You might forgive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for feeling a little dissed by The Greatest Diplomat In History. President Obama gave him a mere handshake instead of a bow and then walked out to attend a private dinner.
Really. Fox News reports, “For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Benjamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.”
In fact, the Israeli press called the meeting “‘A hazing in stages’, poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line.”
Maybe the Greatest President In History was miffed that the Israeli PM was not willing to provide him with the chance to actually earn a Nobel Peace Prize by ditching their construction plans, but rumor has it that Obama was still “livid when such an announcement derailed the visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the Vice-President, this month and his anger towards Israel does not appear to have cooled.”
But does Netanyahu have any room to gripe? It’s not like he is a foreign dictator or anything. He represents a democratic ally and with Obama at the helm democratic allies are a dime a dozen, right?
Source: Fox News
