth and good for him. and while the US could do much better than israel alone, it need the huge aircraft carrier that is israel, otherwise russian will rolll right over and they would massacre american troops if they set foot in sevastopol. So it is a 2 way s treet. On a personal level, pinkas has always come off as an arrogant, untidy, unlkempt beilinst who cannot now find employment with israeli governemtn just like diskin. I wonder if diskiin and pinkas are being paid to divide israeli opinion and isolate yaalon. the only one to defend yaalon has been bennett with the others and bibi sitting around like gutless cowards.
6. Weakling
yehoshua bader ,   safed, israel   (03.23.14)
B"H Shut up you weakling. You sound the the Jews in Berlin 1930. Hussein Obama is a weak President who sells Israel to the highest bidder, the one who can do the most damage. Leave my land!
7. Have you no shame Pinkas? Are we that dumb in your eyes?
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.23.14)
8. What a load of @#$##
Sergio ,   Tel Aviv   (03.23.14)
US has betrayed every single ally it used to have in the region. Their foreign policy is bad for the region not just Israel. Obama is living in a parallel universe where the world is pink and he strongly believes in whatever s$%t he does. This administration managed to get both sides of the conflict on high trees with their demands. There will be no peace and he world has to get over with this. They have to start working on other issues and leave the ME to boil on it's own. They can't bring democracy and freedom to people who don't have education of freedom. Stop messing with ME and look elsewhere.
9. Tell it to the US Congress that agrees with Yallon
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & NYC   (03.23.14)
When 395 of the 435 member of the House of Representatives and 83 of 100 Senators calling for a harder lone on Iran, how can anyone be surprised by Ya'alon's comment? I mean it is not as if the US has recently lived up to commitments: To bomb Syria if they use chemical weapons. To support Murbarak or the Egyptian people. To support Japan against China's aggression. To prevent Russia from breaking up the Ukraine. To stand with Saudi Arabia against Iran.
10. US under the wimp Obama has more insults to remember ...
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (03.23.14)
...from other leaders and nations beside Ya'alon's.
11. They'll just be proving his point
Shmilfke ,   Dublin   (03.23.14)
If the US punishes Israel for some stupid off-the-cuff but honest comment, they'll just be proving his point - that is, the US has become capable only of punishing its allies but doing nothing to its enemies.
12. Alon Pinkas dislikes it said truthfully
Battikh ,   Jenin   (03.23.14)
13. It is the author who does not understand
Joe Fraser ,   Canada   (03.23.14)
The $3billion goes right back to US defense contractors, so they are helping them as much as Israel. In the UN, the US supports Israel because its people overwhelmingly support Israel (in every poll you see) against the anti-Israel Muslim bloc. What the author does not mention is that Israel is the US' largest aircraft carrier, right in the heart of the Middle East, a strategic position they will not give up. Stop believing the leftist hype, because, that's all it is.
14. Someone needs ....
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.23.14)
... to muzzle Pinkas. He can bend over and present all he wants to the joke that is the United States Secretary of State, but that doesn't mean that Israel has to go along. Ya'alon spoke the truth, and nothing but the truth. And if Kerry took offense, he should get back into the ketchup business and out of government service.
15. And I can't forget all insults + threats fm U.S. - Kerry /OB
barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (03.23.14)
16. like America was going to do something
Robert ,   lost in farmington   (03.23.14)
Like America was really going to stop Iran , pl...........ease . America got there excuse for not doing nothing about Iran now , but again like they was doing something before , or was going to do something. US will not forget Ya'alon's insult Op-ed: Defense Minister's comments will greatly influence American willingness to listen to Israel on crucial issues like Iran. The question is ? did America ever listen to Israel on iran. the answer is no , so there is no big loss here.
17. peretz and sheinitz
alexi   (03.23.14)
I want to remind readers of what winograd said of peretz ie out of his depth, a security flop in regard to the hezbollah war where 150 idf were killed for no good reasons. as for shteinitz, he typifies some of likud who are weaklings in conservative garb, tough tough but are like weaklings and that includes bibi, shteinitz, shalom and so on. Even lapid was able to muscle shteinitz out of a meeting. So it doesn't surprise me that they would criiticize yaalon. these 2 are weaklings so they detest a strong confident leaders and that is yaalon.
