Washington – Report: Senior Obama Administration: Netanyahu Got No Guts

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    Washington – The administration of US President Barack Obama has expressed its displeasure over Israel’s recent announcement that it would be building more housing units in east Jerusalem, but now reported name-calling directed at Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be added to the tensions between the two allies. 

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    Jeffrey Goldberg, diplomatic correspondent for The Atlantic, reported Tuesday that he recently spoke to a senior Obama administration official about, “the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most.” The unnamed official reportedly told Goldberg: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit.”

    “The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars,” the official said.

    “The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he’s not [Ariel] Sharon, he’s certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He’s got no guts.”

    Goldberg quoted another official who reportedly agreed with the first official’s assessment but added that Netanyahu was also a “coward” on the Iranian nuclear threat issue.

    The second official reportedly told Goldberg that the “Obama administration no longer believes that Netanyahu would launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.” 

    “It’s too late for him to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. Now it’s too late.”

    “The feeling now is that Bibi’s bluffing,” the second official reportedly added.

    Sources in the Prime Minister’s office responded to the slurs by saying that Netanyahu will continue to remain firm on the security interests of Israeli citizens and on the Jewish people’s historic rights in Jerusalem.

    “No pressure will change that,” the sources said.

    Economy Minister Naftali Bennett quickly came to Netanyahu’s defense, issuing a statement saying that the prime minister of Israel is not a private person, and that cursing him is “an insult not just to him but to the millions of Israeli citizens and Jews across the globe.”

    “The leader of Syria who slaughtered 150,000 people was not awarded the name ‘chicken ‘,” he wrote. “Neither was the leader of Saudi Arabia who stones women and homosexuals or the leader of Iran who murders freedom protesters. If what appears in the press is true, then it seems that the current US administration is throwing Israel under the bus.”

    Bennett called on the US administration to “immediately reject these gross comments.”

    Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post


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    9 years ago

    Anti Israel is “common sense” for a dog who bites for charity.

    This really is disgusting.

    And will Barack the peeler speak up? Probably not in my lifetime.

    It is acceptable under the Obama regime to disparage jews.

    And so the lust of hate goes on.

    Bibi can feed that surgically planted “chickens**t” to the grabbing Antisemitism of Barry’s free world affairs.

    PowerUp
    PowerUp
    9 years ago

    For us jews, this is not a joke, we have to stop to rely on israel, or on the israeli military that they can save us, only hashem can.

    9 years ago

    Bibi is the ONLY PM that stands up for HIS COUNTRY’S RIGHTS TO EXIST. Mr. Obama & Administration – If Bibi is “chicken” you’ll be a LAME DUCK IN NOVEMBER

    9 years ago

    The language is undiplomatic but fortunately the underlying thought is true. Thank G-d that Bibi is fearful of starting a war with Iran that would ultimately result in a world war.

    9 years ago

    Understand that pocket antisemitism from the administration is just gas for the Obama courtesy call.

    Obama in reciprocation for this move should be referred to as Jack Crack.

    He has no givings about the reality of his antisemitic conduct.

    Fodder is not gravity for war.

    Forth of July celebrations with Obama have jets that stall on the upcoming adventure.

    Poverty with an enigma.

    OyGevald
    OyGevald
    9 years ago

    Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! The WH says Netanyahu has no guts! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! They are complaining too that he’s afraid to start wars (i.e. Iran). Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!
    Ok, let’s get serious now. Obama has lots of feathers in his cap from all the wars he began and won. Which one? Oh none! Ain’t we glad the WH considers the recent Gaza incursion as nothing? Its nothing because they just stated that Netanyahu aint got no guts to begin a war.
    Best news I’ve heard out of the WH in a loooong time.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    9 years ago

    Does anyone think Bibi has the guts to make peace? Making war is easy, it give you votes and makes you stronger politically. It would take a lot of courage to try for peace, lose votes and perhaps end your career.

    TexasJew
    TexasJew
    9 years ago

    Obama is the enemy of Israel. In 5 years the rest of the world will recognize this.

    9 years ago

    It will first begin after next Tuesday. When there will be no more elections to effect after this coming election, we will see the real Obama, and it will be ugly. He will be uninhibited in his disdain for Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular. I would not be shocked if the U.S abstained when the Palestinians bring their issue to the Security Council. Congress has no sway as to how the U.S votes at the UN. Furthermore, Obama will absolutely take whatever deal is on the table with Iran after the election. He will declare victory with whatever meager concessions he obtains. 2 more years folks..

    54321
    54321
    9 years ago

    This disgusting name calling coming from the white house, is disgraceful.
    Unfortunately, it is true. Bibi lacks backbone and time and again can nit muster up the courage to what’s right and needed to protect Israel and his people.

    Thoughtful
    Thoughtful
    9 years ago

    Things are getting quite nasty between the two administrations….
    the hateful truth keeps on brewing to the surface…. in the past they tried covering it up but bigotry can only stay hidden for so long…..

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    9 years ago

    It is rather strange to read some of the comments that are posted by the management as they are off the wall.

    LiberalismIsADisease
    LiberalismIsADisease
    9 years ago

    hey senior obama piece of horse manure thug,

    (from wiki)
    Netanyahu joined the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War in 1967, and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He took part in many missions, including Operation Inferno (1968), Operation Gift (1968) and Operation Isotope (1972), during which he was shot in the shoulder. He fought on the front lines in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then leading a commando assault deep into Syrian territory.[3] He achieved the rank of captain before being discharged.

    its safe to say mamzer obama couldnt hold a candle to bibi’s guts.

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    “Washington – The administration of US President Barack Obama has expressed its displeasure…The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars,” the official said.

    He has more guts and patiance than our president,
    I can’t believe how many imbeciles we have in our administration,
    Seems like we didn’t want racial profiling, and we just got a lot of loosers there

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    9 years ago

    #17 Yes, making peace is not easy. Making war is easy. Bibi prefers the easy, short-term course of action. But if we do not make peace, we must make war. War, over many decades, can have only one result.