Obama and Netanyahu Are Disappointed and Brokenhearted

Heartbroken and disappointed, President Barack Obama will welcome Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. Obama is a coward and a failure. Netanyahu is a terrorist or at least a war criminal. They hate each other, and their meeting will not lead to anything more than empty words without meaning. Any political hypocrisy that occurs has already been exposed. Netanyahu doesn’t deserve any name that does not label him a foul, hateful racist.

Only a few days before his trip to the United States, he wantonly appointed Ron Baratz as the new communication director for the occupation government. After this came repeated attacks on Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry in recent weeks. Baratz’s appointment was another slap in the face to the American president. Netanyahu was possibly encouraged to permit this behavior because of Obama’s previous unconcerned reactions to similar Israeli official statements before.

Baratz lives in a settlement, and has called Obama “anti-Semitic” and, on social media, has labeled Kerry a “clown” that cannot be taken seriously. In 2004, Baratz called for a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, which left Obama and Kerry defending themselves against his previous positions stating that the Temple Mount is a Jewish creation just as Israel is itself.

The Israeli ambassador in Washington, Ron Dermer, who worked previously as an activist for the Republican Party, stood behind Netanyahu’s speech last March against the Iran nuclear deal. Even Israeli newspapers themselves wrote that Netanyahu had lost touch with reality and that his meeting with Obama would not lead to anything fruitful.

Diplomatic statements released from the Obama-Netanyahu meeting do not eliminate the common factor between the pair’s mutual hatred for one another. After all, it was the Israeli prime minister who failed in his attempt to stop the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran. He has returned this time to the U.S. under the pretext of delivering a speech in front of Congress. However, the reality is that the U.S.’s annual aid agreement to Israel will expire in 2017. Israel, who is an occupying and a terrorizing government as well, receives $3 billion in military and economic aid annually from the United States. Now, Israel wants to increase this annual amount of aid it receives to $5 billion in order to enable them to kill more women and children in Gaza and the West Bank.

I am not alone in this assertion. In a public opinion poll conducted by the Israeli think tank Mitvim, 60 percent of respondents criticized their government’s performance in foreign affairs. Israel’s Supreme Court will therefore look into Netanyahu’s position as the country’s prime minister, and his role as the foreign, economic, and regional cooperation minister. There are problems in the annual budget of the United States, which has cut back on spending for important social programs that cover the sick and elderly, students, and others. Netanyahu has therefore not received any promises of aid from Obama, something the U.S. Congress has always granted because of Israel’s strategic importance to the United States.

Worse than what has been said over the past few days were statements from Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon. He is a terrorist and has been promoting the fact that Israeli and Arab war planes conducted joint training exercises in the United States. In reality, what happened was that Jordanian fighter aircraft participated in the training that was arranged by the United States. Ya’alon has also stated, in reference to Egypt and Jordan, that Israel and Arab countries have mutual enemies. I say that the real enemy is Israel before any other Arab threat. Israel is, of course, a nation of settlers who are occupying the land. Therefore, I believe that there should be no reconciliation or recognition with them until Palestine becomes an independent state with at least 22 percent of its original territory.