Netanyahu Fights Back!

“Jerusalem is not a settlement...
Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel.”

Things getting testy again between the Hamas-funding-and-Iran-fearing Obama Administration and our only true ME ally, Israel.

Alas, no surprise there... Obama's been picking an ill-conceived fight with Israeli PM/MIT grad/decorated Sayeret Maktal Commando Benjamin Netanyahu for some time now... while working behind the scenes to encourage regime change in Jerusalem.  

However -with Obama's political power and international prestige evaporating- why should Bibi cede anything and endanger his people just to get on the good side of an unskilled diplomatic klutz who's only tried to walk over him, anyway?

NYT (highlights RR):

President Obama’s criticism of new Israeli housing plans for East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s even sharper retort, have thrown the Middle East peace talks into jeopardy, with the dispute over Jewish settlements looming as a seemingly insuperable hurdle.....

The Obama administration is struggling to restart direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, which stalled last month after the expiration of a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet Mr. Netanyahu in New York on Thursday, while Egypt sent two top officials to Washington to discuss ways to salvage the process. 

But the brusque exchange between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu reflected again the gulf between Israel and the United States over settlements — an issue Mr. Obama initially made the centerpiece of his Middle East diplomacy.

Of course the already-insatiable Palestinians -who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity- are going to be asking for more now that they see the holes in Obama's position and lack of demands upon them... just like they did every other time the Israelis were pressured to make unmatched concessions to people wholly dedicated to their destruction.  

Some cultures just have an overly cynical world-view that always seems to have them mistaking good-faith gestures for weakness... and blowing their chance every time:

Palestinian officials said Israel’s latest announcement threatened the talks and could prompt a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. 

When asked in about Israel’s plans for 1,000 housing units for a contested part of East Jerusalem, Mr. Obama said, “This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations.” 

“I’m concerned that we’re not seeing each side make the extra effort involved to get a breakthrough,” the president added during his visit to Indonesia. “Each of these incremental steps can end up breaking trust.” 

A few hours later, Mr. Netanyahu’s office responded with a statement, saying that “Jerusalem is not a settlement; Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel.”

But the PLO and Hamas aren't the only ones smelling weakness:

Analysts said Mr. Netanyahu’s unyielding tone — a palpable contrast to his chagrined reaction after a similar housing dispute during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — testified to the altered political environment in the United States. 

The stinging Democratic defeat in the midterm elections, the analysts said, had emboldened Mr. Netanyahu to push back harder against the administration. 

“He is dealing with a president who is politically weakened,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel. “A lot of his friends in Washington are Republicans. He feels more comfortable with them, so he just feels that he’s got a freer hand here.”

The official Israeli government statement re. the 1000 apartment units approved for East Jerusalem exposes the fight Obama's now picking as nonsensical...

“Israel does not see any connection between the peace process and the policy of planning and construction in Jerusalem, which has not changed in 40 years,” the statement continued. 

“For the last 40 years every Israeli government built in every part of the city. During that period, peace agreements were signed with Egypt and Jordan, and for 17 years direct negotiations were held with the Palestinians. 

These are historical facts. Construction in Jerusalem has never interfered with the peace process.”

The State of Israel obviously faces existential threats right-under their noses and on all sides, including medieval savages in Tehran sworn to "wipe Israel from the map" as soon as they can jerry-rig a crude nuke and find a way to drop it on Tel Aviv. 

Bibi Netanyahu knows it's their necks on the line, and the other side has very little interest in living in peace alongside them- probably never will, if you believe Hamas' own charter. 

He simply can't afford a fairy-tale world view like Barack Obama sees to think is so modern and cool. Obama no longer has the political momentum and moral authority to move the mountains required for an effective two-state solution anway- and everybody seems to know it but him. 

In reality, the record for unilateral Israeli concessions designed to charm the Palestinians into not firing missiles at their houses and schools is an abject lesson in failure... a point perhaps irrelevant to narcissistic personality types who never learn from their own -or anybody else's- errors.

So sorry about him, Israel... rest-assured most normal Americans still support you.

Jerusalem Post   New York Times

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America's Timely and Abrupt About-Face

Nice to see the country snap-out of it...