18. Obama is intent on destroying Gen. Ya'alon
CJK   (03.23.14)
ya'alon said what needed to be said. the obama regime has been undermining israel's national security from day one of obama's presidency. obama wants to impose his own vision on solving the arab-israeli conflict, regardless of the coonsequences to israel's national security. obama has made a deal with iran which allows this holocaust denying genocidal terror state to retain its nuclear weapons program. obama has on numerous occasions humiliated the jewish state and her leaders. while obama gave a speech at an islamic university in cairo, he boycotted the democratically elected knesset, israel's parliament. obama has on numerous occasions embarrassed and humiliated pm netanyahu. the latest humiliation was his interview with jeffrey goldberg of bloomberg news in which he basically accused netanyahu of being the sole impediment to peace. his secretary of state, john kerry, has threatened israel with intifadas and boycotts should israel refuse to accept his so-called framework. obama treats the jewish state and her leaders as vassals. obama has more respect for islamic terrorists than he has for israel's leadership. now that ya'alon has called a spade a spade, the obama regime has become totally hysterical and has been sending out its representatives and allies trying to get gen. ya'alon fired. the naked interference by obama in israel's internal affairs is unprecedented in israel-american relations. obama has already lost egypt, and the slaughter in syria is unrelenting. obama does not realise that his power over israel is not as strong as he thinks it is.
19. really Alon
Avi ,   USA   (03.23.14)
Fire the DM for saving relations with a lying Prez who has lied and misled his own people and will lead israel to disaster. The only prayer we have is to wait Obama out .
20. Walt Disney
Michael ,   Haifa   (03.23.14)
Walt Disney must have had Ya'alon in mind when he invented Popeye's nemesis, Bluto....big, strong, "brave", arrogant and stupid
21. I back Yaalon 100%.
Reuven   (03.23.14)
Moshe: Please take it one step further by reinstating and promoting Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner. Eisner is a great hero, whose only "crime" was standing up to a pro-terrorist, leftist anti-Semite!
22. Obama wasn't listening to Israel before
Scott ,   Ramat Gan   (03.23.14)
Leftists like Pinkas have to get it through their thick skulls that Obama is not a friend of Israel. He tells Israel that friends can speak openly & criticize, but he does not want to hear any criticism from Israel. Obama's foreign policy has been an unmitigated disaster. Not even his supporters in Congress can deny this. He lit a fuse under simmering Mideast anger with his Cairo Univ. speech & has done nothing to stem the violence that erupted from it. Putin knows he can do whatever he wants & Iran is playing him for a fool. It's high time someone told the emperor he's not wearing any clothes.
23. @ 3 : Steve Klein
Abdel Karim Salim ,   Jerusalem   (03.23.14)
Quite confused you are... You may disagree but you may not bark at your own masters ... As much as Israel may be serving US interests America remains the Superpower that is capable of standing on its own feet while Israel without US support is like a fish without water...
24. The isolation of Israel will destroy it. It's an emergency!!
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.23.14)
25. Community college Journalism
Chanan ,   FL, USA   (03.23.14)
At its best. Keep up the good work Alon. I especially like the repetition of how Yalon attacked American dignitaries. He only restated the facts on the ground how America made separate promises to both parties. America will take this lying down because there are far more pressing issues in the international arena and it can't afford to lose its only stable partner in the ME. Sorry bub but there is no viable replacement.
26. #23, Fukestinians will never be able to stand their own feet
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.23.14)
Without Western and some Arab League financial support they are toast. Even with such support there is no guarantee that if they become independent greedy neighboring Arab countries wouldn't want to tear it to pieces like they did in the 1948 invasions.
27. What a Smuck!
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28. Agree with Mr. Pinkas
R ,   Israel   (03.23.14)
It's not enough to be "right", and "right" is a matter of opinion. A good statesman doesn't insult friends. Whether or not Mr. Ya'alon likes the current administration, it seems plain stupid to insult people. I'd like to believe that the people responsible for steering this country have a bit of self-control. (I know... but I can dream...)
29. What Ya' alons said is right
Daniel ,   Amsterdam NL   (03.23.14)
America i weak and is matter of fact that Obama and his government are trying to sell out Israel.
30. Obama already forgot about it, he wants to release Pollard
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.23.14)
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