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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:26 AM
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Netanyahu convinced Obama seeks clash with Israel to appease Arabs
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that U.S. President Barack Obama wants a confrontation with Israel, based on Obama's speech in Cairo last week, Netanyahu's confidants say.

In Netanyahu's opinion, the Americans believe an open controversy with Israel would serve the Obama administration's main objective of improving U.S. relations with the Arab world, the aides say.

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who visited Washington last week, says the Obama administration has no personal problem with Netanyahu and that the Americans do not not seek to undermine the Israeli coalition and topple the government.

Barak says Obama's positions are guided by strategic considerations - he has undertaken to withdraw from Iraq and is striving to end the war in Afghanistan and needs the moderate Arab states' support. This, rather than "political persecution," is behind the administration's attitude toward Israel, he says.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091428.html


More indications that Obama's settlements statements are less about actually influencing Israeli policy and more about improving U.S. relations with Arab governments alienated by Bush by publicly distancing himself from Israel.
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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:29 AM
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1. More like
Netanyahu thinks just like Dick Cheney. Settlements are a land grab and nothing else.
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galvatron Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 01:40 AM
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7. Netanyahu will do everything in his power to undermine the Obama administration
Netanyahu will do everything inb his power to undermine the Obama administration
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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 01:50 AM
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8. Welcome to DU!
With that kind of nonsense you should feel right at home in this political mosh-pit!:evilgrin:
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:30 AM
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2. More Bibi bullshit! Obama wants peace, and we must support him!
Bibi prefers an AWOL President like Bush to be in office, or one of the many of Bush's predecessors that gave a wink-and-a-nod to settlement expansion on West Bank while keeping a public posture of opposition.
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:33 AM
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3. Hmmm....let's see who can rally more world support to their cause. nt
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:36 AM
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4. "more indications"?
spin from Netanhayhu doesn't indicate squat to me.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 12:50 AM
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5. I don't believe nety thinks that,
just part of his line, to save face at home?
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 01:09 AM
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6. Typical conservative tactic--set up straq man (situation) making
yourself the victim and your opposition the bad guy.

Playing to American Audience as well as home audience.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 02:45 AM
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9. Political persecution. Good one.
It's time someone called Israel out. When are the funds going to be cut?
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 03:25 AM
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10. Some spin there
Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 03:28 AM by azurnoir
Its America seeking a clash with Israel ah thanks for setting us straight, but Israel is free to seek other allies if it feels America has become too friendly with Arabs, who know maybe China will back them up.
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IDFbunny Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 08:16 PM
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13. China needs oil
We always knew that someday Israel will have to go it alone.
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-10-09 08:30 PM
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14. I know about China
Edited on Wed Jun-10-09 08:30 PM by azurnoir
in fact China and Iran signed one of the biggest oil deals in history a while back, my comment was facetious
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sabbat hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 01:07 PM
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17. We did
or rather Israel did?
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 05:26 AM
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11. Netanyahu is playing to factions in his coalition, I suspect.
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Psychic Consortium Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-09-09 06:48 AM
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12. Bibi's power is gone and he knows it. There will be peace. nt
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Donald Ian Rankin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:22 PM
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15. I'm afraid I think you're wrong on both counts.
Bibi and the hard right are very much in control in Israel, and it will not be possible to force them to make peace.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 12:50 PM
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16. I think he's right on the first count; don't know about the second
Bibi's coalition is very fragile, and it's anyone's guess whether he'll be in charge in a year's time.

As regards forcing them to make peace - it's going to be difficult to persuade the leadership on either side to do so at present, but I think that the power America's purse-strings may succeed here. Yes, you could say it's a form of bribery, or even of de facto colonialism; but if it works for peace, it's worth it!
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TimesSquareCowboy Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 02:47 PM
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18. "More indications"? It's someone's opinion. That's not an 'indication' of anything.
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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 03:11 PM
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19. That's your opinion. Mine is that it looks like part of an emerging pattern.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x277883#277912
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