Years of acrimony between the Obama Administration and Israel’s far-right government have led to more than a few testy exchanges, but today’s White House meeting was anything but, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s description suggesting total capitulation from the president on all matters of import.
Netanyahu termed the meeting “one of the best meetings I’ve had with him,” and insisted that Obama neither mentioned Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion nor brought up Netanyahu’s new Communications Director, who publicly called Obama an “anti-semite.”
Indeed, Netanyahu claimed there were no disagreements between the two nations on any matters, and that the US agreed to take unspecified measures against Iran, along with agreeing to expedite a dramatic increase in US military aid to Israel.
Netanyahu said they didn’t talk exact numbers today on the new aid package, but more about all the new things Israel wants in addition to the aid package it already gets, with reports from Israeli media outlets suggesting they envision the package to grow from the $30 billion, 10-year deal in place to around $50 billion over the next decade.
I expect my Government (USA) to make policy that reflects America's own laws and treaties we signed. Israel and America signed the Geneva convention. Israeli squatterments are in violation of the 4th Geneva convention Art 49. A state cannot transfer a civilian population onto military occupied territory.
WE also have laws against selling weapons to nations with a history of human rights violations. It disgust me that my government is failing to support American values.
Liberty and Justice for all
America for the people by the people not AIPAC the Israeli lobby.
Let's face it, Netanyahoo doesn't like negotiating with a "schwartza", it's an insult his racist supremacist society's ideology. Only money will make up for the indignity.
"One of the best I've had."
Sound like what a prostitute would say to her john.
as if getting 50 billion in welfare to oppress and brutalize your neighbor could be a "bad" meeting.
Terror nation
What exactly is "an antisemite"? One is supposed to picture a jack-booted thug, or at the very least, someone who is so far gone in retro-privilege that if a Jew is playing golf on a restricted course, as a guest of someone, he stops him mid-swing and tells him he is not wanted. The latter is something reported to me by a member of my own family (the WASP side), and it was designed to insult my husband and warn me that we would not be wanted in certain places. Fortunately, Nazis and people with a bee up their golf shorts seem to have faded into history.
So for want of someone more hate-able I have been told that Jimmy Carter and Obama make excellent stand-ins in the eternal attack on Jews, a process for which there are never any lapses. The antisemite is dead, long live the antisemite seems to be the way it is seen. Or, on another level, it is intended to throw well-meaning people off guard, much the way black power has sometimes operated. The latter is Netanyahu's game. And now he can announce he has the situation well in hand with Obama. Because he decides who is and who is not the antisemite of the moment. He is not interested so much in neo-Nazis – they are easily manipulated and controlled because they are mentally ill most of them, or just ignorant. No, the trick to is to convince people that unless they totally cave to your most strident demands, they are no better than Hitler or that country club imbecile.
Was Obama on all fours during the entire meeting?
You'd think Obama would be embarrassed but just like the rest of the scum in Washington he's completely devoid of any decency, honesty or integrity. Increasingly, these alien life forms no longer even care who sees it.