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Obama Will Meet With Netanyahu At White House
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11/9/09
With relations between the Obama administration and the Israeli government tense, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama at the White House on Monday night.
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This is a session the White House did not seek; Netanyahu is in Washington to speak Monday at a Jewish Federations of North America conference which features speeches by Israeli government and opposition leaders.
The Israeli press had been speculating for days whether Netanyahu would get his meeting with Obama, and the White House only on Sunday announced the talk.
Unlike some meetings with heads of state, Obama is not scheduled to appear for a photo session with Netanyahu or take questions with him after their meeting.
Unlike some meetings with heads of state, Obama is not scheduled to appear for a photo session with Netanyahu or take questions with him after their meeting.
Obama was to address the federation group on Tuesday, but cancelled to attend a service at Fort Hood, Texas, for victims of last week's massacre. In his place, Obama is sending his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, whose father is an Israeli and who has taken a tough-love approach toward Israel. To underscore the importance of Obama's relations with the U.S. Jewish community, the White House set up a Monday reception for the federation leaders and late Monday morning announced that Obama will briefly stop by the State Dining Room to see them in person.
Netanyahu will also meet with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill on Monday.
The Netanyahu-Obama meeting comes as the almost 10-month-old Obama White House has little progress to show so far in Middle East peace negotiations. Israelis were concerned over Obama's call, during a speech in Cairo last June, for Israelis to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Netanyahu will also meet with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill on Monday.
The Netanyahu-Obama meeting comes as the almost 10-month-old Obama White House has little progress to show so far in Middle East peace negotiations. Israelis were concerned over Obama's call, during a speech in Cairo last June, for Israelis to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank.
The Obama administration has since softened the rhetoric, now asking Netanyahu for restraint. The formal U.S. policy still calls for a freeze on settlement construction. Netanyahu, for his part, proposed limiting expansion to some 2,500 new homes at Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Jerusalem a little more than a week ago, got in a jam with the Palestinians and other Arab Middle East players when she praised Netanyahu's move to restrain expansion, because it was not the freeze Obama called for.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Jerusalem a little more than a week ago, got in a jam with the Palestinians and other Arab Middle East players when she praised Netanyahu's move to restrain expansion, because it was not the freeze Obama called for.
At the White House, several sources told Politics Daily that Netanyahu is likely to focus on Iran's nuclear programs, the United Nations "Goldstone" report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nothing substantive is expected from the meeting.
Though this is not an official visit, the Obama White House did not want to face criticism for turning down a request by an Israeli prime minister to see the president.
Though this is not an official visit, the Obama White House did not want to face criticism for turning down a request by an Israeli prime minister to see the president.
An August Jerusalem Post poll found 51 percent of Israelis surveyed found the Obama administration to be more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli; 35 percent were neutral and only 4 percent found the Obama White House to be pro-Israeli.
Though the video was not posted on the White House web site, Obama taped a video greeting shown last Saturday at a rally in Tel Aviv marking the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Nov. 4, 1995. Said Obama,"You will always have a partner in the United States of America and in my administration." See the video here.
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garry402
2:04PM Nov 9th 2009
What a scoop Lynn. The White House doesn't want the world to know that Obama is meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister. They are going to sneak Netanyahu into the White House after dark. Lynn, get your camera because no photo-op is schedule. This is one big thumbs-up for you.
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donbos67
2:50PM Nov 9th 2009
With the establishment of government-mandated death panels just days away, grandmothers began fleeing the United States in record numbers today, reports Fox News.
"I am never one to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, said Fox News host Glenn Beck. "But run for your lives!"
Across the country, slow-moving caravans of 1980s-era Cadillacs with turn signals blinking were making the torturous journey to the Canadian border, their back seats laden with cats, knitting projects, and pictures of grandchildren.
Fox News may have set off the mass exodus by warning grannies that if they did not flee quickly enough they would face government-mandated organ harvesting.
"I am never one to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, said Fox News host Glenn Beck. "But run for your lives!"
