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| Sultan Knish: Why Obama Hates Netanyahu |
| 2014-11-02 |
| Obama's foreign policy was supposed to reboot America's relationship with the rest of the world. Old allies would become people we occasionally talked to. Old enemies would become new allies. Goodbye Queen, hello Vladimir. Trade the Anglosphere for Latin America's Marxist dictatorships. Replace allied governments in the Middle East with Islamists and call it a day for the Caliphate. Very little of that went according to plan. Obama is still stuck with Europe. The Middle East and Latin American leftists still hate America. The Arab Spring imploded. Japan, South Korea and India have conservative governments. And then there's Israel. The original plan was to sideline Israel by focusing on the Muslim world. Instead of directly hammering Israel, the administration would transform the region around it. The American-Israeli relationship would implode not through conflict, but because the Muslim Brotherhood countries would take its place. That didn't work out too well. Instead of gracefully pivoting away, Obama loudly snubbed Netanyahu. A photo of him poking his finger in Netanyahu's chest captured the atmosphere. Netanyahu delivered a speech that Congress cheered. And Obama came to see him as a domestic political opponent. The torrent of anti-Israel leaks from the administration is a treatment usually reserved for political opponents. The snide remarks by White House spokesmen and the anonymous personal attacks on Netanyahu in the media echo domestic hate campaigns out of the White House like Operation Rushbo. Netanyahu wasn't just the leader of a country that the left hated. He had become an honorary Republican. Oh, the shame of it!!! |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 It's gone on beyond all that now. People who dislike Netayahu, disagree with him, oppose him: they all at least respect him. Whereas now days, not many people respect Obama, not even his allies. (Witness the run up to the election, if you doubt that.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-11-02 08:10 |
| #1 Excellent analysis but I thought it was because obama is a Muslim so be default he hates Netanyahu. |
| Posted by: airandee 2014-11-02 06:35 |