Ambassador Tries to Bridge Gap With U.S., but on Israel’s Terms

[Jefferson23]

Double down Dermer


Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, in Congress after the Israeli premier’s address. Credit Jonathan Ernst/Reuters


March 25, 2015

WASHINGTON — Over an elegant dinner at his official residence Monday night, Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, tried to reassure a group of congressional Democrats that the dramatic public break between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was nothing more than a passing disagreement.

Every American president since Harry S. Truman has had differences with Israel, Mr. Dermer told the group, and they always work themselves out.

Representative Steve Israel, Democrat of New York, who initiated and organized the dinner, said, “What people need to do right now is read a little bit of history, take a deep breath and relax, because every administration has had moments of tension with Israel, and it’s always forgotten.”


The gathering was part of a bid by Mr. Dermer, 43, the American-born former Republican operative who is so close to Mr. Netanyahu that he is often referred to as “Bibi’s brain,” to smooth tensions that have flared up in recent weeks between the United States and Israel. But an apology tour it is not. If anything, Mr. Dermer is intensifying his efforts to thwart the nuclear deal with Iran that Mr. Obama is working hard to close within days.

in full: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/us/israel-ron-dermer-ambassador-iran-nuclear-deal.html?_r=0

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1. Go back and have a schvitz with Naior Gilon, Mossad Chief of Station.

Google Gilon and OSP-AIPAC. He'll tell you about espionage in America when there were still potential penalties attached. Today, just politics as usual.

[oberliner]

3. Why do you use a Yiddish slang term here?

Of all the words you could've chosen...

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6. What, you think I don't what a schvitz is?

It's a conference room with hard seats and broken AC. Kching.

[calimary]

2. Isn't this the guy who conceived of the idea to stick a knife in the President's back and

sneak around the State Department's collective back to go play footsie deliberately with this President's opposition, so netanyahu could showboat before Congress and get some nice campaign commercial footage?

Wonder if all the other presidents he cites had sneaky shit like this pulled on them, too?

This is how he treats his country's best friend? And he thinks we're all just gonna forget that?

[Jefferson23]

4. As you can see from the OP, Dermer is not nearly done yet and yes, he is that guy.

How many at the dinner with Dermer brought this to his attention, I wonder:

Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad

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5. They're counting on us forgetting. That lets them up the ante

Next time, they'll just launch the missiles themselves. If we don't like it, they'll launch ours too.

See how easy it is to deal with the schtumies in America?

[BillZBubb]

7. Yep, the old "Nothing to see here, move along" ploy.

Hopefully, in the next few weeks, the president will set him straight. And I certainly hope Steve Israel is wrong. This cannot be forgotten.

[geek tragedy]

8. The "stab Obama in the back caucus" within the Democratic

party wasted no time in cozying up to this weasel.

Steve Israel would have zero problems supporting apartheid if Dermer and AIPAC told him to--he's basically Likud. And there are too many like him.

He's already jonesing for a war with Iran.

And Steve Israel hasn't shied from criticizing leaders of his own party for statements on Israel's settlement policies.

http://www.israelforcongress.com/issues

[Jefferson23]

9. Yep...not much more I can add. n/t