He has no problem chumming around with Hugo Chavez, meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad no matter what he does or says, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, hiding 200 million dollars in a supplemental to go to Hamas, lunching with Edward Said, or extending a hand to Cuba, but President Obama refuses to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister during his visit to the United States.
If anyone still had any doubt, Obama is making his allegiances very clear.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his plans to attend the upcoming AIPAC summit, after it became clear that US President Barack Obama would not meet him during the conference.
Netanyahu announced that while he will not attend the conference in person, he will send a video-taped message to Washington.
Army Radio reported that the prime minister asked President Shimon Peres to represent Israel at the summit, scheduled to take place in Washington in the beginning of May.
According to the radio station, sources in the president’s bureau confirmed that Peres had received a request from Netanyahu and AIPAC officials to attend the summit, but noted that the president had not yet decided whether to accept the invitation.
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I guess you have to be an enemy of the United States to get any respect from this present Administration. (As we found out early in his term, that meant no time for American soldiers as well). It is looking more and more prophetic everyday what Ali Abunimah from The Electronic Intifada, said on March 4, 2007 about Obama’s pretending to be a friend of Israel just to get elected (and I guess now just to lull his naive Pro-Israel supporters into complacently).
This is a Government that said it likes to hear from its citizens. I say you contact them and let them know how you feel.
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(*Update: 4/20/2009 20:18:28 p.s.t) President Obama is also willing to speak directly with Hamas.
