Tensions between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are on the rise once again today, after Netanyahu announced he was going to the US at the behest of House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH) without an invite from the president.
The White House warned it was a “departure from protocol,” and it’s setting the stage for an awkward moment, as Netanyahu plans to lobby for Iran sanctions to try to drum up enough support to override Obama’s veto.
Israeli analysts are warning the move to undercut Obama on Iran risks further worsening US-Israeli relations, which are already getting worse and worse as time goes by.
Secretary of State John Kerry sought to downplay the move, saying Netanyahu is welcome to come to the US to undermine administration policy whenever he wants, but given that Netanyahu’s stance toward Iran is facing considerable internal opposition, going to the US to lobby against negotiations is risky, to say the least.
It seems that Israel sees the USA as directly subject to Israel, too.
Where in hell does that nitwit, Boehner, get off inviting this Nazi to address Congress in the teeth of official disapproval? Are he and the rest of the Republican Party so owned by The Lobby that he -and they – feel they can risk a public display of loyalty in which their own country comes in second? That Boehner could even consider such a step is an indication of how utterly bankrupt the Republicans really are. But I'll bet the torture supporting Pat Buchanan will find a way to support the move. He never met a Republican politician he didn't prefer to a Democrat.
It would be nice if Obama declare this scumbag Persona Non Grata.
Now, if there was ever anything that could rile the Congress to the point of actually pursuing impeachment instead of just threatening, this would do it.
as Netanyahu plans to lobby for Iran sanctions to try to drum up enough support to override Obama’s veto.
who runs the country, Obama or Netanyahu?
Netanyahu and Israel own you patsies. – luv from Canada
and p.s., Harper is trying to take us the same way.
What's the big deal? Bibi's merely going to address The Knesset Western Branch Office.
What protocol? Just visiting another occupied territory.
He shows up despite not invited to all sorts of places. Hope he does not manage the same feat for the heaven but really shows up where is supposed to – the Hell. But then God will be antisemite since Hitler lives there.
Will Netanyahu be handing out cookies?
Netanyahu being on the outs with Obama at least is a positive development. Just too bad the politician swines will play it for for netanyahu for the sake of domestic politics.
The little idiot stepping on toes wherever he goes.
Like I said with Heebdo: If the French President really didn't want him there, he would have had the police meet him on the airport tarmac and forced him back onto his plane…of course something else would have blown up in France or someone else would have died because of it, but at least he would have gotten his point across.
Obama should do the same thing. Give the bastard something else to be paranoid about.
But he won't. He's scared of Bibi, his actual boss.