“Now, 63 years later, the Palestinians come to us and they say to Israel ‘accept the grandchildren, the great-grandchildren of these refugees thereby wiping out Israel’s future as a Jewish state. It’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen. And I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians it’s not going to happen.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
to President Barack Obama
20 May 2011
Jed Babbin
The American Spectator
5/23/2011
Barry’s Bullying Failed with Bibi
Our community organizer in chief tried his favorite strategy — bullying — on the Israeli Prime Minister last week, and discovered to his evident surprise that veterans of the special operations community are not among those who can be intimidated…
…Obama likes to bully people while they’re sitting captive in his audience and can’t respond. In the 2010 State of the Union speech, Barry badgered the six Supreme Court justices sitting before him, saying that the Citizens United decision would open the floodgates to foreign corporations’ influencing American elections. Five sat there in shock, though Justice Alito visibly mouthed the words “not true” in response to Obama’s lie. In his April 13 budget speech, with Republican Paul Ryan in the audience, Obama spun a web worthy of Ted Kennedy, accusing Ryan of authoring a budget that would deprive 50 million Americans of health insurance, keep kids from being educated and basically turn our nation into some dog-eat-dog scrapyard in which children and poor people would die of neglect. Ryan, too much the gentleman, didn’t even walk out.
Obama underestimated Netanyahu. The community organizer wasn’t prepared, by education or experience, to properly measure his latest adversary.
Netanyahu is, at his core, a special operations warrior. He is a veteran of the elite Sayeret Matkal, an Israeli army unit much like our Delta Force…
…Though Obama failed to bully Netanyahu, one fact is now established: Israel is alone. Obama’s speech gives support to the Europeans’ anti-Israeli policies. Israel cannot rely on American support even in time of dire need as long as Obama is president.
Tomorrow, Netanyahu will speak before a joint session of Congress. His speech will likely repeat what he told Obama face-to-face on Friday, and for that he will receive thunderous applause and little else…
This article is extremely informative and may be read in its entirety at The American Spectator.
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