No suspicion at all, it was totally done on purpose, just not by Netanyahu. According to one of the articles, it's a common tactic of the more right wing political parties to score points in this manner. Netanyahu would know better than to do that. it hurt him much more than it helped. He's done a lot to keep a lid on these things. I take it you haven't heard of the Palestinians who invaded a public park and started building homes? The law said they would have to go but Netanyahu moved things around to avoid the whole thing becoming a public explosion. The announcement didn't fit his goals. Now he's forced to stand up to the US on things that were always in quiet, paper agreements. I'd like to expect Hillery of knowing when to play something quiet but Obama doesn't know at all and I'm betting he's the one that made the decision to make this into a huge public affair. He doesn't have the knowledge or experience to make bold moves into the Middle East but I guess he's the authority figure telling Hillery what to do and she's just pressing the button.
-- Michael Dinowitz On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well you have to admit that the timing was very suspicious. I suspect > that the lack of communications with the PMO does offer a thin cloak > of plausible deniability. > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Michael Dinowitz > <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: >> >> A government official announced that 1600 housing units would be built >> in a Jewish neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. He did it without any >> communication with the PM office so Netanyahu was embarrassed and >> Bidden took it as a personal insult. He showed his ire by making >> Netanyahu wait for over an hour and let loose with a verbal display >> only heard in diplomatic circles when a child is killed in the street >> on camera by a dancing crowd. Netanyahu apologized and that should >> have been it, but Obama and Clinton had to make a huge deal over it in >> order to 'put Israel in it's place'. >> >> The units in question were not something new and had been in the works >> for years (Jerusalem construction takes years to approve) and Israel >> has made itself very clear that the building freeze in the west bank >> is not in Jerusalem. In addition, the neighborhood is not a settlement >> or deep in an Arab neighborhood but in a 55 year old, large, thriving >> neighborhood. >> >> But the US wants what the US wants and screw anyone else. The US makes >> a deal with you and the deal only lasts as long as the US wants. >> Obama's been doing that a lot and he's really damaging US relations >> with its allies. But the US has done this in the past and I guess it's >> not on his "bad habits to change" list. >> >> So there's Israel's mistake in this. Pissing off Bidden and his bosses. >> >> -- >> Michael Dinowitz >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Several of those articles mention Israel's mistakes. >>> >>> Did they make a mistake recently? >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313752 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
