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Titolo: 'Political coward' Binyamin Netanyahu sees rift with Barack Obama widen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/20/netanyahu-obama-rift-widens
 
 
'Political coward' Binyamin Netanyahu sees rift with Barack Obama widen
Israeli prime minister's aides accused American president of interfering 
in Israel's elections
 
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
The Observer, Sunday 20 January 2013
 
Already fractious relations between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama 
have been further strained in the runup to the president's inauguration 
on Monday and the Israeli prime minister's anticipated victory in 
Tuesday's election.
 
Netanyahu aides accused Obama of interfering in the Israeli election 
following publication of an article by Jeffrey Goldberg, which quoted 
the president as saying: "Israel doesn't know what its own best 
interests are." Obama, wrote Goldberg, viewed Netanyahu as a "political 
coward".
 
The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, who has voiced alarm at the rupture 
between the two leaders, was due to meet a delegation of US senators, 
led by Republican John McCain, in Jerusalem on Saturday night to discuss 
strengthening strategic relations between the two allies.
 
"We must not lose the support of the United States. What gives Israel 
bargaining power in the international arena is the support of the United 
States... Without US support, it would be very difficult for us. We 
would be like a lone tree in the desert," he told the New York Times 
last week.
 
The Goldberg article, along with Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as 
defence secretary, has been interpreted in Israel as clear signs of the 
president's exasperation with Netanyahu and possible payback for the 
latter's support of Obama's rival, Mitt Romney, in the US election in 
November. Hagel is seen as "anti-Israel" because of his questioning of 
Israeli government policy and the pro-Israel lobby in the US.
 
Goldberg, who is known to be close to the president, wrote that Israel 
risked becoming "more of a pariah" and that Obama was reluctant to 
invest fresh effort in the Middle East peace process in the face of 
Netanyahu's continued settlement expansion.
 
"On matters related to the Palestinians, the president seems to view the 
prime minister as a political coward, an essentially unchallenged leader 
who nevertheless is unwilling to lead or spend political capital to 
advance the cause of compromise," Goldberg wrote.
 
"Obama... has been consistent in his analysis of Israel's underlying 
challenge: If it doesn't disentangle itself from the lives of West Bank 
Palestinians, the world will one day decide it is behaving as an 
apartheid state." The White House did not deny the words attributed to 
the president.
 
"Barack Obama said, simply and clearly, what he thinks about Israel's 
prime minister and where he is leading Israel," wrote former Israeli 
diplomat Alon Pinkas in Yedioth Ahronoth. "These are grave, alarming 
statements, which are without precedent."
 
Netanyahu is expected to continue as prime minister following Tuesday's 
election, which is likely to see a significant strengthening of the 
hardline pro-settler faction within the Israeli parliament. He is 
thought to be keen to include at least one centrist party in the next 
coalition government, in part to appease the US administration.
 
The Israeli prime minister is expected to visit Washington in March for 
the annual meeting of the pro-Israel lobby group Aipac. Obama and 
Netanyahu did not meet during the latter's last visit to the US in 
September in what was seen as a White House snub. Obama has not visited 
Israel since taking office four years ago, although there has been 
speculation about a possible trip in the summer.
-- 
Namib
.....
- God will take care of you. Whatever you need, God will give it to you.
- I need a shave. Am I next?
(Tom Kromer)

 Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
 
Harriet Sherwood?
 
quella che a Gaza non entra alcun materiale da costruzione?
http://cifwatch.com/2012/12/28/guardian-falsely-claims-that-almost-no-construction-materials-have-entered-gaza/
 
 
quella che dimentica le dichiarazioni bellicose dei leader di Hamas?
cifwatch.com/2012/12/08/guardian-omits-tiny-detail-regarding-khaled-
 
meshaals-dream-to-liberate-palestine/
 
quella dalle nozioni di geografia -diciamo- un po' lacunose?
http://cifwatch.com/2012/12/03/harriet-sherwood-falsely-claims-israeli-construction-will-cutt-e-jerusalem-off-from-west-bank/
 
 
quella che scrive di violazioni di ordini?
http://cifwatch.com/2013/01/15/guardian-story-on-bab-al-shams-falsely-suggests-israeli-pm-violated-court-order/
 
eppero', poi, corregge
http://cifwatch.com/2013/01/17/cif-watch-post-prompts-second-correction-to-guardian-story-about-bab-al-shams/
 
 
Harriet Sherwood. LOL

 Harriet Sherwood?
 
l'ad hominem non è una confutazione, ma la dimostrazione
dell'incapacità di confutare nel merito. Grazie tante.

 si capisce che Tipzi insiste sulla pace con lo stato palestinese.
 
riuscirà il nostro eroe brillo a scrivere il nome della Livni
correttamente prima di morire? Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza.
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 Seppoi e' vero che l'Iran prepara un test nucleare,
 
Three hunters are out on safari -- an American, a Britisher and an
Israeli. They are captured by cannibals who start getting the cooking
pots ready. The cannibal chief tells the hunters the hunter they can
have one last wish.
"What's your last request?" he asks the American.
"I'd like a steak," he replies.
So the cannibals kill a zebra and serve the American his steak.
"What do you want?" the cannibal chief asks the Brit.
"I'd like a have smoke on my pipe," which they let him do.
Then the chief asks the Israeli: "What's your last wish?"
"I want you to kick my rear end."
"Be serious," says the top cannibal.
"C'mon, you promised," says the Israeli.
"Oh, all right," says the chief, who delivers the requested kick.
Whereupon, the Israeli pulls out a gun, shoots the chief and a few
other cannibals while the rest run away.
The American and Brit are furious.
"Why didn't you do that in the first place, so we wouldn't have had to
go through all this?" they demand.
Replies the Israeli: "What? Are you mad? The UN would have condemned
me as the aggressor."

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per il merito, bastano le barzellette.