Across the country, slow-moving caravans of 1980s-era Cadillacs with turn signals blinking were making the torturous journey to the Canadian border, their back seats laden with cats, knitting projects, and pictures of grandchildren.
Fox News may have set off the mass exodus by warning grannies that if they did not flee quickly enough they would face government-mandated organ harvesting.
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(-9) Goppy
3:03PM Nov 9th 2009
This is a very interesting comment on your part ... garry402.
As one who is about as distant as one could be from what happens in the White House ... how do you divine what the White House want?
Is it because you wear some tried and true 'head gear' ... that enables you to read President Obama's mind?
We'd all really like to know ...
Oh ... wait ... I'm sensing it now ... it's that RAGE that the person you DIDN'T vote for ... is now COMMANDER IN CHIEF ... ... and ... ... wait ... I'm getting it now ... ... you are EXTREMELY BITTER that Ronald Reagan is not longer occupying the White House.
Got it.
Now garry402 ... exactly how long are you going to carry this rage inside you?
I mean ... you DO know that Ronald Reagan has died ... right?
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Hey ... life moves onward ... and you don't always get what you want ... but if you try ... sometimes ... you get what you need.
Take a chill pill ... ... and enjoy the fact that you live in a Democracy.
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As one who is about as distant as one could be from what happens in the White House ... how do you divine what the White House want?
Is it because you wear some tried and true 'head gear' ... that enables you to read President Obama's mind?
We'd all really like to know ...
Oh ... wait ... I'm sensing it now ... it's that RAGE that the person you DIDN'T vote for ... is now COMMANDER IN CHIEF ... ... and ... ... wait ... I'm getting it now ... ... you are EXTREMELY BITTER that Ronald Reagan is not longer occupying the White House.
Got it.
Now garry402 ... exactly how long are you going to carry this rage inside you?
I mean ... you DO know that Ronald Reagan has died ... right?
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Hey ... life moves onward ... and you don't always get what you want ... but if you try ... sometimes ... you get what you need.
Take a chill pill ... ... and enjoy the fact that you live in a Democracy.
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(-5) Goppy
3:09PM Nov 9th 2009
Oh ... and donbos67 ... may I give you a clue ... ?
Even Sarah Palin ... that inveterate camera hound ... has backed away from the Stunning Propaganda known as "Death Panels".
In a recent critique about Max Bachus's Health Care Reform ... she made not one mention of Death Panels.
It seems as though ... Americans weren't fooled by the whole crazy charade.
I'm just telling you because ... ahem ... you look REALLY foolish when the main instigator of this Lying Propaganda ... has backed off from it.
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Even Sarah Palin ... that inveterate camera hound ... has backed away from the Stunning Propaganda known as "Death Panels".
In a recent critique about Max Bachus's Health Care Reform ... she made not one mention of Death Panels.
It seems as though ... Americans weren't fooled by the whole crazy charade.
I'm just telling you because ... ahem ... you look REALLY foolish when the main instigator of this Lying Propaganda ... has backed off from it.
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(-5) Goppy
3:27PM Nov 9th 2009
I just prayed to God about your comment ... HE said you're completely off base ... that you're trying to twist the Bible into your extremely narrow POLITICAL vision.
If you are a CHRISTIAN ... you should read the NEW Testament.
Read about how Jesus Christ's message was all about PEACE ... LOVE ... ACCEPTANCE ... help for the poor ... help for the sick ... the elderly ...
But try as I might ... I have not been able to find ANYTHING in Jesus Christ's words that says .... "You should work for the benefit of Health Insurance Monopolies ... so that they may DENY Health Insurance to 30,000 MILLION . AMERICAN . CHILDREN."
I didn't see that anywhere.
Perhaps you can help me find it.
I'll be here.
Waiting.
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If you are a CHRISTIAN ... you should read the NEW Testament.
Read about how Jesus Christ's message was all about PEACE ... LOVE ... ACCEPTANCE ... help for the poor ... help for the sick ... the elderly ...
