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The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname.
This comment is representative of the gloves-off manner in which American and Israeli officials now talk about each other behind closed doors, and is yet another sign that relations between the Obama and Netanyahu governments have moved toward a full-blown crisis. The relationship between these two administrations— dual guarantors of the putatively “unbreakable” bond between the U.S. and Israel—is now the worst it’s ever been, and it stands to get significantly worse after the November midterm elections. By next year, the Obama administration may actually withdraw diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, but even before that, both sides are expecting a showdown over Iran, should an agreement be reached about the future of its nuclear program.
The fault for this breakdown in relations can be assigned in good part to the junior partner in the relationship, Netanyahu, and in particular, to the behavior of his cabinet. Netanyahu has told several people I’ve spoken to in recent days that he has “written off” the Obama administration, and plans to speak directly to Congress and to the American people should an Iran nuclear deal be reached. For their part, Obama administration officials express, in the words of one official, a “red-hot anger” at Netanyahu for pursuing settlement policies on the West Bank, and building policies in Jerusalem, that they believe have fatally undermined Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace process.
Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and “Aspergery.” (These are verbatim descriptions; I keep a running list.) But I had not previously heard Netanyahu described as a “chickenshit.” I thought I appreciated the implication of this description, but it turns out I didn’t have a full understanding. From time to time, current and former administration officials have described Netanyahu as a national leader who acts as though he is mayor of Jerusalem, which is to say, a no-vision small-timer who worries mainly about pleasing the hardest core of his political constituency. (President Obama, in interviews with me, has alluded to Netanyahu’s lack of political courage.) […]
I ran this notion by another senior official who deals with the Israel file regularly. This official agreed that Netanyahu is a “chickenshit” on matters related to the comatose peace process, but added that he’s also a “coward” on the issue of Iran’s nuclear threat. The official said the Obama administration no longer believes that Netanyahu would launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to keep the regime in Tehran from building an atomic arsenal. “It’s too late for him to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. It was a combination of our pressure and his own unwillingness to do anything dramatic. Now it’s too late.”
>Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and “Aspergery.” (These are verbatim descriptions; I keep a running list.) But I had not previously heard Netanyahu described as a “chickenshit.”<
it be proggtarded projection
“[P]rojection”
Seconded.
– Yeah, Bibi won’t kiss the little kings Black ass, so he’s a chickenshit.
– Obama can so go fuck himself.
What did you expect from a ‘man’ who bowed to King Saud?
#Waterboy
An account and a visual.
– The morality hating Left slides further down into its moral-less cesspool. Now murder is a virtue to them, which we always knew they’d say eventually and they did. Even the Lefty media host threw up a little in the back of her mouth.
Water is wet, fire burns and Obama Administration hates Israel and Jews
FTFY, Darleen.
I ran this notion by another senior official who deals with the Israel file regularly. This official agreed that Netanyahu is a “chickenshit” on matters related to the comatose peace process, but added that he’s also a “coward” on the issue of Iran’s nuclear threat. The official said the Obama administration no longer believes that Netanyahu would launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to keep the regime in Tehran from building an atomic arsenal. “It’s too late for him to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. It was a combination of our pressure and his own unwillingness to do anything dramatic. Now it’s too late.”
So look at the proposition here.
The ClownCatastrophe “Official” (it’s all Barry his own-self, isn’t it, just concealed behind anonymity?) derides Netanyahu as a coward for demonstrating the prudence not to defy the very condition Israel’sGreatestAlly the ClownCatastrophe places upon him?
But the ClownCatastrophe surely credits himself with a superlative courage to have embarked on his insane rapprochement with the Mullahs in 2009 (a rapprochement as yet incomplete, since the Mullahs — naturally enough to their triumphalist Islam — resist ClownDisaster’s blandishments and proceed apace to develop their nuclear capacity, having calculated that ClownDisaster will fold once the chips are down).
“Anything dramatic”
Israel is a very small country. So look again at the second portion of that sentence and contemplate the meaning of “anything dramatic”, bearing in mind that had Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear weapons development installations while certain she would be abandoned by the United States in the immediate aftermath, the very moment when she would be most under attack herself . . . just think of the arrogance of the ClownDisaster’s statement “anything dramatic” as it applies to the possibility of hundreds of thousands of dead Israelis, to say nothing of the dead on the other side of the war.
