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| Obama: Netanyahu Too Strong, Abbas Too Weak For Peace | ||
| 2014-08-10 | ||
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... too weak, for the two leaders to fully cooperate and make the concessions needed in order to achieve a long lasting peace agreement between Israel and the Paleostinians, US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... asserted Friday. Speaking during an interview with the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ' Thomas L. Friedman, Obama said he believed Netanyahu's high approval ratings among the Israeli populace contributed to the stalemate in peace negotiations, since Netanyahu was consequently less inclined to engage in risky and divisive ...politicians call things divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive,they're principled... political endeavors. Netanyahu's "poll numbers are a lot higher than mine," Obama admitted, adding that the Israeli prime minister's favorable ratings "were greatly boosted by the war in Gazoo." The president argued that "if [Netanyahu] doesn't feel some internal pressure, then it's hard to see him being able to make some very difficult compromises, including taking on the settler movement. That's a tough thing to do." Obama contended that as opposed to Netanyahu's solid backing in Israel, Abbas lacked popular support from the Paleostinian people and as a result was constrained in his ability to push a peace agreement forward. "In some ways, Bibi [Netanyahu] is too strong [and] in some ways Abu Mazen [Abbas] is too weak to bring them together and make the kinds of bold decisions that [Egypt's president] Sadat or [Israeli prime ministers] Begin or Rabin were willing to make," Obama said. "It's going to require leadership among both the Paleostinians and the Israelis to look beyond tomorrow. … And that's the hardest thing for politicians to do is to take the long view on things." When asked whether he was concerned over the fate of Israel in the future, Obama replied that the Jewish state's extraordinary achievements over the decades since its creation, along with the country's military might, provided him with solid reason to believe no threat existed to the survival of the nation.
"I think the question really is how does Israel survive," Obama said. "How can you preserve a Jewish state that is also reflective of the best values of those who founded Israel. And, in order to do that, it has consistently been my belief that you have to find a way to live side by side in peace with Paleostinians. … You have to recognize that they have legitimate claims, and this is their land and neighborhood as well." Earlier in the interview, the US president weighed on what the New York Times described as the "disintegration" of the familiar world order, including recent Russian aggression in Ukraine, military advances of the radical sunni Lion of Islam Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and the shifting attitudes towards American intervention in embattled countries across the world. Tensions between Netanyahu and Obama have run high recently over American efforts to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo, with Israeli officials aiming sharp criticism at the administration in Washington for its handling of the negotiations. US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , left, talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the US ambassador's residence in Gay Paree (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak) Under particular scrutiny was US Secretary of State John Kerry's choice of turning to Qatar and Turkey as mediators, ostensibly undermining an earlier Egyptian ceasefire proposal. Turkey and especially Qatar have close ties with Hamas, while Egypt has shown deep animosity towards the Islamist group since the toppling of Cairo's Moslem Brüderbund government last year by now-President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 #7 - Stolen, B. Great clip |
| Posted by: Frank G on the road 2014-08-10 13:51 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-10 12:29 |
| #6 "What am I doing wrong?" A question he will never ask himself. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-08-10 11:23 |
| #5 "bent sh!t can" remark. LOL! If Obumble did not think he is so infallible, he might just ask: "Why are Netahyahu's numbers greater than mine? What is he doing right? What am I doing wrong?" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-10 10:51 |
| #4 Netanyahu's "poll numbers are a lot higher than mine,..." Yeah, and if you took a poll you would probably also find a bent sh!t-can would out score you as well. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-08-10 10:45 |
| #3 ...like zero scoring soccer. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-10 09:33 |
| #2 Please forgive the poor, indolent fok. He can only think in sports terms. He sees his job as ensuring next season's draft is done equitably, that everyone has an equal chance of winning. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-10 00:50 |
| #1 Obama - What happened to winners and losers? Is that no longer an acceptable situation in your twisted MB logic? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-10 00:21 |