Netanyahu and Hillary Clinton
It’s been three years since Cairo, and Obama is now telling the Palestinians to drop dead. Harriet Sherwood in the Guardian reports on a disturbing gesture:
The United States has warned European governments against supporting a Palestinian bid for enhanced status at the United Nations, saying such a move “would be extremely counterproductive” and threatening “significant negative consequences” for the Palestinian Authority, including financial sanctions.
A US memorandum, seen by the Guardian, said Palestinian statehood “can only be achieved via direct negotiations with the Israelis” and urged European governments “to support [American] efforts” to block the bid. The message was communicated by officials to representatives of European governments at the UN general assembly (UNGA) in New York last week.
Palestinian officials accused the US of exerting “tremendous pressure” on European governments to oppose their bid for upgraded “non-member state” status at the UNGA
Writes my tipster, who doesn’t share my view of the Israel lobby as all-encircling:
Is this necessary? This is truly a disgusting clique sitting in the White House and State Department. The power of the lobby in the Democratic Party (no neo-con influence needed), but also insight into Obama. This says something about Obama, more than the lobby. He disdains and bullies the political weak wherever he meets them. He may want to level the playing field slightly, but he still wants all the spoils to go to the winners. And in his mind he is a winner.
This article set me off because it seems to go beyond what the politics requires. The US could be opposed without using all its power to crush the Palestinian effort, and worse to take revenge on the Palestinian administration, which you would think it would want to support.
Palestinian statehood “can only be achieved via direct negotiations with the Israelis.”
quid pro quo of the moment – we’re throwing israel a bone after the smackdown we gave them … and with the election weeks away Obama does not want any big changes in the region for now … it hopefully will be very different in a year
This is just Victoria Nuland’s boss “doing a Nuland”.
They should tell the Yanks to F*** off and ask the Chinese or the Russians for financial support. Israel will end up in the Hague for Cast Lead.
”I feel as if George Orwell’s television screens from 1984 are now here”
American government is now officially Orwell land.
“The US could be opposed without using all its power to crush the Palestinian effort”
They pulled funding from UNESCO when that body admitted the Palestinians. US/lobby behaviour on this issue is simply autistic.
Pretty typical. Uncle Sucker knows how to stay bought. The whole bit last week, with Obama refusing to meet with The Leader Of The Jews™, was nothing but a show.