Is Obama Planning His Revenge On Netanyahu?

[Purveyor]

During his final year in the White House, US President Barack Obama is preparing a metaphorical roadside IED for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It cannot be that the tainted relations between the two leaders will not end with Obama exacting some sweet revenge." Variations of the above statement have been uttered for a while now by senior American and Israeli officials since Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress last year during his campaign against Obama and his nuclear agreement with Iran.

This week, the New York Times brought the fraught Obama-Netanyahu relationship back into the headlines when the paper expounded on the US president's possible future revenge against the Israeli leader that will be served up cold in the form of a UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Several officials have said that Obama has grown so frustrated with trying to revive Middle East peace talks that he may lay down his own outline for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, in the form of a resolution in the United Nations Security Council, the Times reported.

“There will be a great temptation to do something in the final year. “For a president who came out faster and more aggressively on the Middle East than any of his predecessors, there is a gnawing sense of incompletion and perhaps even failure,” Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, told the Times last month.

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[bemildred]

1. Sounds like massive projection to me. nt

[Chan790]

2. Does JPost realize that US foreign policy doesn't revolve around Israel?

If they knew how little we think about them, they'd stop worrying what we think of them at-all.

Now, I want to see Bibi taken down masterfully as much as the next person...he's a filthy RW asshole who impedes the peace effort to keep his own party viable in Israeli elections...but I have no illusions that his comeuppance is coming.

[Nitram]

3. Obama doesn't live for revenge. But he might try to bypass Netanyahu to achieve peace

in the ME. Time to use the UN.