"Ice Cold": Trump Distances Himself From Netanyahu After Election"

[Me.]

Serves Netanhu right, this has been a long time coming, especially after the way he treated PBO.

“Benjamin Netanyahu is learning the hard way that Donald Trump is a fair-weather friend. The right-wing Israeli prime minister had been among the president’s few steadfast friends on the world stage; Trump, in turn, has long stood strong with Netanyahu. But after Bibi appeared to suffer a stinging loss in the Israeli elections this week, Trump did what he always does when his buds fall on tough times and can no longer benefit him personally: He distanced himself from his embattled friend, appearing to downplay a relationship that Netanyahu made central to his reelection pitch to voters.

“Our relations are with Israel,” Trump told reporters Wednesday, deemphasizing Netanyahu’s significance to the alliance after the prime minister failed to establish a conservative majority. “So we’ll see what happens.”

It was a notable turn for Trump, who has cast Netanyahu as his “good friend.” He’s tacked close to the prime minister, taking a number of Netanyahu-friendly actions as president—including recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem—and offering up his full-throated endorsement in last April’s election. “The United States is with him and the People of Israel all the way!” Trump tweeted at the time. Netanyahu, in turn, has lavished praise on Trump, saying that Israel has “never had a better friend” and even naming a planned settlement Trump Heights, playing into the president’s well-established enthusiasm for seeing his name on things.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/trump-distances-himself-from-netanyahu-after-election

[cilla4progress]

1. Status of election?

Updates hard to find.

[Me.]

4. As Of Now

There are calls for a National Unity Government. Netanyahu wants to be co-PM and share the power but Gantz and the Blue & Whites are having none of that. They want a unity gov. but without bibi. Also, bibi will have to face the charges against him in 2 weeks time.

[cilla4progress]

6. Awesome!

[madaboutharry]

2. Trump to reporters:

"Who is this Bibi you speak of?"

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

They deserve each other - his poor room-mate Jared

[Blue_true]

37. "Was he one of my coffee boys at some point?" nt

[The Genealogist]

3. Dotard is pulling a Larry Tate on Bibi, eh?

Color me surprised.

[cilla4progress]

5. Just saw an update in WAPO.

Great to have this bloviator Netanyahu go down.

Hooray for Israelis! New center-left guv. Hope its prescient for US coming up!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. "I hardly knew him - I only met him a few times."

[lunatica]

42. "Don't know him but they say he's naming a settlement after me."

[Tanuki]

8. I dunno. Maybe Bibi's internal pollsters told him that his association with Trump

is a turn-off to a segment of the Israeli electorate and he instructed him to back up a bit. I never take anything at face value anymore.

[Caliman73]

17. Except that this is Trump after the election.

The election has been over for 2 days. Trump said this yesterday when it appeared that Benny Gantz's lead was holding. Perhaps if something turns around and Netanyahu manages to find more votes, Trump will be his "best friend" again.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Trump and Bibi....Birds of a Feather, except when they are NOT.....

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Netanyahu faces criminal charges of corruption and will not have the cover of a title to keep him out of an Israeli prison. Trump sees this and fears that if he loses BIG in 2020, he too will share the same fate.


Another thought just came to mind....Trump lost an ally in which to go to war with Iran . Israel will defend itself, but it will not be firing first. They will fire if Iran fires first, and NOT at the insistence of Trump to justify a war with Iran.

Doesn't take a Secretary of State to figure that one out.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. This is a game changer for

the whole Middle East.

Noticed yesterday that none of the Saudi's Spox's never mentioned retaliation only to push ARAMCO IPO as well as their ability to meet Oil Market demands.

But,our End Timers Pence and Pompeo are all in for bomb bomb Iran crap. Interesting comment came from Japan's Foriegn Service person stating Iran was not the one launching that Saudi Attack. And it had a Yemen connection.

[Me.]

