Powerlineblog.com’s John Hinderaker has written an excellent piece, on Barack Obama’s likely post-election treatment of Israel, titled “Will Obama Punish Israel for Re-electing Netanyahu?”
I’ll show you the first part…but you would be making a mistake not to read it all; every word:
Politico reports on the Obama administration’s reaction to yesterday’s election results in Israel. The Obama administration is fuming, as you might expect. Still, this is deeply ironic: Israel has re-elected a leader who is pro-American, who shares our values, who is popular with the American people-more popular, in fact, than our own president-and our administration is outraged. This is the upside-down Age of Obama. To be pro-American is now bad, apparently.
So how might Obama retaliate against Israel for re-electing a pro-American government?
In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decisive re-election, the Obama administration is revisiting longtime assumptions about America’s role as a shield for Israel against international pressure.
Angered by Netanyahu’s hard-line platform towards the Palestinians, top Obama officials would not rule out the possibility of a change in American posture at the United Nations, where the U.S. has historically fended off resolutions hostile to Israel.
Nice country you have here. Shame if something were to happen to it.
Thank you, John, for showcasing so well the smallness, vindictiveness and ego-over-common sense behavior of Barack Obama.
How I wish you were wrong.
