Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak to the Congress of the United States for the third time. Winston Churchill is the only other foreign leader to speak three times on Capitol Hill. President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry will return the favor by refusing to meet Netanyahu during his trip. Between Bibi and Barack reigns pure contempt. George Will, the Washington Post columnist, called Netanyahu the anti Obama, the nemesis of the American president. The Israeli daily Maariv commented on the way the Obama Administration consistently receives the delegation from Jerusalem: There is no exercise in humiliation that Americans have not tried with the prime minister and his entourage. Bibi received in the White House the same treatment of the president of Equatorial Guinea. A pain in the a... is the way Obama describes Netanyahu. Obama has been photographed with shoes on the table in the Oval Office while on the phone with Netanyahu to reprimand him on the building of a few houses for the settlers. When Obama visited Israel, two years ago, he embraced President Peres, but he only shook hands with Netanyahu. The expert on body language, Tonya Reiman, said that Obama shows contempt in his eyes for Netanyahu. And during a previous visit of Netanyahu in Washington, the Israeli prime minister refused to capitulate to the White Houses request to resume the negotiation process with the Palestinian Arabs. Obama stood up and said: I am going to dinner with Michelle and the girls. But this human contempt also reveals strategic political implications. No other country is interested in protecting the right of existence of Israel like the United States, which often blocks anti-Israel resolutions at the Security Council of the United Nations. The Israel-America axis dominated the international scene from 1948 to today. Yet, neo-isolationist Obama seems to see Israel as an asset no more, but as a problem to be managed or resolved.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:15:47 +0000
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