Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not even making an attempt to respect American President Obama and his administration.
The New York Daily News reported that Sens. Dick Durbin, D‑Ill., and Dianne Feinstein, D‑Calif., on Monday invited Netanyahu to meet in a closed-door session with Democrats during his visit. He declined the invitation on Tuesday and expressed regret about the politically fraught tone of his trip.
“I regret that the invitation to address the special joint session of Congress has been perceived by some to be political or partisan,” Netanyahu wrote. “I can assure you that my sole intention in accepting it was to voice Israel’s grave concerns about a potential nuclear agreement with Iran that could threaten the survival of my country.”
Who are the “some” of whom Netanyahu speak is it the President? The President has said he will not meet with Netanyahu because it would be a break with tradition of the white house not to meet with foreign leaders who are engaged in election campaigning. Netanyahu faces the Israeli electorate in just a couple of weeks from his scheduled March 3rd address.
Frankly President Obama should stop beating around the bush and tell the world he refuses to meet with the disrespectful Republican Senator from Israel because he does not like him. Netanyahu all but endorsed Mitt Romney for President during the last Presidential elections . Who is Netanyahu fooling , he does not like Obama and Obama does not like him .
The report went on to say more than a half dozen House and Senate Democrats have said they will skip the speech, calling it an affront to President Barack Obama and the administration as they engage in high-level negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Vice President Joe Biden will be traveling and has no plans to attend the speech.
Well there you have it, half a dozen house and senate democrats? What of the rest? Not only is this address a deeply offensive breach of protocol, it is an affront to the Nation’s first black president. Democrats who make the decision to sit through this affront will signal that they join republicans in giving aid and comfort to the insolent Netanyahu over a sitting American president who just happens to be black.
Israel is an apartheid state which has precious little respect for black people.
Netanyahu and his administration has led a vicious campaign against Ethiopian Jews and and other Africans who venture into the state of Israel. Netanyahu and many in his Government and Country labels blacks who venture into Apartheid Israel “Infiltrators”. They call them cancers on Israeli society.
Many African Jews,(real decendants of biblical jews) are harassed and rounded up like cattle and herded into a massive prison in the Negev desert.
Why would a republican supporting Netanyahu respect our president, when he sees Africans in Israel as infiltrators?
The travesty of the blind support some have for the Apartheid state of Israel, including some religious leaders in the black community, is their ignorance to the realities of the Biblical Israel and this charlatan Apartheid state.
The tragedy is that even though they hate blacks , they benefit from black people’s money the American Government takes in taxes and gives to them to the tune of Billions of dollars annually.
Durbin said in a statement that he regretted that Netanyahu could not meet with the Democrats.
“We offered the Prime Minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker (John) Boehner with a private meeting with Democrats who are committed to keeping the bipartisan support of Israel strong,” Durbin said. “His refusal to meet is disappointing to those of us who have stood by Israel for decades.
Well there you have it, Netanyahu is not a diplomat, he is not a man who respects protocols. He is a war-mongering hawk who will not rest until America is engaged in a war with Iran over nuclear weapons even as Israel posseses stockpiles of nuclear weapons of it’s own.
What makes Israel exempt from the same rules other countries are subject to?
Who does Netanyahu think he is that President Obama should bow to his demands for war, failing which he will protest the President’s policies using the congress as a political platform?
This is the kind of raw disrespect that we have come to expect from republicans in the congress.
Hiding our heads in the sand does not negate the fact that congressional republicans want war with Iran. Netanyahu also want war with Iran.
This president’s policy of peace through negotiations and mutual respect, does not line up with the perpetual war-mongering of republicans and Netanyahu.
This is the reason the weak John Boehner invited Netanyahu to speak .
Never before have we seen such egregious display of disrespect to presidential leadership. We will wait to see which democrat sit and listen to Netanyahu’s bull.