Obama’s Arrogance Shows In Dealings With Netanyahu

Socialist Barack Hussein Obama’s recent actions against Israel are outrageous and a breach of trust.  The denunciations by Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other administration officials show either the Obama administrations lack of knowledge in foreign affairs or Obama hates Israel.

This spat started because an Israeli government minister announced that the Israeli government had authorized the construction of 1,600 apartments in East Jerusalem to be occupied by Jews.  Currently, 280,000 Jews live in East Jerusalem, and these apartments were to be added to an existing complex, built on land owned by Jews; about 250,000 Jews live on the West Bank outside of Jerusalem.

The timing of the Israeli government’s announcement was unfortunate, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for it, but it did not mark any change in the Israeli government’s policy.  That policy is and has long been to allow construction of homes for Jews in East Jerusalem.

After the announcement Biden made a strong condemnation of Israel and the housing. More disturbing though than Biden's reaction were the comments and implicit threats voiced by Hillary Clinton in a telephone conversation she had with Prime Minister Netanyahu, described in the March 12 Times. “In a tense, 43-minute phone call on Friday morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s plan for new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem sent a ‘deeply negative signal’ about Israeli-American relations.”

The Times has reported, “The President was outraged by the announcement of 1,600 housing units in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in East Jerusalem during Mr. Biden’s visit, administration officials said.  ”Mr. Obama was deeply involved in the strategy and planning for Mr. Biden’s visit and orchestrated the response from Mr. Biden and Mrs. Clinton after it went awry, these officials said.”

Observing Barack Hussein Obama’s recent treatment of Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of the nation of Israel, one of our most steadfast allies, was excruciating.   This narcissistic neophyte proved himself to be, again, (though this was the most extreme example thus far in his completely disastrous ‘foreign policy’), clueless, and classless.

Our other clownish figure on the world stage, Joe Biden, visited Israel to make the usual unreasonable demands on that nation, the ostensible reason being to resume the mythical peace process between Israel and Palestine.  He discovered, and he was shocked, shocked, to find that there were some new apartments being built in Jerusalem, as it had been determined by Israeli government officials that more housing was needed in that part of the city.

Obama, it was reported, was absolutely incensed that the decision of a sovereign nation to build needed housing in ITS OWN CAPITAL was being contemplated, and this was immediately conveyed to the Israeli leader.  This was done in a public manner so insulting and contemptuous that it is unforeseen in Israeli/American relations.

But what our so-called President did, and attempted to do, to Benjamin Netanyahu, no one has ever seen an American leader do to a head of state of another nation – even one with who we have been at war.

The Prime Minister came to Washington and agreed to meet with Obama to discuss the issue, and Obama not only would not pose for a photograph with Netanyahu, socialist Obama refused to negotiate in any way, only commanding his fellow head of state that his orders be followed, (Obama in fact handed a list of 13 demands to the Israeli leader, among them to stop the aforementioned apartment construction).  Prime Minister Netanyahu would not allow himself to be bullied, and, in protecting the country he loves and serves so well, would not back down from the seemingly harmless construction in question.  As he pointed out to Obama, “Jerusalem is the capital of my country.  It is not a settlement.”

Obama then flounced out of the room in the White House where he had been meeting with the Prime Minister, telling Netanyahu to consider “the error of his ways,” and our President went upstairs to dine with his wife and daughters.  He instructed Mr. Netanyahu, who was left to cool his heels in their meeting room with his advisors, to “let me know when there’s something new.” 

The Prime Minister was left there for an appropriately (for Obama) insulting period of time, and when Obama did manage to come back to the meeting room, he found that there was in fact ‘nothing new.’ The Netanyahu entourage was then sent forth from the White House, without being allowed to speak to either nation’s press.

American Presidents do not embarrass and humiliate their nation and its citizens by acting, on the world stage, like an African colonial despot of a third world banana republic. To see a real man leading a nation as an actual grown-up makes watching our present egotistical adolescent even more painful as he pretends to be a real President.

Israel has been, since its inception, a stalwart friend to the United States, as we have been to that country and its citizens. That nation is (as quoted from House Minority Leader John Boehner), “our closest friend, the strongest democracy and our most important military ally” in that part of the world, and it has remained so for decades, despite being surrounded on every side by nations who want, and work toward, Israel’s annihilation.  The incredibly brave, proud and largely solitary nation and its people, have consistently been treated by American leaders with the respect that it and they deserve, until, in yet another ignominious first on the part of Obama, hope and change came to America.

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