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Tanuki

(14,922 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 12:17 PM May 2017

'Angry' Netanyahu orders ministers to attend Trump reception

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/21/angry-netanyahu-orders-ministers-attend-trump-israeli-arrival

"Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has reportedly been forced to order his ministers to attend the airport reception for Donald Trump on Monday, after discovering that a number had planned not to attend.

According to reports in the Israeli media, an angry Netanyahu was informed on Sunday that party heads and a number of ministers planned to skip the reception after the White House had asked for the meet and greet to be shortened to the two countries’ anthems and handshakes only between Netanyahu and Trump.
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The visit comes at a tense time ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War in early June – which for Palestinians marks five decades of occupation – and amid a continuing hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails that has prompted sometimes violent demonstrations on the West Bank.

Trump’s problems at home are also seen by some as having cast a pall over the proceedings, with Dan Shapiro, the former US ambassador to Israel under Barack Obama, predicting: “I think the trip’s in a lot of jeopardy [in] being able to be productive because of all the chaos and controversy that’s going on in Washington.”....(more)
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'Angry' Netanyahu orders ministers to attend Trump reception (Original Post) Tanuki May 2017 OP
So he wants to desecrate a holy battle ground, DK504 May 2017 #1
Run on shampoo gratuitous May 2017 #2

DK504

(3,847 posts)
1. So he wants to desecrate a holy battle ground,
Sun May 21, 2017, 12:28 PM
May 2017

uses classified Israeli intelligence to inform the Russians information they should have never received. Now he wants to blow off Ministers and Party leaders of Israel because he knows he is so out classed he can't be allowed to bumble through some kind of a reception, or state dinner, which is a normal outing for a foreign leader visiting.

Will he tell Bebe he likes with what he's done in the stolen Palestinian settlements. I'm sure The Chump will give him decorating advice.

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