So now it's happened again. Boehner invites Netanyahu to speak at congress, and the white house has gone ballistic over it. Obama says he will not meet with Netanyahu while he's here, and Kerry won't meet with him either.
Obama admin says Netanyahu will "pay a price" for defying him and speaking at congress, where he will give a speech calling for sanctions on Iran.
Obama admin says Netanyahu has "spat in their face." Do you see the drama here? It's a bunch a politics crap and it's what they did in the campaigns and so they just carry this over onto the world stage but you can't do that. You can't just trash Israel because it defies you, and constitutionally, Boehner is Speaker and can invite anyone he wants to, to come speak. White House is acting like children, even if they're opposed to Netanyahu, they're coming at it like a girl flapping her arms and screaming yelling -- not from a position of strength.
I'm not proud of my President when his administration acts this way; they did a bit of it with Poroshenko, now it's 10 times worse with Netanyahu and it's so undignified and petty.
On the issues -- I do realize it's more complicated with Iran, lately. They're actually working out to be our allies in some places and on some issues.
So okay, BUT, tack it down the middle -- don't just go all pro Iran and trash all your old allies. Not cool. Obama did the same thing about Ukraine, he let Ukraine twist in the wind for so long while he just kept going along with Putin. Now he does it with Israel, to go along with Iran.
And what's up with "he will pay a price" I mean jesus we sound like we are Iranians now, wtf, this is Israel we don't talk that way even about our enemies -- "he will pay a price."
Netanyahu ‘spat in our face,’ White House officials said to say
PM ‘will pay price’ for spat over Congress address; Obama said to have asked him to tone down pro-sanctions rhetoric; Wash. Post: Kerry’s enthusiasm for defending Israel may wane
The White House’s outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to speak before Congress in March — a move he failed to coordinate with the administration — began to seep through the diplomatic cracks on Friday, with officials telling Haaretz the Israeli leader had “spat” in President Barack Obama’s face.
“We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.
“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said.
Officials in Washington said that the “chickenshit” epithet — with which an anonymous administration official branded Netanyahu several months ago — was mild compared to the language used in the White House when news of Netanyahu’s planned speech came in.
In his address the Israeli leader is expected to speak about stalled US-led nuclear negotiations with Iran, and to urge lawmakers to slap Tehran with a new round of tougher sanctions in order to force it to comply with international demands. The Mossad intelligence service on Thursday went to the rare length of issuing a press statement to deny claims, cited by Kerry, that its chief Tamir Pardo had told visiting US politicians that he opposed further sanctions.
Haaretz reported that Obama had personally demanded that Netanyahu tone down his pro-sanctions rhetoric in a phone call between the two last week. The president has said a sanctions bill would cripple negotiations with Iranian leaders at a critical stage, and has threatened to veto such a bill should it come through.
The Washington Post reported that Netanyahu’s apparent disrespect for the US leadership was particularly offensive to Secretary of State John Kerry, who over the past month had made frenzied efforts on Israel’s behalf on the world stage — making dozens of calls to world leaders to convince them to oppose a UN Security Council resolution which would have set a timeframe for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
he White House said Thursday that Obama would not meet with Netanyahu when he travels to Washington, with a spokeswoman citing a “long-standing practice and principle” by which the president does not meet with heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections. Kerry will also not meet with Netanyahu.
Netanyahu will be in Washington in part for a March 3 address to a joint session of Congress. House Speaker John Boehner invited Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting the Obama administration.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-spat-in-our-face-white-house-officials-say/#ixzz3Pf5pHksN