Israel tries to calm the storm, Obami keep ranting and raving
Israel and its allies in Washington are trying to calm the storm over last Tuesday's announcement of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo. And the Obami (with apologies to Jennifer Rubin from whom I'm stealing the term) are continuing to fan the flames. Meantime, a Jerusalem district planning committee canceled two meetings that had been planned for this week, “apparently out of concern that any more decisions on construction might result in further tensions with the United States,” Israeli daily Haaretz reported.AIPAC and (as I noted earlier) the Anti-Defamation League have also called on the White House to tone it down.
“The Interior Ministry has said that the meetings were canceled due to technical reasons … but committee members nevertheless have received a new schedule, on which all meetings pertaining to controversial construction areas were erased,” the paper said.
Netanyahu is headed to Washington next week to speak at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Clinton is supposed to represent the administration at the AIPAC conference.
In an unusual move, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) made a public call on the White House to tone down the rhetoric. The lobby said statements made by senior officials in US President Barack Obama’s administration were “very worrying.”But so far, the Obami are refusing to tone it down. They won't let it go.
The US administration refused to let go of the issue, even after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologized to Biden and Biden said the apology was accepted. AIPAC said the White House should avoid public demands and unilaterally setting a timetable for Israel to follow.Historian Michael Oren, our ambassador to Washington, describes this crisis as the worst since 1975.
Israel’s ambassador to Washington Michael Oren convened Foreign Ministry consuls for an emergency briefing, and told them the crisis between Israel and the US is the worst since 1975, Army Radio reported.Perhaps it's a good sign that I don't even remember that crisis (I am old enough to remember it). As one of my close friends always says, this too shall pass.
Oren was referring to a crisis that evolved when Israel refused to sign a treaty to withdraw forces from Sinai in 1975.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:51 PM
2 Comments:
As i said in another post,
Israel should quit all peace talks.
Quiting the "talks" (in reality there is no one to talk) gaves israel the oportunity to tell obama to fuck off, and conitue to build wherever it want in it's territory.
A very relevant point (about quitting the talks) in my opinion, is that the next time that talks are suggested, there will be in israel terms.
Narcissists never back down.
Narcissists can not be wrong.
This too will not pass. At least not without squeezing the life out of Israel first.
Nothing explains Obama better then this:
from Wikipedia:
"Narcissists tend to demonstrate a lack of interest in warm and caring interpersonal relationships."
Perhaps this explains how Obama has so easily thrown his "friends" under the bus when needed. It also explains that he never had good a good feeling about Israel so why start now. (Of course his campaign pledges before APAC prove words and promises mean nothing. ditto every other President before him.)
Hotchkiss's seven deadly sins of narcissism
1. Shamelessness - Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.
2. Magical thinking - Narcissists see themselves as perfect using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
3. Arrogance - A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.
4. Envy - A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person's ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.
5. Entitlement - Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves uniquely special. Any failure to comply will be considered an attack on their superiority and the perpetrator is considered to be an "awkward" or "difficult" person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.
6. Exploitation - can take many forms but always involves the using of others without regards for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. Sometimes the subservience is not so much real as assumed.
7. Bad Boundaries - narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate and are not extensions of themselves. Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who provide narcissistic supply to the narcissist will be treated as if they are part of the narcissist and be expected to live up to those expectations. In the mind of a narcissist, there is no boundary between self and other.
read it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
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