White House Chief Of Staff Tries To Defuse Tension Over Netanyahu Trip To US

[Purveyor]

Source: Guardian UK

Dominic Rushe in New York
Sunday 25 January 2015 13.28 EST

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough moved to defuse a dispute over Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming trip to Washington on Sunday, calling relationships between the two countries “many faceted, deep and abiding”.

Administration officials told Israel’s Haaretz last week Netanyahu had “spat” in Obama’s face by arranging with Republican House speaker John Boehner to speak before Congress in March without first informing the White House.

The comment “does not reflect the views of this president or this White House”, McDonough told CBS. He said the importance of the relationship meant it was “above partisan politics”.

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On ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, CNN’s State of the Union and Fox News Sunday, McDonough defended White House positions on Yemen, Isis and other issues, and was at pains throughout to stress that relations with Israel remained strong.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/25/white-house-diffuses-netanyahu-congress-dispute

[SamKnause]

1. Israel wants to drag

the United States into World War lll.

Anyone who votes for further sanctions against Iran want to intentionally drag the United States into World War lll.

[geek tragedy]

2. Sigh. nt

[quadrature]

3. nothing forces Pres.Obama to attend ...

Bibi's speech.

[lsewpershad]

12. nor any democrat for that matter

I hope all democrats boy cott the sitting.

[williesgirl]

4. fuck Bibi, kill their aid from us. Use it to feed & house Americans

[Purveyor]

7. Kill their aid? Ha. With our new GOP controlled congress expect a substantial increase

in aid to israel IF the President goes along with it.

[sadoldgirl]

5. Perhaps it is time now

for Pelosi and Reid to publicly rebuke the invitation
from McConnell and Boener, but I believe them to
be to afraid of AIPAC to do so.

[CentralMass]

6. They should invite the opposition candidate to the WhiteHouse

[bemildred]

8. I like the way you think.

As long as we are at it, we should wade right into Israeli politics too.

[CentralMass]

9. Boner has already done that.

[bemildred]

10. Exactly. Why not Obama? He is the President.

It should be very entertaining watching them try to say that he has no say.

[Chemisse]

11. Why defuse tensions?

Let Boehner and Netanyahu sweat a little bit over this.