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Thursday, March 19, 2015
White House threatens US-Israeli relations, no congrats
White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday that the “president” did not congratulate Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his decisive election victory–not this time, nor the time before. Earnest said, “The President at this point has not telephoned Prime Minister Netanyahu…Just as a relevant piece of recent historical context is that there have been two Israeli elections during the [this] administration. In both situations, in the aftermath of both elections, the President did not telephone Prime Minister Netanyahu until he’d already been directed by the Israeli President to begin the process of forming a coalition government.” Telephoning is not necessarily congratulating.
Earnest said that Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Netanyahu to congratulate him. The signal sent by having Kerry congratulate Netanyahu is that Netanyahu is not worthy of a US president’s attention in the matter. This coincides with reports that the “president” walked out of a meeting with Netanyahu to make him think about the error of his ways while the “president” had dinner with his wife in March 2010. While there are various accounts of this report, the “president” demonstrated his disappointment in Netanyahu by not taking a joint picture for the media during that visit. There have been many other reports of the “president” slighting Netanyahu.
Moreover, Earnest said, “There’s one other thing that I anticipated might come up that I just did want to mention as it relates to the Israeli elections. Specifically, there has been a lot of coverage in the media about some of the rhetoric that emerged yesterday that was propagated by the Likud Party to encourage turnout of their supporters that sought to, frankly, marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens. The United States and this administration is deeply concerned by divisive rhetoric that seeks to marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens. It undermines the values and democratic ideals that have been important to our democracy and an important part of what binds the United States and Israel together.”
The US “president” and his minions can claim “its just politics” when they stir riots with their hate speech and support the Black Panthers in preventing whites from voting, but when it comes to Netanyahu encouraging Israelis rather than Arabs/Muslims to vote, it threatens the ideals that “binds the United States and Israel together.” Earnest said that despite Netanyahu’s promise of no Palestinian state, the US knows such a state is in the best interest of the Israeli people–talk about threatening democratic ideals. Of this Administration, it seems Isaiah 59:7 applies: “Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood, their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.”
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
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