Obama: Israel Doesn’t Know What’s Best for Israel

Awr Hawkins Breitbart.com Big Peace 16 Jan 2013

When Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel would proceed with plans for West Bank settlements following the November U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood, Obama reportedly responded: “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.”

Reporters near Obama at that time said he was not angry with […]

Report: Obama orders U.S. intelligence to increase surveillance of Israel

Geostrategy-Direct.com via World Tribune 7/8/2012

The U.S. intelligence community has intensified surveillance of Israel’s military.

Western diplomatic sources said President Barack Obama has ordered intensified U.S. intelligence on Israel’s military and government.

They said Obama wanted to ensure that his administration could collect information that would indicate an Israeli plan to strike either Iran or […]

U.S. ambassador vetoes UN resolution on Israeli settlements — then scolds Israel

Allahpundit HotAir.com 2/18/2011

Remember, Obama actually offered to sign onto this if the Palestinian Authority agreed to downgrade the measure from a formal resolution to a nonbinding “statement.” In the fine quasi-national tradition of never failing to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, Mahmoud Abbas refused. So the Security Council took up the resolution […]

In sharp reversal, US agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council

Colum Lynch Turtle Bay 2/16/2011

The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.

But […]

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