Ugh. Major arrogance: Israeli leader: White House criticism un-American

[cali]

Nothing like a foreign head of state thinking he can define American values better than the President. Totally disrespectful and completely unacceptable.

Israeli leader: White House criticism un-American

-- Israel's prime minister dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying in comments broadcast on Sunday that the criticism goes "against American values."

The tough words by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to deepen a rift with the White House over Israeli construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians as parts of a future independent state.

Israel came under fire last week after a Jerusalem city official signed the final go-ahead for construction of a new housing development in east Jerusalem. A day earlier, an ultranationalist Jewish group said dozens of settlers would move into six apartment buildings purchased in the heart of a predominantly Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem.

Israel says east Jerusalem is part of its capital and considers Jewish housing developments there to be neighborhoods of the city. But the international community, including the United States, does not recognize Israel's annexation of the area and considers construction there to be illegitimate settlement activity.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-05-11-52-19

[The Magistrate]

1. His Campaign To Isolate Israel Continues Apace, Ma'am

Back in the days when we still celebrated Manifest Destiny and considered the triumph of cavalry and cowboy over 'injuns' right and proper supplanting of savages, he might have been right, but those days are long gone....

[spanone]

2. major warmonger

[TwilightGardener]

3. I'm at the point where we should just ignore whatever Israel does, and let them

reap the backlash. They won't listen to us, or the rest of the world. They don't want peace, they don't want to compromise, so let them endure whatever turmoil results. I do think we should help defend them from other countries that threaten them (Iran), but in internal matters within their borders, I no longer give a damn.

[louis-t]

4. Yeah, how dare you criticise our illegal acts....

[cali]

6. he's not cricizing U.S. illegal acts, so what is the point of that inanity?

[louis-t]

8. Uh, spoken from Israel's point of view?

They keep building settlements and we're just supposed to go along with it?

[cali]

9. oh, doh. got it.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Un-American...take that dog whistle

and shove it, Bibi. Fuckstain.

[Scootaloo]

7. I've been told by posters here that to criticize Israel means I hate the democratic party

But then I've been told the same for my disgust at Fattah al-Sisi's slaughters, and Narendra Modi's homophobia and religious fundamentalism.

Weird how support for human rights is called anti-Democratic by certain people.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. Another right wing POS simultaneously talking tough and wanting continued handouts

Fuck off, hypocritical beggar.

[Enthusiast]

13. +1

[mulsh]

11. He's right. He should take a principle stand.Refuse any further funding from the USA and

perhaps begin to return the financial support and end the military support we've wasted on Israel during his terms as prime minister.

[Agony]

12. talk is cheap. We need to stop subsidizing illegal behavior.

Reducing our 3 billion dollar annual payoff by the amount that Israelis spend colonizing inside the green line would tie the two together with a policy that would be a direct cost for this behavior. Simple step that will never happen, cuz talk is easy.

[blm]

14. Waahhh!!! Netanyahu wants his BiBi's Boyz back in the WH.

Gee - If only Romney had won and out-sourced all our foreign-policy decisions to Bibi like he promised.

[lsewpershad]

15. Ball in your court

Mr President.

[yurbud]

16. every insult from Netanyahu, every new illegal settlement makes me wonder what we GET from Israel

Washington does nothing out of altruism, at least not with such a steep price tag, both monetarily and in alienating other countries in that neighborhood.