US relations with Israel have been testy for months now, and are getting dramatically worse after a week of back-and-forth jibes over the Israeli settlement expansions, and a top US official calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.”
Israeli officials are furious, and many US Congressmen are up in arms about the comment, and the White House is trying to distance itself from the specific comment, albeit not the sentiment itself.
“We think such comments are inappropriate and counter-productive,” insisted Obama spokesman Alistair Baskey, though the White House also reiterated its opposition to Israeli settlement expansion, which is the source of the comment in the first place.
The official, who was not named, said Netanyahu was a “chickenshit” who was too afraid of political fallout to make concessions on the settlement expansion to make a peace deal with the Palestinians. Though Netanyahu condemned the comment, he reiterated his determination to keep expanding settlements, and won’t make any concessions on peace.
Netanyahu condemned the comment
I too will heretofore condemn any speech about me that tends to convey the truth to my detriment.
If they only stop giving war equipment and free money to Israel.
Not low enough.
Interesting contrast between reactions to Victoria Nuland's "F**k the EU" comment, and the "Netanyahu is a chickenshit" comment.
The Nuland comment had a mild to non-existent reaction from the punditry and from the white house. But of course any whiff of criticism of Israel or Israelis and American officials are doing backflips and groveling before their Israeli masters.
Imagine Victoria Nuland (Nudelman) or her husband Robert Kagan (the PNAC guy) for that matter, both tribal fellows, say anything of the sort about israel! It wont happen. They can and are entitled however, to say just anything about any other country or peoples and get away with it. Preferably those in US/israeli crosshairs.
I think that comment (chickenshit) should also applied to our officials in Washington for allowing Israel to do whatever they want without any repercussions.
The Zionazi abomination is a genocidal Frankenstein monster on constant US life support that just keep´s on killing and hating having the entire ME ablaze with eternal wars, pull out the plug already and let Palestine become a democracy for all races and ethnicities living in it. Otherwise this colonial, intollerant experiment will kill us all eventually.
De-programming such culture of supremacy, hate and paranoia will take age´s but if the Germans and the South Africans could so can they. Just do it.
yeah but baby jesus wouldn't like it……..
The same Congressmen and pundits that are having a conniption over the mild defaming of Netanyahou call Obama, and Putin worse names at the breakfast table every morning.
'US Congressmen are up in arms about the comment'
The (only) Congressmen up in arms are the political hacks,
whores, and prostitutes on AIPAC's payroll.
Benny Nuttyahoo is (lower) than chicken****
Israel — Chickenshit from start to finish
A high achievers paradise, a culture best described as shyster merchants who worship money as their god, who always monopolize things such as the diamond industry and pawn shop industry and who love to steal land at gunpoint anytime their shyster bankers and politicians can get a monopoly on government.
Let's see if any positive development comes about from this. Suspension of aid / equipment / taxpayer handout? Nah I bet the grift goes on.
Yep, this brief but refreshing moment of truth will probably end up costing US taxpayers plenty.
> “Israeli officials are furious…”
So what else is new? “israeli” officials are perpetually outraged and nearly apopleptic. Could it be that we are witnessing the dawning hours of the day that the “israeli” tail will finally stop wagging the American dog?
Don't you believe it. America is Israeli's B****. Lets see something tangible, like ending the 3-4 billion annual shakedown we give this vile country.
I wonder what it will take to get this Parasitical "special friend" off our backs. The only thing missing from the picture is Netanyahu's "Nation Beater" undershirt.
If the chickens come home to America again then that will perhaps change attitudes toward support of that evil apartheid regime that calls itself Israel. Nothing else will. So let's just hope that the chickens aren't radioactive!
Why does the U.S. congress feel that it's primary responsibility is to defend Israel, to support and finance a genuine pariah state with American tax dollars. Every U.S. representative and every U.S. senator who continues to rob Americans of their hard earned tax dollars to support Israel should be called to account. First by the constituents themselves and then by suits in federal courts against misappropriation of us tax payers dollars. The unbelievable cowards of congress, the selfish, immoral, unchristian pustules on the face of American democracy should be confronted by the voters in their districts and forced to say whether their loyalty is to their own people or to Israelis. This must be done, and ultimately will be done.
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America is the only country that is worried about offending its fifth column.
Start cancelling some foreign aid checks and shutting down some military and civil contracts and you can bet your bottom dollar the Israeli public will be very receptive to some home-grown regime change of their own. Even the appearance of our military installations there packing up and getting ready to move out would have a huge impact on the public.
I'm betting that just moving the stockpiles of Iron Dome interceptor missiles outside of Israel would get some very quick reaction. It would be terrible if there were another Qassam launch and there weren't enough reloads to pretend the system works- but before we ship you some more, how about that new settlement you had planned inside Palestine. Do you think you want to cancel that? Think carefully, it would be awful if some of those rockets got through and hurt anyone.
So it’s allright for the Israelis , the neo-cons and the Israel-Firsters to personally insult the President of the United States and the US Secretary of State, but if an American official makes a true statement about the fascist Noddingyahoo, the zionist-controlled worldwide media goes into a hissy-fit.
Faster, please.