22. I Hope This Is An OMen

[Scurrilous]

10. Hate the player...

Netanyahu Used 'Misinformation' to Persuade Trump, Says Tillerson

<snip>

"U.S. President Donald Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, spoke at Harvard on Tuesday during a 90-minute panel interview with Harvard professors, giving assessments of various world leaders - including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Tillerson, who had a contentious tenure as the U.S.’s top diplomat, said that Netanyahu is “an extraordinarily skilled” politician and diplomat, but “a bit Machiavellian.” He continued, saying that “In dealing with Bibi, it’s always useful to carry a healthy amount of skepticism in your discussions with him.”

Tillerson, who first formed relationships with many world leaders while CEO of Exxon Mobile and served as secretary of state from February 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, even recounted how Netanyahu would use “misinformation” to persuade the U.S. when he deemed it necessary.

“They did that with the president on a couple of occasions, to persuade him that ‘We’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys.’ We later exposed it to the president so he understood, ‘You’ve been played,’” said Tillerson."

Link to tweet

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/tillerson-says-netanyahu-used-misinformation-to-persuade-trump-1.7865372

[Me.]

19. About Time Tillerson Started Talking

[UTUSN]

11. An astute DUer has guessed it's Bibi that SHITLER promised to go to war with Iran

[Mosby]

18. It's a lot more likely it's mbs.

[Fresh_Start]

12. we can hope that Netanyahu returns the favor

i'm sure he has some dirt on Trump...

[malaise]

14. Didn't the Con just tell us that Bibi wasn't spying on him in DC

when all the evidence showed just that.

[Me.]

20. What A Fool

PBO would've never put up with that

[malaise]

24. Remember now that (according to the Con and ReTHUGs) it is PBO's fault

that the Russians helped the Con steal the elections from Hillary.

[Me.]

27. Of Course It Is...He Never Takes Responsibility For Anything

what a weak, bully...he will get his. I hope the Netanyahu loss (win for us) has both he and Jared scared to death.

[Mike 03]

16. Maybe Netanyahu is the guy Trump made the promise to

and now he's blowing him off, kind of like he "barely knew" Michael Cohen or Manafort after the s#$% hit the fan.

[rusty fender]

30. I was thinking this,

but who knows

[H2O Man]

21. Recommended.

My son and I were laughing about this last night. It's not funny, of course. But some times you have to laugh.

[Me.]

23. What A Difference A Day Makes...Eh?

[H2O Man]

28. Between that and

the news about the "promise" of Donald Trump ......

[nolabear]

25. They're all the same. When you're useful, you're useful.

45 and his ilk, including his darling Bibi, would eat one another on live TV if they thought it would get them more power.

[brooklynite]

26. "I like Prime Ministers who don't lose Elections"

[Hortensis]

29. "Horseface is not my type."

[Me.]

33. OMG...I Cannot Unsee That

[Blue_true]

38. Yep. Definitely a projectile puke moment. nt

[captain queeg]

31. I just saw a headline that the US is seeking a coalition to deal with Iran

He’s going to find out none of the allies we’ve always been able to count on are not going to join up with him. He’s consistently shit on them and buddied up to dictators. His coalition will be the US and Saudi Arabia. Maybe the U.K., Johnson will be trying to incur favor. Hard to say about Israel, we’ve joined at the hip for a long time, but no one trusts Trump.

[Docreed2003]

32. "We'll see what happens"

Not to derail the thread but I'm about as tired of hearing that line out of Trumps mouth as I am "fake news". "We'll see what happens..." translation "I've got no clue about the question you as and I'm deflecting to avoid giving and even stupider answer"

[eleny]

34. Netanya-Who?

[crazytown]

35. Dump made a promise to Bibi he could not keep.

Now ...

[spanone]

39. trump is loyal only to trump

[mshasta]

40. bibi who? "never met him before

I don't talk to losers, he was just the coffee boy",
fake news...fake fake

[Captain Stern]

41. Wow. Who could possibly have seen that coming?

Other than everybody, I mean.

donald trump doesn't like losers. Even if it's somebody he used to like when they weren't losers, he never liked them if it turns out they are losers.

Why...donald trump and Netanyahu were just casual acquintances (if trump ever even met him at all)