Barak disses Barack
Israeli Defense Minister walked out of a meeting with US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon on Monday, and basically told the Obama administration to mind its own business. As more and more US officials publicly call on Israel not to attack Iran at this time, Defense Minister Ehud Barak emerged from a two hour meeting Monday with visiting US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon saying sovereign nations act based on their own perception of their interests.Anyone want to count how many times a member of the Obama administration says "unshakeable commitment to Israel's security" between now and November? Too bad it's not actually true. Heh.
The US-Israel relationship, Barak said at a meting of his Independence faction shortly after hosting Donilon, is a relationship between "two sovereign countries, each one responsible in the final analysis for the decisions it takes for itself and about its future."
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The White House put out a statement after the meeting saying that Donilon concluded three days of talks in Israel that "addressed the full range of security issues of mutual concern."
"The visit is part of the continuous and intensive dialogue between the United States and Israel and reflects our unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security," the statement said, adding that Donilon confirmed a meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama for March 5.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Ehud Barak, Tom Donilon
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:48 AM
3 Comments:
Carl, I think you're reading too much into this. The report doesn't say he walked out. The meeting adjourned, he came out, and then Barak made remarks about sovereign interests after the meeting was over, remarks that are pretty standard by now. Meanwhile there is no reliable report that Israel actually has in hand a military plan to overcome the serous obstacles to a successful mission. A lot of this is probably kabuki, not only Obama's pretend commitment to sanctions of the moment or non-nuke-holder Iran.
Israel is not indulging--maybe it should but it isn't--of personal defiance and their top guys are staying in line:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4192486,00.html
everyone assumes Israel is sacrificing a ready-to-go attack plan.
assumes.
A better approach would to tell Obama whatever he wants to hear and then proceed with whatever really needs to be done. And when questioned on the disparity of those two things, simply repeat that the relationship between Israel and the US is "unbreakable".
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