*** Some have said the official should be fired because of the damage he or she has caused. But Psaki seemed to reject this idea when asked about it. ***
Oh come now, Psaki knows enough to know the Administration can’t fire the Chief Executive. She also knows that ClownDisaster can’t be impeached because to do so would be racist, and no-one today can tolerate to be named or thought of as racist. Hell, not even the ClownDisaster himself can tolerate to be known truthfully as a racist. So, whaddaya gonna do?
I just want to focus your attention on this:
The ratbastard sonofabitch quoted there says that like it’s a good thing. God almighty.
Or, “what sdferr said”
[shuffles off sheepishly]
Oh but hey, dis kai tris t’agatha. And we have that on Plato’s authority, so could hardly ask for better company.
Of course, the really depressing thing is the way everybody, even people who should know better, uses chicken shit as a synonym for coward.
– So lets review. Bumblefuck decides to follow the age-old non-workable policy of all negotiations all the time, hoping Israel/Bibi will panic and bomb the crap out of Iran, thereby doing Bumblefucks bidding that he can’t even think of doing himself least he lose what little support he has left from any but the most diehard lying pieces of shit Progs, so jug ears is pissed and thinks that makes Bibi a chickenshit.
– If I accept that premise what does that make dickhead from the git-go?
– Worst president in the history of the Republic doesn’t do his little kinglyness’es level of feckless justice.
hoping Israel/Bibi will panic and bomb the crap out of Iran
This was never so. Otherwise, why would the US have constantly exposed with a view to thwarting Israeli planning? ClownDisaster worked diligently to prevent any possibility Israel would act to strike Iran. Always. Still does.
– Based on all the other evidence that dickhead is a little tyrant/war monger in hiding I don’t agree sdferr. Just like the Bin Laden and Drone mess, I think that regardless of how much he postures he would be only too happy for Israel to do what he politically cannot, thereby solving the problem for him. Of course he would die before admitting it, thereby committing political suicide. Remember this was decided back when he was still running for a second term, so a lot has changed and now its safe to bitch,
ClownDisaster’s grand strategic vision was “decided” prior to his winning election and hasn’t changed one iota since. He put it to work in the summer of ’09, showing everyone who cared to look just whose side he was on in the confrontation between liberty and Islamic Totalitarianism. Wake up and smell the coffee.
So, the Obama administration is playing to the anti-Semites of the DNC. What a surprise.
I think accepting that premise makes you an idiot. Based, as it is, on the assumption that Obama is a 3 or 4 dimensional chess grandmaster who wants the Isrealis to do his dirty work for him, when it’s much more straightforward to assume that what he really wants is for the Iranians to do his dirty work for him.
I don’t know why y’all are being so hard on little Barry, can’t the dude just eat his waffles?
Valarie Jarret is the Iranian in the wood shed.
Mahmoud Abbas (as well as a gajillion other jihadis no doubt) takes the hint, says: “It’s on!”
This is the peace partner beloved by the ClownDisasterites.
So to take notice of the *wisdom* of the ClownDisaster’s “chickenshit” attack on PM Netanyahu, let’s survey the field in order to put a couple of things together today. Mark Levin yesterday suggested the aim of the “chickenshit” attack was to weaken Netanyahu politically in Israel by galvanizing the Israeli left, to provide ammunition to the Israeli left to seek Netanyahu’s ouster on account of a fear of abandonment by the US.
Today Haaretz publishes a cartoon depicting PM Netanyahu in the cockpit of a jet-liner labeled “Israel” flying toward a World Trade Center Tower. Netanyahu the al-Qaedaman. Israel the jihadi-nation. (Brilliant follow-up, Haaretz! And how’s that working out for ya?)
But seriously, ClownDisaster thinks the Israelis are going to favor him and his imbecilic belief in the “peaceful” intentions of the ‘Palestinian’ Arabs over their own just concluded experience of daily bombardment by Arab’s rockets? And abandon Netanyahu because he’s too hard on the poor Arabs? Hilarious!
The ClownCatastrophe is so wise, he evidently thinks the Jews of Israel have a death-wish as strong as the death-wish he, PresIVotePresentAndWonPenPhone holds for the Republic in which he holds office. HopeAndChange toils eternal in the fantastic world of the political left. And from HopeAndChange, wisdom will unfold.
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