But try as I might ... I have not been able to find ANYTHING in Jesus Christ's words that says .... "You should work for the benefit of Health Insurance Monopolies ... so that they may DENY Health Insurance to 30,000 MILLION . AMERICAN . CHILDREN."
I didn't see that anywhere.
Perhaps you can help me find it.
I'll be here.
Waiting.
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(-1) Goppy
3:32PM Nov 9th 2009
Thank you for calling me ignorant.
Yes .... I confess ... I'm ignorant as to the mindset of the Modern Republican.
I just can't wrap my mind around the hypocrisy ... it's a kind of .... self serving ... angry pretzel logic.
Please ... feel free to continue foaming at the mouth about .... DEATH PANELS!
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LOL ... I suppose ... you believe ... the BIG BLACK BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ... is going to sneak into your grannie's home ... and personally THROTTLE her?
Ah .... I _LOVE_ y'all.
Seriously ... I ... A B S O L U T E L Y .... LOVE ya!!!!
So Entertaining.
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Yes .... I confess ... I'm ignorant as to the mindset of the Modern Republican.
I just can't wrap my mind around the hypocrisy ... it's a kind of .... self serving ... angry pretzel logic.
Please ... feel free to continue foaming at the mouth about .... DEATH PANELS!
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LOL ... I suppose ... you believe ... the BIG BLACK BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ... is going to sneak into your grannie's home ... and personally THROTTLE her?
Ah .... I _LOVE_ y'all.
Seriously ... I ... A B S O L U T E L Y .... LOVE ya!!!!
So Entertaining.
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(-1) daballofire
3:48PM Nov 9th 2009
Netanyahu better bring some Mossad packing heat with him in case the President has an ex Muslim flashback, goes postal on him or is really a sleeper hiding out in his wife's closet.
You just can't tell now a days. The president sure doesn't like Jews and Israelis much as it is. Neither would you after beign brainwashed by the famous, expert Mind Melter and anti Semite Rev Wright for 20 years -- after his Muslim Mosque indoctrination as a child. Yep, better to be safe than sorry.
You just can't tell now a days. The president sure doesn't like Jews and Israelis much as it is. Neither would you after beign brainwashed by the famous, expert Mind Melter and anti Semite Rev Wright for 20 years -- after his Muslim Mosque indoctrination as a child. Yep, better to be safe than sorry.
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(6) daballofire
3:56PM Nov 9th 2009
I'm confused Luette. I just thought he was insane and intellectually (like Obama's I & I problem) challenged? Now we find out he is ignorant too. What a bad break. Do you think we can get him some electrochock treatments with some of that free Obama Money?
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(5) Andie Wuvs Me :)
4:47PM Nov 9th 2009
Oh no. Is this where Butt-Rack Tells The Israeli's that he is selling their ARSES out also? Da' ChoZen W'Onda' has proven to be untrustworthy AND Here He Tries Again! LOL &&&& Ajm33771 says; Ricky & Lucy, please es'plain: Would You Trust Robin Da' Hood?
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(3) Annie
6:37PM Nov 9th 2009
they just each other at the UN.........hmmmmmmmmmm
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(1) Tom
6:45PM Nov 9th 2009
The problem here is Obama is leaving many of our Ally's in the dark as far as US future support. Especially Israel and their very hostile neighbors, namely Hamas, Hezbolla, Syria and Iran. With Iran's ambitions of nuclear technology and the destruction of Israel in the forefront. Obama needs to understand that Israel acting unilaterally could virtually annihilate Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Russia in a single strike and the ramifications would be felt around the world. The US would surely be forced to become involved if that were to happen. Obama's current position of trying to ignore this fact is very naive at the very least. However, with no past or present foreign affairs experience and his limp noodle approach to this very dangerous world that has multiplied ten fold since Obama took office. Even the Bible states that Israel will destroy the "Bear" to the North, Russia. If the Obama Administration continues it's current policy towards Israel it may in fact force Israel to act unilaterally to protect itself. Israel does not tell the US what to do and in turn the US should not tell Israel what to do, after all it's not like it's Iran threatening the US with annihilation. No one would even think of telling the US to give up the land forcefully taken from the American Indians... I would suspect that Netanyahu will express his concerns of Obama's current position to Iran and the direction he has chosen relative to the Israeli position. This is creating an even more dangerous fine line for (a man with no experience) Obama to walk. Time is of the essence here, the more time that goes by the more dangerous this situation becomes. I do hope Obama puts his WAR boots on, for he will surely need them if Obama stays his present course. The early cancellation of joint military excursuses between Israel and the US is an obvious indication that Israel is not trusting the stage set by the US foreign policy. What I know of Natenyaho is he is a man of conviction and a man of purpose for his people, and certainly has the wherewithall to do what would be necessary to protect his people and his country. I just hope the Obama Administration does not try to back him up into a wall of indifference.
