Showing posts with label Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2015

“The first thing Obama will do...is pick a fight with Israel”

June 21, 2015 Israel , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 0 Comments
Ambassador Reveals How Obama Undermined Israel
By Larry Getlen, Jun. 21, 2015, NYPost.com

On Nov. 8, 2011, President Obama met with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Cannes after what had been a particularly rough week for US-Israeli relations.

The week prior, the UN agency UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member state. Congress responded by cutting off UNESCO’s funding, a move the Obama administration direly opposed. Michael Oren, who served as Israel’s US ambassador from 2009 to 2013, said the president, having opposed Palestine’s admission to the agency, “thought he had done enough . . . and did not need to punish them further.”

President Obama responded to Congress’ act by admonishing Israel for supporting it, with Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides telling Oren, “UNESCO teaches Holocaust studies, for chrissakes. You want to cut off f–king Holocaust studies?”


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Monday, June 15, 2015

Sacrificial Lamb?

June 15, 2015 Iran Nuclear Procurement , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 0 Comments
Israel Accuses World Powers Of Yielding To Iran For Nuclear Deal

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By Dan Williams, Jun. 14, 2015, Yahoo

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused world powers on Sunday of stepping up concessions to Iran to enable a deal by June 30 on curbing its nuclear program even as Tehran balks at demands for heightened U.N. inspections.

Netanyahu has argued that the agreement in the works would not deny Iran - which says its nuclear projects are peaceful - the means of making a bomb, while granting it sanctions relief that could help bankroll its guerrilla allies in the region.

"To our regret, the reports that are coming in from the world powers attest to an acceleration of concessions by them in the face of Iranian stubbornness," Netanyahu told his cabinet in broadcast remarks on Sunday. He did not offer further details.

Netanyahu's point-man on the Iranian talks, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, said it appeared that world powers were prepared to accommodate Tehran's resistance to expanded, short-order U.N. nuclear inspections and demand to continue research and development of uranium centrifuges that make nuclear fuel.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

So Kerry, Obama Full Of it?

June 10, 2015 Iran , Israel 0 Comments
Iran Deal Won't Keep It From Obtaining Bomb: Israel PM

By AFP, Jun. 9, 2015, Yahoo.com

Jerusalem (AFP) - An emerging deal between Iran and world powers won't prevent the Islamic republic from reaching nuclear weapon capacity, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, noting Arab states shared his concern.

"I know I'm often portrayed as the nuclear party pooper, and that would be okay if I was the only voice against the impending deal with Iran," he said at a security conference at Herzliya near Tel Aviv.

"But I speak with quite a few with our neighbours, more than you think. And I want to tell you that nobody in this region believes this deal will block Iran's path to the bomb.”

Netanyahu's remarks came as a June 30 deadline looms for a deal that would row back Iran's nuclear programme in return for relief from sanctions, which Israel has long opposed, causing friction with the White House.


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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Crickets...

June 09, 2015 Associated Press , Gaza Rockets 0 Comments
Israeli Premier Criticizes World's 'Silence' On Gaza Rockets

AP News, Jun. 7, 2015

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized what he described as the world's "silence" over recent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, drawing a quick response from his country's closest ally, the U.S.

Netanyahu, speaking at his weekly Cabinet meeting, said he hadn't heard anyone condemn three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. The rockets caused no damage, nor any injuries.

"It will be interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves," Netanyahu said. "It should be clear: the hypocrisy that is sweeping the world will not chain our hands from defending the citizens of Israel."

In Germany, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. officials had spent "a lot of time talking about this" during Israel's recent war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

What Does That Even Mean?

June 03, 2015 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , Jews 0 Comments
Obama To Axelrod: 'I Am the Closest Thing To A Jew' Ever To Sit In WH

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By Melissa Clyne, Jun. 2, 2015, Newsmax

A dismayed President Barack Obama recently vented to his friend and former chief campaign adviser David Axelrod about being perceived by some as a foe to Israel, according to JP Updates.com, The Daily Caller reported.

"'You know, I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office,'" Axelrod recalled during an interview. "'For people to say that I am anti-Israel, or, even worse, anti-Semitic, it hurts.'"

Opining on the deteriorated relationship between the U.S. and Israel, Axelrod criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for caring more about elections than the long-term security of his country.

"The world of politics everywhere is divided into two categories: the first and more common is the people who run for public office because they want to be somebody," he said. "A smaller group is made of respectable people who run for public office because they want to do something — something positive. Shape the future in a positive way. I think Benjamin Netanyahu completely falls in the first category.

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