The relationship between the United States and Israel are the worst they’ve been since the State of Israel was declared in 1948 and it can be solely blamed on the Obama administration.
What’s behind the sour relationship between the two countries? Obama is insisting that Israel cease all settlements in parts of Jerusalem. Let’s be clear, Jerusalem in the Capital of Israel. Imagine some foreign government demanding that we cease building housing in Washington DC and then demand that we cede portions of our Capital in exchange for peace with Iran. What would Obama do- agree? Then again… Hopefully, he would take the same position as Prime Minister Netanyahu and object.
Obama and his liberal allies are so quick to remind us that countries like Iran have a right to govern their country without outside influences from the United States. Do you recall the administration’s response when protesters in Iran were taking to the street and the Iranian government brutally responded? And yet, Obama find it necessary to demand Israel cease building homes on their land in their Capital. He must have a different standard of Israel.
It’s also interesting that he can bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, but refuses to take a picture with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Sorry, but Barak Hussein Obama’s treatment and attitude toward Israel stems from something much deeper than his disapproval of settlements in Jerusalem. We can only suspect why Barak Hussein Obama would act the way he has toward the Jewish State.
From the TimeOnline UK:
Two separate meetings between President Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, failed to produce so much as an official photograph as a chill settled over US-Israeli relations and secrecy shrouded any efforts to repair them.
The Israeli Prime Minister was due to fly home from Washington after three days marked by Israeli defiance on the issue of settlements and an extraordinary silence maintained by both sides after his three-and-a-half-hour visit to the White House.
The meeting was overshadowed by Israeli approval for 20 homes built for Jews in Arab east Jerusalem — a move denounced by one senior US official as “exactly what we expect Prime Minister Netanyahu to get control of”.
White House staff denied Mr Netanyahu the usual photo opportunities afforded to a visiting leader, issued only the vaguest summary of their talks — let alone a joint statement — and reversed a decision to release an official photo of their meetings.
It was speculated that the talks may have moved beyond the quarrel over Israeli construction in east Jerusalem to final status issues such as the borders of a Palestinian state, as well as Iran and its nuclear programme. However, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, would say only that Mr Obama had asked Mr Netanyahu for confidence-building gestures and clarification of his position on settlements. He described the talks as “honest and straightforward”.
Mr Obama also held telephone talks yesterday with Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and President Sarkozy on Iran, the Middle East peace process and global economic issues, Mr Gibbs said.
Before departing, Mr Netanyahu met with Mr Obama’s envoy George Mitchell, who worked for months to get the Palestinians to take part in indirect negotiations with Israel, only to see them balk when Israel revealed plans for 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem. The announcement came on March 9, during Vice-President Joe Biden’s latest trip to Jerusalem.
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said she wanted peace talks to resume as soon as possible, a sentiment echoed by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, who said he will urge Arab leaders to support indirect talks.
In Jerusalem the government press office issued a terse statement saying that the talks had been held in a good atmosphere. They went on longer than expected with the leaders meeting for 90 minutes, then again for half an hour after a long private discussion between Mr Netanyahu and his advisers in the White House Roosevelt Room. The choreography of the evening suggested that the talks covered substantive proposals, possibly including an undertaking from Mr Netanyahu to prevent ill-timed announcements of Israeli construction. Yet there is little doubt that Mr Netanyahu’s stance on settlements has left him struggling to persuade a newly confident US President of his willingness to compromise for peace.
White House sources said that observers were right to infer from the news blackout that relations between the two sides were not good but later hinted that some Israeli proposals had been favourably received. Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been shelved since 2008…
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