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June 02, 2009
Ways Obama is Looking to Punish Israel
U.S. Weighs Tactics on Israeli Settlement
WASHINGTON
As President Obama prepares to head to the Middle East this week, administration officials are debating how to toughen their stance against any expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The measures under discussion — all largely symbolic — include stepping back from America’s near-uniform support for Israel in the United Nations if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel does not agree to a settlement freeze, administration officials said.
Other measures include refraining from the instant Security Council veto of United Nations resolutions that Israel opposes and making use of Mr. Obama’s bully pulpit to criticize the settlements, officials said. Placing conditions on loan guarantees to Israel, as the first President Bush did nearly 20 years ago, is not under discussion, officials said.
Still, talk of even symbolic actions that would publicly show the United States’ ire with Israel, its longtime ally, would be a sharp departure from the previous administration, which limited its distaste with Israel’s settlement expansions to carefully worded diplomatic statements that called them “unhelpful.”
Mr. Obama is to give a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world from Egypt on Thursday. “There are things that could get the attention of the Israeli public,” a senior administration official said, touching on the widespread belief within the administration that any Israeli prime minister risks political peril if the Israeli electorate views him as endangering the country’s relationship with the United States.
But, the official added, “Israel is a critical United States ally, and no one in this administration expects that not to continue.” He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly.
White House officials said Mr. Obama would not make the Cairo speech entirely about the Arab-Israeli conflict, but would instead seek to engage Muslims on the panoply of issues facing Islam and the West, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
But the core issue, administration officials said, is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “I want to use the occasion to deliver a broader message about how the United States can change for the better its relationship with the Muslim world,” Mr. Obama told reporters last week. “But certainly, the issue of Middle East peace is something that is going to need to be addressed. It is a critical factor in the minds of many Arabs in countries throughout the region and beyond the region.”
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Wild Thing's comment........
“...White House officials said they wanted greater Arab acceptance of Mr. Obama’s peace plans.....”
Terrorists and peace...now there is an oxy-moron! Come on, this is total BS...terrorists listen to one thing only....power!
I hope Isreal is tenacious and ruthless in their defense, which I suspect they will be.
Bottom line is that if Obama wins, Israel will lose!
Posted by Wild Thing at June 2, 2009 05:45 AM
Comments
Maybe after this speech in Cairo, the American Jews who so dutifully voted for Obama will realize that obama is using Israel and them.
His support of the Palestinains, and their cause, the aid he's sending, training of a Palestinian Army. Where is the American Jewish community screaming Outrage.
Netanyahu thinks Iran is closer to making the bomb than anyone knows. Obama is waiting for the end of the year, for what the next Halocaust. The man is a piece of crap.
Posted by: Mark at June 2, 2009 12:25 PM
Yes Mark and I can only wish that he dies before he starts WWIII which is about to happn thanks to him.
Bye bye persia! POOF!
Posted by: cuchieddie (DHS suspected terrorist)) at June 2, 2009 12:29 PM
Also don't forget the thousands of Hamas "refugees" from Palestine that Obama is bringing to America. These muzzies will raise hell here at home anytime we do anything for Israel. And we will be subsidizing these shitheads 100% with our tax dollars.
Wish I could find some more ammo!
Posted by: TomR at June 2, 2009 03:47 PM
Mark, I would be willing to bet that BiBi
Netanyahu has better intel too with the
Massad about Iran then we do. After Pelosi
has called our CIA liars they may be more
concerned about their jobs and safety right
now then getting information on Iran.
Pelosi did a lot of damage in what she did.
Netanyahu must be so furious at Obama.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 2, 2009 11:13 PM
cuchieddie, I love the sound of that.
"Bye bye persia! POOF!"
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 2, 2009 11:16 PM
Tom, oh yesss that's right, tha Hamas
coming here. People that don't care
about that sure forgot about 9-11 and
how these terrorists celebrated that
day against America.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 2, 2009 11:18 PM