November 2008:

November 2010:

Eventually it was going to take more from this smiley plastic mannequin than just campaigning, schmoozing, and pontificating. And ever since, it's been nothing but failure.  

But if the MSM are too busy propping him up to see it...
it's become plenty clear-enough to the rest of us:

Rasmussen Reports:

Presidential Job Approval Rating:   

Jan 22, 2009:              +30 %

Today:                          -18 %

Change:                      -48 %

Generic Congressional Poll:             

Jan 25, 2009:  Dem    +6 %

Today:              GOP  +12 %

Change                      -18 %

Democratic Party Affiliation:

January 2009:              40.9 %

Today:                          36.3 %

Change                       -4.8 %

(nearly 5% of voters actually quit the Democratic party)

Thankfully, much of this also translated into historic GOP gains a week ago today. This occurred with sufficient gusto to overcome most election fraud of the kind that put the widely-despised statist fossil Harry Reid back in office... more on that today at Mind-Numbed Robot.

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Middle School Trick Play: You Have Got to See This One...

The Texas team's coach called it "a really slow quarterback sneak"... and reportedly his QB didn't even think it would work. The play tied the title game 6-6... pretty slick:

Google Trends   Wapo

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Establishment Wakes and Smells the TEA: Republican Freshman Kristi Noem to Join Congressional Leadership

Smart move, Mr. Speaker...

In a savvy political move also indicative of the growing respect the TEA Party constituency has garnered, GOP House leaders say they will grant incoming freshmen far more say in the party’s direction than most first-term lawmakers receive...

WSJ:

House Republican Leader John Boehner and his No. 2, party Whip Eric Cantor, will notify newly elected Republicans Tuesday that one member of their class will get a seat at the leadership table and another two will be given spots on the Steering Committee, which decides committee assignments and chairmanships in the new Congress. 

“The incoming GOP freshman class will have a larger voice at the leadership table and on the Steering Committee than previous GOP freshman classes in previous Congresses,” according to an advanced copy of the letter. Members of the class will run for these positions, along with those of class president and freshman representative to the policy committee, on Nov. 17 after the entire Republican caucus selects its leaders for the next two years, according to the letter. 

With 80-plus new members, the freshmen class will be an influential group. Many claim strong ties to Tea Party activists who bickered frequently with the party establishment in the run-up to last week’s midterm election. 

Messrs Boehner and Cantor and others have promised to make sure these newly elected lawmakers play a prominent role in deciding the party’s path forward. 

The letter to freshmen is signed by Mr. Boehner, the Ohio Republican who is in line to be House speaker, and Mr. Cantor, the Virginia Republican who is expected to become majority leader in the next Congress.

Interestingly, South Dakota's new US Congressional Representative Kristi Noem -who is often compared to The Arctic Fox herself- has thrown her rancher's hat in the ring. And according to Neil Cavuto's sources, she's already got it bagged:

CNN:

Two of the sources said that South Dakota's Kristi Noem- has expressed interest in the leadership post and appears to have the backing of the current GOP leadership.

A source close to Noem confirms that she is interested in the leadership slot and has talked to several members of the Republican leadership about it.

Noem would have to be elected by the freshman class of Republican House members.

If she got the spot, it could help the new House Republican majority with two issues: bringing someone associated with the Tea Party movement into the leadership fold, and adding another woman.

Kristi Noem is a true Reaganite conservative who's quite telegenic and well-spoken... Gipperesque, even.

Rep-Elect Noem actually holds the all-time fundraising record for GOP congressional challengers, and it is impressive indeed for a Capitol Hill rookie to be offered such a position of influence and power from day one.

She's good...very good, and has GOP rising-star written all over:

This is the new face of the vehement and tireless patriotic opposition you needlessly created out of thin-air, Mr President...
coming to getcha.

So have you ordered the MSM/HuffPo/Kos scum that prop you up to get-on with the Palinization yet...you sniveling coward?

Gateway Pundit  h/t Hot Air   Kristi for Congress   The Caucus

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Mean People Causing Misunderstood, Magnanimous Genius Obama to Fail

'Mean' = Republicans and/or uppity taxpayers

If there was any doubt remaining as to whether Barack Obama was actually the detached narcissist many have long warned of, the bizarre denial, deflection, and spin coming from him in the wake of the Dems' crushing midterms defeat should do much to clear up any ambiguity.

