Right-wing extremist Netanyahu "warns" Obama

[marmar]

Netanyahu Warns Obama on Talks as He Challenges Livni (Update2)
By Jonathan Ferziger and Hans Nichols


Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Even before Benjamin Netanyahu finds out whether he will be Israel’s next prime minister, he is sending a message to President Barack Obama that he won’t be pushed around.

Netanyahu, the Likud party candidate who narrowly leads Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ahead of elections tomorrow, last week took reporters to Arab parts of Jerusalem, where he helped establish Jewish footholds when he was previously prime minister. No pressure, he said, would make him cede those neighborhoods “to our enemies.”

Just as he confounded former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, Netanyahu probably will resist if Obama pushes too hard to extract Israeli concessions for peace in the Middle East.

“He’s extremely effective politically, unbelievably smart and relentlessly suspicious when it comes to the Arabs and the Americans,” says former U.S. negotiator Aaron David Miller, author of “The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.”

Livni, leading the ruling Kadima party, has campaigned on the need to continue peace talks and compromise with the Palestinians. She would likely have a more harmonious relationship with Obama -- if she were able to cobble together enough support to form a governing coalition consistent with her views. That isn’t certain, given the decline in polls of the Labor Party, Kadima’s coalition partner, which advocates Palestinian statehood. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeKTFmR61kD0&refer=home

[bluestateguy]

1. Is there a way Obama can have the CIA rig the Israeli election?

It's not like they haven't done it before in the Third World.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. Yes, Benjamin, we know you're a warmongering agent of doom.

Enough already.

[roguevalley]

13. he really is something, this one.

[lurky]

3. "OK, no more guns for you."

Likud is so used to getting their way in Washington, they seem to forget that we are propping them up with arms and aid money.

[truebrit71]

4. Fine. Halt the $$$. Immediately. Then we'll see if that war-mongering fascist changes his tune...

...

[RT Atlanta]

8. Agreed 100%

turnoff the damn $ spigot and give them 6 months to re-consider. Lord knows we could use the $ here anyhow.

[Blue_Tires]

12. +1

[tularetom]

5. WTF is he gonna do - attack us with our own jets

Fuck this loudmouth - Obama needs to set him straight right from the git go.

[Every Man A King]

17. Maybe we should take him out first n/t

[On the Road]

6. Maybe Obama Will Stimulate Him to Go Off the Deep End

and start changing American attitudes.

[ensho]

7. kick

nt

[izzybeans]

9. He sounds like a Jim Crowe era bigot.

If I were Obama, I'd tell him I don't negotiate with racist assholes.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. "Jim Crow" is probably giving him the benefit of the doubt. nt

[Chulanowa]

11. This article reeks of BS...

"Just as he confounded former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s..."

Clinton's utter unwillingness to take a stand on the fucking issue is what confounded Bill Clinton. He dragged Arafat and Rabin to the table, smiles for the Camera, and then let them talk as if they were equal powers. He did the same thing after Bibi had Rabin killed took leadership in Israel, but at least that time Arafat had used his daily lemon and could figure out he was being sold bullshit.

“He’s extremely effective politically"

Not really. My understanding is that most Israelis are terrified of the lunatic. However, every Israeli leader is "extremely effective politically" when it comes to dealing with America. Our leaders pretty much ask politely for Israel to rest its testicles upon their forehead.

[Are_grits_groceries]

14. Why are all these people warning Obama??

Lindsey Graham was whining last week. They can STFU.

[malaise]

15. Really now

One the military and financial aid dries up, he'll learn a thing or two.

[Downtown Hound]

16. Now, why can't we say this to him?

Israel pushes us around a lot more than we push them. Can't we just warn him that if he acts up too much, bye bye aid?

[Warren DeMontague]

18. We'll be much better off if Bibi doesn't win this one.

No doubt.

[Incitatus]

19. Yeah, spit in the face of those who give you BILLIONS in arms.

see how well that works out

[Raineyb]

20. Cut the motherfucker off

We don't need to be funding their murderous regime anyway.

Regards

[DCKit]

21. I'm beginning to believe that moderate Israelies aren't allowed to vote.

Or is it that no moderates will run?

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

22. Netanyahu has always been, and will always be,

a fascist asshat of the first order. What a contemptible little shit.

[eridani]

23. Wish Obama would warn him that all military aid stops if he doesn't cooperate n/t