Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Ohhh… Bibi’s gonna be piiiiiiissed!
So, a memo with embarrassing revelations about the Israeli government’s reaction to the election of B. Hussein Osama X The Usurper™ authored by Nadav Tamir, the Israeli consul-general in Boston, was leaked to the press last week:
During a visit to Israel, I became more aware that we have a damaging misunderstanding regarding the intentions and policies of the American administration. I must note that even if I am wrong in my assessment of the American administration, the way in which we manage our relations nowadays is causing strategic damage to two very important aspects that make up our special relationship and they are the level of intimacy in coordinating policies, and the support of US public opinion towards Israel.
In many American circles, there is a feeling these days, that while the Obama administration tries to resolve global conflicts, it must deal with the refusal to cooperate by governments in Iran, North Korea, and Israel. Aaron Miller’s words, spoken after the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, clearly show this feeling. He said it was a meeting between Obama yes we can and Netanyahu no you won’t.
There are, of course, players in American and Israeli politics who oppose Obama ideologically and are willing to sacrifice the special relationship between the countries to further their own political agenda, but we cannot let these players damage the bipartisan attitude that rightly characterized the conduct of Israeli governments toward the US.
Naturally, since no good deed goes unpunished, Tamir suddenly found himself recalled to Israel for the thoughtcrime of not being sufficiently supportive of Israel’s Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem. Or as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it:
If someone is not happy and can’t live with government policy, the way is not to criticize and leak but to resign. With all due respect to the consul… it is not his job to express political positions.
Yes, quite. How dare he speak truth to power about how Bibi’s paranoid delusions are threatening Israel’s security?
(h/t, ThinkProgress)
[Extremely long anti-Semitic rant DELETED!]
Comment by mark hope — August 18, 2009 @ 2:10 am
Goodbye, racist.
Comment by J. A. Baker — August 19, 2009 @ 11:43 pm