With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting next week, US-Israeli relations are at what many are warning is a long-time low. Bar-Ilan University expert in US-Israeli relations Eytan Gilboa warned that the untouchable, bipartisan nature of the alliance “has now been badly broken.”
The Obama Administration is open with its criticism of Netanyahu, but will not be boycotting the AIPAC conference as previously speculated. Rather, they’re sending National Security Adviser Susan Rice and UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
The choice of speakers suggests they’re going to keep the tensions rising, with Rice openly condemning Netanyahu this week for being “destructive” to US relations by making ties into a partisan issue.
Republican Congressional leaders orchestrated Netanyahu’s visit, over objections from the White House, and Netanyahu has been clear about his intentions to use the visit to lobby against diplomacy with Iran, saying he will “do anything” to kill the diplomatic process.
Nutty Yahoo will be talking @*%** at the AIPAC conference. Bonehead Boehner invited him to speak. He hopes that will mean the next prez is a Republican. This nation & much of its allies do too much for Israel. They excuse Israel's persecution of Arabs, its ethnic cleansing & invasions of neighboring countries. Nutty Yahoo is telling the same lies about Iran that"W" told about Iraq.
'Badly broken' as in we won't be sending $$$ & providing cover at the UN for Israel any longer..? Not so much..? Oh.
That's weak. They should have boycotted it anyway. Or send a WH janitor.
Rice is so maniacally pro Israel anti Palestinian that it surpasses anything she advocates for America.
Read her statements. She is only worried about the controversy of Netanyahu speech as it might stir up debate on the so called special relationship not on the standing of the President or the White House.
It may be of interest that the online Israel blogger army is out in force and indeed the Washington Post and other forums are deleting any posts critical of Israel to an extent that occurred prior to the Iraq 2003 invasion.
There is no doubt as to who controls the American people and its Government.
it surely is not the American people..
The manliest of the manly in the Bush-Obama Administration. For only women can emasculate a man, it being an act of stupidity beyond the human mind to comprehend.
I got my hopes up with your headline re: The Administration sending Rice and Power to AIPAC—
I was hoping,— like for keeps.
So the administration of the First Warrior folded before Nutty. No surprise.
Netanyahu should be told he cannot come. If he persists, his plane should be turned around and sent back to Israel.. Obama should only send DOJ and counter-espionage agents to AIPAC to make mass arrests for aiding a foreign power and abetting terrorism. How about sicking the IRS on the the attendees. I am sure they are rife with offenders.
Obama knows better. Even though it's the last lap of his Presidency and he has nothing to lose, he knows better than to boycott mighty AIPAC.
These tensions are just theater, part of the phony Left-Right control matrix. FOX News cannot cry anymore about how Obama doesn't support Israel than they already do.
There isn't ENOUGH damage to AIPAC and this BS special relationship (IE, Israel = the 51st State, probably gets more $$$ than many actual states) for my taste. I wanna see some actual push back here, and until I do, it's all smoke and mirrors.