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(2) Goppy
7:32PM Nov 9th 2009
He's a MUSLIM ... eh?
Man Alive ... I can't tell which is more entertaining ... reading the STUNNINGLY IGNORANT comments by people who have absolutely NO CLUE ... ...
... ... OR ... ...
Imagining their puffy red faces ... as they spray spittle flecked rage all over their computer screens ... getting themselves all worked up into a lather ... about MADE UP STUFF!
On the other hand ... it IS somewhat sad that these poor saps are being manipulated by a FOREIGNER ... Rupert Murdoch ....
One would like to think these people ... ignorant and rage filled though they may be ... can be so easily manipulated by a Foreigner ... a Foreigner who MOCKS The United States of America.
Now ... WHY do I say he MOCKS The US?
Because among his FIRST hires ... were ...
G. Gordon Liddy ... indicted criminal for crimes against the US.
And
Oliver North ... indicted criminal for crimes against the US.
See?
Of course ... this is all lost on FOX Followers ... Their rage is such ... they NEED something to hate.
Rupert Simply focused that hate on The United States.
Still ... it's sad .... while these people are SPITTING on the US ... we have men and women ... fighting and DYING ... in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now ... I realize that these RAGING HATERS of America don't care about that ... ... ... and ... ... ... I guess that's where I say ... Republicanism has DEFINITELY changed over the past 30 years ....
FROM a flag waving America LOVING Ideology .... TO ... a Flag SPITTING America HATING Ideology.
All in the span of 30 years.
Who would have thought that a foreigner could have such influence on people like lj ... and all the Modern Republicans like him/her.
I certainly never saw THAT coming.
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Man Alive ... I can't tell which is more entertaining ... reading the STUNNINGLY IGNORANT comments by people who have absolutely NO CLUE ... ...
... ... OR ... ...
Imagining their puffy red faces ... as they spray spittle flecked rage all over their computer screens ... getting themselves all worked up into a lather ... about MADE UP STUFF!
On the other hand ... it IS somewhat sad that these poor saps are being manipulated by a FOREIGNER ... Rupert Murdoch ....
One would like to think these people ... ignorant and rage filled though they may be ... can be so easily manipulated by a Foreigner ... a Foreigner who MOCKS The United States of America.
Now ... WHY do I say he MOCKS The US?
Because among his FIRST hires ... were ...
G. Gordon Liddy ... indicted criminal for crimes against the US.
And
Oliver North ... indicted criminal for crimes against the US.
See?
Of course ... this is all lost on FOX Followers ... Their rage is such ... they NEED something to hate.
Rupert Simply focused that hate on The United States.
Still ... it's sad .... while these people are SPITTING on the US ... we have men and women ... fighting and DYING ... in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now ... I realize that these RAGING HATERS of America don't care about that ... ... ... and ... ... ... I guess that's where I say ... Republicanism has DEFINITELY changed over the past 30 years ....
FROM a flag waving America LOVING Ideology .... TO ... a Flag SPITTING America HATING Ideology.
All in the span of 30 years.
