Obama Official: Netanyahu Waiting for ‘President Palin’

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Obama Official: Netanyahu Waiting for ‘President Palin’

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137940


The Netanyahu government’s attitude to the United States shows it is “waiting for President Palin, an Obama official reportedly told Peter Beinart, writing for the Atlantic Monthly news site. Palin was the Republican candidate for vice president two years ago and is considered a front-running candidate for the next presidential election in 2012.

“As an Obama official once told me about the Netanyahu team, with amazement, ‘these guys are actually waiting for President Palin,’” wrote Beinart, a senior political writer for The Daily Beast and associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York.

In a critical article noting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and senior government officials preach to the chorus of right-wing and Christian fundamentalist groups in the United States, Beinart cited the American education and background of the Prime Minister and senior aides. Prime Minister Netanyahu learned at a Philadelphia high school and his close adviser Ron Dermer and Ambassador to the United States were born there.

He maintained that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reaction to the flotilla crisis “shows just how out of touch he is with America” while ignoring what Beinart said is the “need to join the age of Obama.”

“This familiarity breeds overconfidence and ignorance,” Beinart argues. “When Netanyahu travels to Washington, he speaks before Jewish audiences that mostly dislike Barack Obama’s Israel policy, even though according to a recent American Jewish Committee survey, American Jews overall support it by a margin of close to two to one. When he’s not speaking to right-wing Jews, he’s speaking to right-wing Christians. And when he’s not speaking to right-wing Christians, he’s speaking to former Bush administration officials who expect to soon be back in their old jobs.”

Beinart also asserted that today’s Arab leaders, such as Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who learned at an American university, support non-violence. Beinart contrasted him with Yasser Arafat, although Fayyad is often careful to be photographed with a picture of Arafat in the background.

(IsraelNationalNews.com)

[Cant trust em]

1. This is not going to be received well. nt

[Jennicut]

2. Good luck on that one Bibi. Palin won't even win the nomination.

Not enough Repubs even like her. I am not seeing it. But I do think the Obama Administration is waiting for Tzipi Livni, not that she would be much better...

[AlinPA]

7. Either Palin or Thune will be the nominee, IMO. Thune is a fundamentalist Christian and the base

of the republican party (teabaggers and the right-wing Christians) will have a hard time deciding between the two.

[kenny blankenship]

11. When they say "President Palin" I think they mean any RW nutjob that gets in the WH

They could not ask for better than they got with George W. Bush - a US President that actually wanted Israel to start wars, and who greenlighted Israels' wholesale assassination of its negotiating opposite numbers in the PLA. A President Palin would not be better for expansionist Israel than that. However, any RW loon sufficiently insane to unite the GOP mainstream with its Teabagger Wing-and thus have a shot at the WH- would be welcomed by Israel. It's kind of surprising that the US news media hasn't drawn the obvious conclusion from Israel's actions --announcing new settlements just before a meet with VP Biden, shooting up a cruise ship with humanitarian aid from Turkey and killing several aid workers in international waters-- that the government of Israel has no actual interest in pursuing "negotiations" unless and until its religious allies and fellow madmen are back in power in Washington. Then again, I don't really mean that. It's not surprising the media would ignore the obvious conclusion at all. That's what they get paid for. I just hoped Obama would anticipate Israeli intransigence, and preempt them with a firmer line, before they demonstrated it with bullets and shells.

Me, I'm waiting for a Democratic President who has a higher goal than just aiding Israel to consolidate its latest rounds of theft and genocide for 4 years.

[Sanity Claws]

3. He sure knows how to get people to like him

HaHa. What an inept idiot.

[Blue_Tires]

4. LOL at that!

[secondwind]

5. "is considered a front-running candidate....." Seriously??? Really? They are really a

ONE-ISSUE people, aren't they.........jeez! And I love the Jewish faith and the Jewish people, but this is ridiculous!

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Don't blame the Jews!

This is pure Netanyahu-ism. It's only Jewish by association. A whole lot of Jews in and outside of Israel hold Bibi in contempt. But he and his apparatus have become masters at manipulating fear and xenophobia.

--d!

[Liberal Veteran]

6. I'm waiting for my check for 100 million dollars from Nigeria.

I wonder which one of us will get our wish first?

[denverbill]

8. Who knows how the right will feel about McPalin in 2012?

Right-wingers tried to recall McCain in 2002 or thereabouts, then voted for him like lemmings in 2008. Now they are trying to vote him out in the primary, while McPalin is backing McCain against their boy.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. Back in the 90's Bibi had close ties to Gingritch and the religious right...

establishment. He is smart enough to know that right wing Christians only care about Israel because they salivate for the day Jesus comes back and tortures to death 18 million Jews, leaving alive only 180,000 Jewish male virgins who have converted so they will fight the devil at Armageddon. Yes, Bibi knows a useful idiot when he meets one and a return of Republicans for power is good for Bibi.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. 144,000

or 12,000 from each tribe.

Where did you get 180,000? :evilgrin:

[Ozymanithrax]

15. Misremembered. I stand corrected. I'm just bad with numbers. But that lets Jesus kill more. n/t

[damntexdem]

12. Waitin' for Palin, and soon to be failin'.

And bringing his nation down with him.

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Makes sense, when you think about it.

One batshit crazy religious genocidal lunatic, waiting for another. :puke:

[ColesCountyDem]

16. Bibi, does the phrase "when hell freezes over" mean anything to you? n/t

[Jefferson23]

17. Unfortunately, far too high a percentage of Americans are not aware

of the dangers of such a relationship, if that were to occur. And if it were not Palin, some other Republican, such as Romney would be
more than happy to give a free reign to Israel regarding Gaza. This I find disturbing, and it should be understood that Israel's misguided
approach to their neighbors has an impact on our national security, but they are so self absorbed in acquiring the West Bank for their state
they don't give a damn about the consequences to their ally the USA. We'll see how far Obama will push, I hope he uses all the courage
any one president can find within. With a Republican in power, there would be no hope at all for peace..none.

[Ken Burch]

18. Which will come first: A Palin Administration, or the Messiah?

n/t.

[Safya]

19. nither