Leaders’ chat leak a ‘severe violation of a private discussion’ (Obama and Netanyahu)

[azurnoir]

According to BBC reporter Paul Danahar, the State Department says that if President Barack Obama’s conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indeed leaked to Israel’s Channel 1, it would constitute a “severe violation of a private discussion.”


Hebrew transcript of Obama and Netanyahu’s phone call

The following is an English translation of the Hebrew account of the talk given in the report:

Barack Obama: I demand that Israel agrees to an immediate, unilateral ceasefire and halt all offensive activities, in particular airstrikes.

Benjamin Netanyahu: And what will Israel receive in exchange for a ceasefire?

BO: I believe that Hamas will cease its rocket fire — silence will be met with silence.

BN: Hamas broke all five previous ceasefires. It’s a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

BO: I repeat and expect Israel to stop all its military activities unilaterally. The pictures of destruction in Gaza distance the world from Israel’s position.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/day-22-five-soldiers-killed-four-of-them-in-mortar-attack-idf-bombards-gaza/#ixzz38sxqdOZe


and it gets 'better' from there........

can anyone say imitation crab meat

[geek tragedy]

1. Our 'friends' the Israelis. nt

[King_David]

2. Tweet

The White House’s National Security Council tweets that the Channel 1 transcript of a phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bogus.

[bemildred]

3. Sounds like bullshit to me.

Mainly because it reeks of Settler english, and Obama does not speak Settler english.

E.g.: "I demand that Israel agrees to an immediate, unilateral ceasefire and halt all offensive activities, in particular airstrikes."

This is not how Obama talks to allies.

[King_David]

4. Agreed

It's not how Obama talks to anyone.

[bemildred]

5. +1.

I mean, I'm sure he could, but he wouldn't.