A Very Awkward Video Of Netanyahu Congratulating Obama

[Purveyor]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not seem eager for President Obama to win reelection this week, but that’s what happened, which made this morning’s public meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro a touch uncomfortable.
In the video above, the Israeli leader offers all the standard congratulations and reassurances and looking-forward-to things that a foreign head of state is supposed to make after a U.S. presidential election. But the subtext is tough to miss in his strained body language and in the polite nodding from Shapiro, who might well have lost his posting had Obama lost. Netanyahu was not exactly rooting for the president’s reelection, and there’s real concern in Israel that this could cost Netanyahu political support or even damage the alliance so important to Israel’s security.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/07/a-very-awkward-video-of-netanyahu-congratulating-obama/

[kitt6]

1. Netanyahu can't control this man from Kenya.

Ha Ha!

[lumpy]

2. If Netanyahu would clean up his dirty act maybe the bulk of the US would sympathize

with Israel.

[Plucketeer]

3. Israel

is a black hole we voluntarily throw treasure into. Offer them statehood or set them free as we so proudly, loudly, proclaim to do with created bastions of freedom. SIXTY-SOME YEARS.... after we ended WWII, and we're STILL providing cash and security for the vanquished and victims of that conflict. WHY don't we spend that money HERE??????????????????????????????????

[tomm2thumbs]

4. lying down with Romney only means waking up with Seamus' fleas

Adelson probably had a lot to do with this awkward moment -- sponsored by bags of cash