Inept and insulting
Jackson deal reviews Obama's inept and insulting treatment of Netanyahu, and paints a picture of a President acting as a spoiled child who is angry over not getting his way and not as someone who has a goal and a strategy to get there. Diehl depicts Obama's explanations for his behavior as follows:
The White House’s explanations for Obama’s behavior keep shifting. At first spokesmen insisted that the president had to respond to the “insult” of the settlement announcement during a visit to Jerusalem by Vice President Biden -- even though the administration knew that, far from being a calculated snub, the decision by a local council had taken Netanyahu himself by surprise.
Next the administration argued that the scrap was a needed wake-up call for Netanyahu’s right-wing government, which, it was said, had been put on notice that its failure to move toward a settlement with Palestinians was endangering U.S. interests in the region. But -- assuming for the moment that the administration’s premise is correct -- Obama chose to challenge Netanyahu on a point that is not material to the creation of a Palestinian state. As the Israeli leader has pointed out, previous U.S. administrations and the Palestinians themselves have already accepted that Jewish neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem will be annexed to Israel in exchange for territory elsewhere.
Of course, we're talking about the poster on the right, which depicts an Arab Sheikh placing a medal (or is it a key) around Obama's neck. The sign at the top says "Danger. PLO agent in the White House."When the day comes that Obama needs to have the confidence of Israelis that he'll do the right thing - whether for a peace agreement with the 'Palestinians' or for Israel to hold off on Iran and let the US handle it - that confidence is not and will not be there. Israelis may have regarded Obama with suspicion two or three years ago. We now regard him with utter contempt.
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