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More Details: The Honourable President Obama Ignores The Ebil Juices For Dinner Alone
For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of.
| The man has no manners and few morals beyond a determination to be present as a father and husband. May his post-presidential life be very long and filled with reminders of how he made himself despised in his chosen nation and around the world, and how quickly his greatest triumphs were overthrown. |
Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night.
| The majority of Israelis saw through Candidate Obama's glamour before the election. Even more see him for what he is, now that he's been President Obama for a while. It strikes me as a reasonable proposition that, in turn, President Obama will insult each of the special interest groups that voted for him so enthusiastically in 2008. |
After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and "let me know if there is anything new", a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.
"It was awful," the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting "a hazing in stages", poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line.
| Gentlemen, of course, neither read one another's mail nor listen in on their phone calls. This simple statement encompasses my opinion of the situation. |
Another said that the Prime Minister had received "the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea".
Left to talk among themselves Mr Netanyahu and his aides retreated to the Roosevelt Room. He spent a further half-hour with Mr Obama and extended his stay for a day of emergency talks to try to restart peace negotiations. However, he left last night with no official statement from either side. He returned to Israel yesterday after what Israeli media have called a White House ambush.
| It seems to me Prime Minister Netanyahu ought to spend his next trip to the America with everyone else: his old friends from MIT, old friends from the military, CIA, both houses of Congress, various Jewish groups. President Obama has wasted enough time, and they both are busy men; it would be a courtesy to work with visitors from America who are ready to do something useful toward common goals, rather than waste time expressing childish pique. |
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-26 |