Unsettlingly, this is a man who simply does not appear to learn from error -his or anybody's else's- a catastrophe in such a powerful executive position, but a personality flaw typical of those who dodge responsibility for the results of their actions while surrounding themselves with obsequious bootlicks-
(as narcissists are so apt to do).

Toby Harnden (Telegraph/UK) says Obama's now got himself believing that the little spanky he got last Tuesday was about anything but his own liberal policies... and that this enduring, delusional belief in his own greatness will likely be be his political undoing (highlights RR):

Barack Obama struggled to explain the disaster that had befallen his party – and his presidency. The man who ascended to the White House through his soaring oratory spoke with all the passion of a regional sales manager addressing a gathering of disgruntled customers.

..............

After an hour, the White House press corps managed to extract what they needed. The Democrats had suffered a "shellacking", he admitted. Four times, Obama used the words "take responsibility". Towards the end, he managed to feign looking disconsolate, even crestfallen. 

But Obama's response to loss of more than 60 seats in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate (the biggest congressional elections defeat since 1948) was the opposite of taking responsibility. 

He had been so busy responding to an "emergency situation", he said, that he had failed to explain the wisdom of his policies. He was sympathetic, he said, to those who felt his agenda had been "looking like potential overreach" – a lawyerly utterance so hedged with qualifiers that it was virtually meaningless. 

Americans had not "felt" the progress achieved due to his actions. There had not been "as much progress as we need to make" and in some areas he should have "pushed harder" for more progress. 

He was happy to work with Republicans, he explained, provided they had suggestions for "improvements on the progress that we've made". 

The one thing Obama was not prepared to admit was that his policies, which have led to a massive expansion of government power and the national debt, could in any way be at fault. The problem with health care reform, he said, was that the process used to achieve it was "an ugly mess" – no mention that it was hugely unpopular and pushed through on a partisan vote without a single Republican legislator's support...

In-addition to such habitual dishonesty -ends always justify the means for the leftist- Barack Obama simply does not care who disagrees with him -even a majority of the nation's electorate- and even less why.

Rather -like most insular, incurious libs- he looks down on you for being such an unenlightened provincial... yet not without some pity:

Obama is not about to move to the centre. Whereas Clinton was an instinctive "Third Way" centrist from the South who had wandered too far Left, Obama is a standard-issue liberal of the type found in Ivy League commons rooms. 

Nothing in his career indicates he is ready to cut deals with political opponents. He is sure what he believes is right; if you don't agree with him, he pities you for being so slow to understand.

Then Gateway Pundit has a clip of Obama's spiel on 60 Minutes last night where he actually tried to blame the GOP for the voters' backlash against ObamaCare... utterly shameless. And not just with this wild fiction in general but with myriad inaccuracies employed to support the assertion:

Barack Obama: “I made the decision to go ahead and do it. And, it proved as costly politically as we expected. Probably actually a little more costly than we had expected… Partly because I couldn’t get the kind of cooperation from Republicans that I hoped for. We thought that if we shaped a bill that wasn’t that different from previous bills that had introduced by Republicans, including the Republican governor in Massachusetts who’s now running for president, that we would be able to find some common ground there and we just couldn’t.” 

Here are a few points regarding his statement: 

- The health care bill was passed before not after the unpopular financial bill. 

- Mitt Romney is not currently running for president. 

- We’ve never been a bill like this proposed nationally unless you count Hillarycare. 

- Obama was pushing the bill for over a year before democrats rammed it through. 

- It was the central focus of his first two years in office. 

- They didn’t even read the bill. 

- Democrats thought it would be more popular by the midterm election. 

- His other emergency economic proposals were complete bombs, too. 

 Of course, Steve Croft did not bother to question the president about any of his inaccurate statements...

And while the President doesn't seem to want to see it this way, most of the country that isn't irreversibly sucked-in or co-opted by this confidence-trickster blames him directly -Barack Obama- for the greatest midterm defeat in 60 years... including a significant portion of his own now-greatly-diminished party -here-

-thx Pookie's Toons-

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