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Monday, September 24, 2012 |
Weekly Commentary: Obama terms Israeli concerns noise – broad ramifications |
Weekly Commentary: Obama terms Israeli concerns noise – broad ramifications Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 24 September 2012 A reminder: #1. When any president of the United States speaks for the record on matters #2. We are in the middle of an American presidential campaign. So #1 is So here we have President Obama’s pre-Yom Kippur remark in a Sixty Minutes STEVE KROFT: “You don’t feel any pressure from Prime Minister Netanyahu in OBAMA: “When it comes to our national security decisions — any pressure that That’s right. PM Netanyahu’s “red line/deadline” campaign is “noise”. This days after Fereydoun Abbasi, the head of Iran's nuclear energy agency, OK. So why did President Obama decide to use the unprecedented “noise” term? Let’s remember – many hours were spent coming up with the line. Yes. It seemed like a great way to kick Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin But this wasn’t an off the cuff remark. Hours were spent thinking about it. And that’s the problem. Because Binyamin Netanyahu isn’t some nudnik columnist whose remarks can be Netanyahu is the prime minister of the sovereign State of Israel. If Israel had only an iota of its relationship with the United States, it President Obama sent a poisonously dangerous message to the world about his And for friends of Israel in the United States, this was a preview of what Again: Nobody put a gun to Mr. Obama’s head and forced him to agree to run And even odder: it’s hard to come up with the demographic that the “noise” So besides being a message to friends of Israel in general, the “noise” Will American Jews manage to process this before they go behind the curtain Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis) |
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