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The Republicans are in power right now and Israel's prime minister "Bib" Netanyahu could not be more ... not happy, but - let's say - he's more vulgar, arrogant and a hoodlum thug than usual.
Most foreign leaders who not play partisan politics with a nation for their own benefit. They would not go over the president of the United States and instead seek, as a foreign leader no less, to rally support on his behalf in the legislative body against the sitting president all in the name of a foreign leader. It is an incredibly impertinent move worthy only of a vandal. But that is “Bibi”. And this is a man who believes that his allies in the U.S. (i.e. Israel lobby) will provide him with cover to treat the United States as his floor mat. This is a man once recorded on Israeli television as saying: “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in their way.”
His arrogance is such that after his first meeting with President Clinton in 1996, the U.S. president stated to his aides afterwords in regards to ‘Bibi’: “Who the f*** does he think he is? Who’s the f***ing superpower here?” And “Bibi” demonstrated contempt for Clinton.
During the Clinton trials when the president was politically weakened and at the same time applying strong pressure on Netanyahu to withdrew from the West Bank. “Bibi” instead visited Washington, went over Clinton and made his first appearance as a Republican rally and sought to use the GOP to block Clinton.
Netanyahu now feels this same smugness, relying on the Israel lobby, toward Obama:
Mr. Netanyahu was in New York, meeting business people, midway through a visit to the United States that included a speech to a Jewish group in New Orleans on Monday, in which he called on Washington to be more aggressive in threatening Iran with a military strike if it did not give up its nuclear program.
Analysts said Mr. Netanyahu’s unyielding tone — a palpable contrast to his chagrined reaction after a similar housing dispute during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — testified to the altered political environment in the United States. The stinging Democratic defeat in the midterm elections, the analysts said, had emboldened Mr. Netanyahu to push back harder against the administration.
“He is dealing with a president who is politically weakened,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel. “A lot of his friends in Washington are Republicans. He feels more comfortable with them, so he just feels that he’s got a freer hand here.”
And Republicans are eager to help:
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during a meeting in New York that the new GOP majority in the House will "serve as a check" on the Obama administration, a statement unusual for its blunt disagreement with U.S. policy delivered directly to a foreign leader.
Ron Kampeas from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news agency found Cantor's comments extremely surprising, writing, "I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president. Certainly, in statements on one specific issue or another -- building in Jerusalem, or somesuch -- lawmakers have taken the sides of other nations. But to have-a-face to face and say, in general, we will take your side against the White House -- that sounds to me extraordinary."
In 2007 National Review op-ed, Cantor wrote, "Presenting Assad with 'a new Democratic alternative' -- code for making President Bush look feckless -- Mrs. Pelosi usurped the executive branch's time-honored foreign-policy authority.
But, apparently, treason is okay when it comes to Israel.
Fortunately, some one in America is noticing. The New York Times:
[He is] counting on his newly empowered Republican allies on Capitol Hill to back him up, no matter what he does. Since last week’s American elections, Mr. Netanyahu’s government has published plans for 1,000 new housing units.
Yes, Virginia, there is an Israel lobby. And it only fuels resentment toward Israel and will rue its arrogance in the end. No one has done more to expedite the end of Israel than the state itself and its American lobby.