Who would have thought that a foreigner could have such influence on people like lj ... and all the Modern Republicans like him/her.
I certainly never saw THAT coming.
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(-2) Goppy
8:33PM Nov 9th 2009
LOL ... SHOW me that video, Luette.
Post it here ... so EVERYONE can see that you are either a Bold Faced Liar ... OR ... a COMPLETELY Deluded Paranoid.
Okay?
My God ... You FAKE Christians are really too much.
PAGANS have more of a conscience than y'all do.
Heck ...
ATHEISTS have more of a conscience than y'all do.
So much HATRED ... so much RAGE.
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Post it here ... so EVERYONE can see that you are either a Bold Faced Liar ... OR ... a COMPLETELY Deluded Paranoid.
Okay?
My God ... You FAKE Christians are really too much.
PAGANS have more of a conscience than y'all do.
Heck ...
ATHEISTS have more of a conscience than y'all do.
So much HATRED ... so much RAGE.
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(-1) rck8543
8:37PM Nov 9th 2009
Goppy you are still an ignorant blow hard...Jesus taught how to love and turn the other check to a society that honored death over life...look what they did to Him. Look around fool!
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(2) gvpal52
9:50PM Nov 9th 2009
Goopy works For the RNC helping to make there point easier to make, Commies suck!
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(1) gvpal52
9:53PM Nov 9th 2009
Goopy might be in on the T-shirt business with the dick that keeps rolling the boar over with advertising. You would think that PD could stop this.
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(1) rck8543
8:42PM Nov 9th 2009
Goppy you are still an arrogant, dull witted moron. I saw the video...ask your mommy to google it up for you. In the mean time get the he-- off my screen!
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(2) Goppy
8:55PM Nov 9th 2009
LOL ... such RAGE!!!
I ESPECIALLY appreciated your reference to Jesus ... while you dish out rage filled insults ... it's CLASSIC!
Thank you for helping me present what it means to be a FAKE Christian.
Now ... as to the video ... yes ... I've seen it ... and only someone who was so cynical ... and so completely devoted to their own paranoia ... could conclude that Obama is a Muslim.
BTW ... here's something for you to consider ... Remember Reverend Wright?
Remember how all you Rage Filled Righties SCREAMED about how Barak Obama went to THAT CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS?
LOL ... Please don't MAKE me point out to y'all how ridiculous is your mental state.
I'll leave it at that ... and hopefully you can connect the dots.
And please ... do yourself a favor ... and read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ... perhaps you can learn what REAL Christianity is.
Bless you ... and ... I'll NOT be getting off your computer screen.
I'll be here for a LONG time ... I'm hoping to convince the Modern Right to STOP SPITTING on our nation ... ... and to STOP SPITTING ON JESUS CHRIST.
... well ... like YOU did.
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I ESPECIALLY appreciated your reference to Jesus ... while you dish out rage filled insults ... it's CLASSIC!
Thank you for helping me present what it means to be a FAKE Christian.
Now ... as to the video ... yes ... I've seen it ... and only someone who was so cynical ... and so completely devoted to their own paranoia ... could conclude that Obama is a Muslim.
BTW ... here's something for you to consider ... Remember Reverend Wright?
Remember how all you Rage Filled Righties SCREAMED about how Barak Obama went to THAT CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS?
LOL ... Please don't MAKE me point out to y'all how ridiculous is your mental state.
I'll leave it at that ... and hopefully you can connect the dots.
And please ... do yourself a favor ... and read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ... perhaps you can learn what REAL Christianity is.
Bless you ... and ... I'll NOT be getting off your computer screen.
I'll be here for a LONG time ... I'm hoping to convince the Modern Right to STOP SPITTING on our nation ... ... and to STOP SPITTING ON JESUS CHRIST.
... well ... like YOU did.
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(0) gvpal52
9:47PM Nov 9th 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu should rip Obama a new one over the bull he has been pulling with emboldening radical Islam.
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(2) Huanliu
3:23AM Nov 10th 2009
I don't think these religions difference will make a big impact....
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