Netanyahu snub takes relations with White House to a new low / WTF boehner?

[spanone]

Jerusalem (CNN)President Barack Obama and U.S. officials were completely blindsided by the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will come to Washington to address a joint session of Congress this spring -- a move that's rattled the White House and diplomatic officials.

The announcement from House Speaker John Boehner's office this week came after several high-level interactions between U.S. and Israeli officials, including a phone call between the President and Netanyahu and a multi-hour meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, a senior administration official told CNN.

Netanyahu's snub has once again soured relations between the two world leaders, but U.S. officials insist the tensions won't affect U.S. support for Israel.

The Boehner announcement came just over a week after Obama spoke over the phone with Netanyahu and urged him not to lobby in favor of new Iran sanctions, "asking for some space," a senior administration official said. But the hawkish Israeli prime minister has a track record of supporting tougher sanctions against Iran and he's expected to make that case when he addresses Congress in March.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/politics/netanyahu-obama-snub-sours-relations/index.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Asshats at CNN found a way to distort the facts to cast Bibi as the victim? No one is buying it.

Boehner, oh, Boehner, do you really think the compliant bought and paid for American media can erase history again for the GOP and you when it was just this week you and Bibi snubbed the American people?

And that pesky foreign media is at it again reminding everyone of how insane the GOP have become.

The whole world is frightened by the GOP.

[spanone]

2. Newsweek: Why Netanyahu and Boehner Are Tag-Teaming Obama

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President Barack Obama may have reached a George H.W. Bush moment in his long-simmering confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear program. And Netanyahu may be facing his own moment of truth.

With the White House’s unprecedented announcement that Obama will not meet with Netanyahu when the Israeli leader comes to Washington to deliver a speech before a joint meeting of Congress in March, the famously strained relations between the two men have reached an all-time low. The last time relations grew this toxic was back in 1991, when Yitzhak Shamir, then Israel’s right-wing leader, wanted $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees so Israel could absorb the large numbers of Jewish immigrants arriving from the former Soviet Union.

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For Obama, the issue is Netanyahu’s readiness to join the new Republican majority on Capitol Hill in its efforts to undercut negotiations toward a nuclear deal with Iran, which the president sees as a potential foreign policy legacy. The centerpiece of the Republican push is a bill authored by Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois and Democrat Robert Menendez of New Jersey that would slap new sanctions on Iran if current negotiations for a nuclear deal fail to reach an agreement by June 30. In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Obama threatened to veto the bill, saying it would “all but guarantee that diplomacy fails,” increasing the likelihood of another Middle East war.

Republican leaders upped the ante by inviting Netanyahu to appear before Congress, where he’s expected to make a full-throated argument for adopting a tougher line against Iran to extract more concessions from Tehran in the nuclear talks. In other words, Netanyahu will be urging lawmakers to vote in favor of the Kirk-Menendez bill in such numbers that they will command a veto-proof majority. Thursday’s White House announcement that Obama will not meet with Netanyahu while he’s in town is the first time in the history of U.S.-Israeli relations that the doors to the White House have been closed to a visiting Israeli prime minister.

http://www.newsweek.com/why-netanyahu-and-boehner-are-tag-teaming-obama-301480

[Cha]

3. My money is on Obama over those two vicious blood thirsty clowns.

[spanone]

5. they have zero respect for this President. like i've never seen before.

[Cha]

6. Over playing their fricking hands they are, spanone.. Blowback!

[Fred Sanders]

12. Another article trying to downplay the massive mistake of B&B, covering who started it. The fascists

have most of the media covered, the social media is the rogue element.

[Cha]

4. Thanks for this, spanone..

[spanone]

7. thanks!

[Cha]

8. KICK!

[libodem]

9. Oh god, not the Apocalypse

Those Christian's courting the 2nd coming think they have to kiss the ring of the, Nation State of Israel, not to be left behind.

It's insane bullshit and idiots like Ted Cruz preach this as gospel. I'm totally sure Mitt thinks along the same lines. We are being manipulated by perversions of so called, Biblical Prophesies, from that tacked on book of guilt inducing, threats, and promises: Revelations.

Fucking utter horseshit. I'm sick of religion in politics. It's mentally challenged. We need a separation of church and state. Everywhere.

Whatever happened to the notion of a secular government


I'm really to start taxing Churches if they don't back out of political policy.

I'M SICK OF IT.

[napkinz]

10. Netanyahu and Boehner

[malaise]

11. Remember the last laugh on this one will be Obamas

Boehner is to blame here - this is one of the most egregious violations of separation of powers to date.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. I think gerrymandering has...

given the big boner a pair of overinflated balls!