It's a good thing that we had a real diplomat in the White House, rather than an egotistical jerk.
Stephen Green writes:
//ANALYSIS: TRUE. Senior Israeli Diplomat Dore Gold Says Obama’s Arrogance Hurt Relationship with Israel.
The interview (in Hebrew) started with Gold relating a story from the funeral of Shimon Peres four months ago. He spoke of Prime Minister Netanyahu greeting each world leader who came to the funeral individually. As each leader left, Netanyahu shook their hands and exchanged a few niceties. Suddenly there was a phone call from Air Force One which along with the crew carried President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State [never will be president] John Kerry.
Yoav Horowitz, Netanyahu’s chief of staff, answered the phone because the Prime Minister was trying to see off the other leaders
“Tell your boss that if he wants a funeral like Peres’, he should begin to move, to go forward.” the American voice on the other end said. Horowitz passed on the message immediately. “Tell him,” Netanyahu responded, “that I give up the honor, because I have no intention of participating in the funeral of my country.”
So what Obama was trying to say to Netanyahu in his crass manner, If you “move forward” then you will be world-famous and admired and you will have a splendid funeral like Peres with dozens of world leaders coming to pay tribute.
Can you imagine the chutzpah it must take to tell an elected foreign leader what kind of funeral he’s going to get?
53 Posted at 12:52 pm by Stephen Green //
Showing posts with label Obama - Foreign Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama - Foreign Policy. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2017
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Vindictive and Petty is what Obama will be remembered for.
For the last eight years, Obama's personal treatment of Israel has been consistent with what a reasonable person would expect from a person who attended a church that had close ties to Louis Farrakhan.
Although this final "screw you" to Israel and American Jews and supporters of Israel is breath-taking.
//PRESIDENT OBAMA’S decision to abstain on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements reverses decades of practice by both Democratic and Republican presidents. The United States vetoed past resolutions on the grounds that they unreasonably singled out Jewish communities in occupied territories as an obstacle to Middle East peace, and that U.N. action was more likely to impede than advance negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
The measure, approved 14 to 0 by the Security Council Friday, is subject to the same criticism: It will encourage Palestinians to pursue more international sanctions against Israel rather than seriously consider the concessions necessary for statehood, and it will give a boost to the international boycott and divestment movement against the Jewish state, which has become a rallying cause for anti-Zionists. At the same time, it will almost certainly not stop Israeli construction in the West Bank, much less in East Jerusalem, where Jewish housing was also deemed by the resolution to be “a flagrant violation under international law.”
By abstaining, the administration did not explicitly support that position, which has not been U.S. policy since the Carter administration. In explaining the vote, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power pointed out that the council was sanctioning Israel even while failing to take action to stop a potential genocide in South Sudan or the slaughter in Aleppo, Syria. Yet in failing to veto the measure, the Obama administration set itself apart both from previous administrations and from the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, who spoke out strongly against the resolution.//
For the last eight years, Obama's personal treatment of Israel has been consistent with what a reasonable person would expect from a person who attended a church that had close ties to Louis Farrakhan.
Although this final "screw you" to Israel and American Jews and supporters of Israel is breath-taking.
//PRESIDENT OBAMA’S decision to abstain on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements reverses decades of practice by both Democratic and Republican presidents. The United States vetoed past resolutions on the grounds that they unreasonably singled out Jewish communities in occupied territories as an obstacle to Middle East peace, and that U.N. action was more likely to impede than advance negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
The measure, approved 14 to 0 by the Security Council Friday, is subject to the same criticism: It will encourage Palestinians to pursue more international sanctions against Israel rather than seriously consider the concessions necessary for statehood, and it will give a boost to the international boycott and divestment movement against the Jewish state, which has become a rallying cause for anti-Zionists. At the same time, it will almost certainly not stop Israeli construction in the West Bank, much less in East Jerusalem, where Jewish housing was also deemed by the resolution to be “a flagrant violation under international law.”
By abstaining, the administration did not explicitly support that position, which has not been U.S. policy since the Carter administration. In explaining the vote, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power pointed out that the council was sanctioning Israel even while failing to take action to stop a potential genocide in South Sudan or the slaughter in Aleppo, Syria. Yet in failing to veto the measure, the Obama administration set itself apart both from previous administrations and from the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, who spoke out strongly against the resolution.//
Monday, September 05, 2016
I guess when Obama said "Tell Vlad after the election, I can be more flexible", he didn't think he meant selling out the sacred national interests of...
... Islamic extremist.
So, now, he's suddenly a "tough guy"?
So, now, he's suddenly a "tough guy"?
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Good essay.
Richard Fernandez:
//As the discordant notes continue to waft from the stage, it's clear that far from shutting down foreign wars the Obama administration has become engaged all across the world. Max Fisher in the NYT writes, "Signs of trouble in Ukraine prompt question: what’s Vladimir Putin up to? When they're done fending Putin they can move on to the war in Iraq, and the ongoing operations in Libya. Then they might pause a while in Afghanistan where the capital of Helmand province is about to fall to the Taliban as the Obama backed government falls apart before gazing across to the Pacific to where China is raising the risk of military conflict, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This was supposed to be the Age of Aquarius, so the obvious question is how did it go so wrong? The obvious answer is maybe it was never right and the public is only now finding out.
Barack Obama bids fair to be remembered as the Florence Foster Jenkins of politics. Like that socialite he can't perform his job for beans. Like that socialite his friends are covering up for him. According to a Twitter whistleblower the social media giant's CEO ordered the employees to protect Obama from hurtful Tweets. "According to a former senior Twitter employee, Costolo ordered employees to deploy an algorithm (which was built in-house by feeding it thousands of examples of abuse and harassing tweets) that would filter out abusive language directed at Obama. Another source said the media partnerships team also manually censored tweets, noting that Twitter’s public quality-filtering algorithms were inconsistent. Two sources told BuzzFeed News that this decision was kept from senior company employees for fear they would object to the decision."//
Richard Fernandez:
//As the discordant notes continue to waft from the stage, it's clear that far from shutting down foreign wars the Obama administration has become engaged all across the world. Max Fisher in the NYT writes, "Signs of trouble in Ukraine prompt question: what’s Vladimir Putin up to? When they're done fending Putin they can move on to the war in Iraq, and the ongoing operations in Libya. Then they might pause a while in Afghanistan where the capital of Helmand province is about to fall to the Taliban as the Obama backed government falls apart before gazing across to the Pacific to where China is raising the risk of military conflict, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This was supposed to be the Age of Aquarius, so the obvious question is how did it go so wrong? The obvious answer is maybe it was never right and the public is only now finding out.
Barack Obama bids fair to be remembered as the Florence Foster Jenkins of politics. Like that socialite he can't perform his job for beans. Like that socialite his friends are covering up for him. According to a Twitter whistleblower the social media giant's CEO ordered the employees to protect Obama from hurtful Tweets. "According to a former senior Twitter employee, Costolo ordered employees to deploy an algorithm (which was built in-house by feeding it thousands of examples of abuse and harassing tweets) that would filter out abusive language directed at Obama. Another source said the media partnerships team also manually censored tweets, noting that Twitter’s public quality-filtering algorithms were inconsistent. Two sources told BuzzFeed News that this decision was kept from senior company employees for fear they would object to the decision."//
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