Benjamin Netanyahu to Obama – Butt out of Israel’s internal affairs!

Can’t say i’m surprised. Bibi isn’t a wussy like Obama, and isn’t going to bow to him as if it was Obama bowing to the Saudi King. With the  White House demanding an end to Israel’s settlement growth and expansion of Israeli areas of Jerusalem and adherence to the so called “road map” long abandoned by both  the Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli Prime Minister told the American President to butt out of Israel’s internal affairs. More from Yahoo:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rebuffed U.S. calls for a full settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank and vowed not to accept limits on building of Jewish enclaves within Jerusalem.

Netanyahu’s defiant stance set the stage for a possible showdown with President Barack Obama, who, in talks with the new Israeli prime minister in Washington last week, pressed for a halt to all settlement activity, including natural growth, as called for under a long-stalled peace “road map.”

“The demand for a total stop to building is not something that can be justified and I don’t think that anyone here at this table accepts it,” Netanyahu told his cabinet, referring to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, according to an official.

Netanyahu said Israel had no plans to set up any new West Bank settlements. But he told Obama, according to the official, that his government “does not accept limitations on building” within what Israel defines as its capital, the Jerusalem municipality, an area that includes Arab East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank captured in a 1967 Middle East war.

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May 24, 2009 · Filed Under Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, palestine


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  • roger25

    Well it is not Israel’s internal affair when we pay them $3 bill/yr and protect them cover at UN and take flak globally on there behalf.