Israel Scrambles to Avoid Showdown With Obama
Israel scrambled Tuesday to sidestep President Barack Obama’s demand for a West Bank settlement freeze with a diluted counteroffer to Washington.But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s compromise—to take down some squatter camps in exchange for permission to keep building in established settlements—was quickly rejected by hard-liners in his own coalition.
The dispute underscored Netanyahu’s difficult juggling act. He’s trying to avert a crisis with the U.S. over settlements, while keeping his pro-settlement governing coalition intact and forging ahead with construction, such as the rows of apartment blocks going up in this rapidly expanding Israeli city in the West Bank.
However, Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have spoken in recent days about halting all settlement activity without exception, suggesting Netanyahu may have little room to bargain.
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The situation developing in Israel because of Obama and Clinton’s ultimatums are a very sad and extremely dangerous game of ‘chicken’. Netanyahu will not blink - he is not a man who will be bullied by the young deceitful US president. Bibi is a wise and seasoned politician an warrior who knows the perils that face his nation’s very existence -which include the apostate US and it’s President.
It should not surprise anyone that Obama’s has met with leaders of terrorist States and scheduled a speech, of a magnitude that by his own staff’s description will ‘rock the world’, two weeks from now somewhere near Cairo. Personally I can’t wait to hear what the silver tongued lying POTUS will say in this coming speech.
Come quickly Lord Jesus!!
JamieT
29 May 09 at 11:33 am