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In My 2010 book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, Obama’s vicious antisemitism is well documented I suspected it was rooted in his Islamic upbringing and Quranic schooling in Indonesia. It was deep and it was ugly and it went far beyond the general animus of every day antisemitism.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulls back the curtain on just how bad it was …..
In their first meeting in the White House in 2009, US President Obama Obama threatened Netanyahu…
Netanyahu said that Obama did something else “that deeply shocked me because it was so opposed to his restrained character. The message was clear and it was meant to strike fear in me.”
Obama gestured as though he was slitting someone’s throat while saying he knows how to deal with Netanyahu.
Netanyahu: Obama had ‘not just bad policy, but malice’ towards Israel
The first time Netanyahu met Obama was in 2007 when the former was opposition leader and the latter was a freshman senator.
By Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2022:
The Obama administration tried to “force confrontations” with Israel, former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses in his new book Bibi: My Story.
In their first meeting in the White House in 2009, US President Obama threatened Netanyahu, the latter wrote.
As the meeting was about to end, Obama said: “You know, people often read me wrong, but I come from Chicago. I know how to deal with tough rivals.”
Then Netanyahu said that Obama did something else “that deeply shocked me because it was so opposed to his restrained character. The message was clear and it was meant to strike fear in me.”
Netanyahu does not say what Obama said or did to threaten him, but in a recently-published biography of the prime minister called Cracking the Netanyahu Code, journalist Mazal Mualem said that Obama gestured as though he was slitting someone’s throat while saying he knows how to deal with Netanyahu.
“Mr. President,” Netanyahu responded, “I am sure you meant what you said. But I am the prime minister of Israel and I will do all that I can to defend my country.”
The first time Netanyahu met Obama was in 2007 when the former was opposition leader and the latter was a freshman senator. Netanyahu thought that even though they had very different points of view – Obama “championed the social-democratic idea; I was an economic conservative and security hawk”- that they could work well together.
Netanyahu dismissed his first impression a paragraph later, calling it “wishful thinking,” and scoffing at Obama as someone who “saw the world through anti-colonialist glasses” but did not understand the historic facts of the Israel-Palestinian conflict in which “if there is any colonialism…it is Arab colonialism that began in the Muslim conquest of the Land of Israel, after which the land was emptied of most of its Jews.”
After Obama became president, Netanyahu wrote that he felt the tensions between them were beyond the usual pressure from US presidents over the Palestinian issue, but rather was “something much deeper, ideologically and personally.”
Netanyahu also expressed frustration at being unable to get the Obama administration on his side when it came to stopping the Iranian nuclear program.
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel “tied America’s ability to stop Iran’s advancements in the nuclear area to our advances on the Palestinian track,” the former prime minister lamented. “The equation he made was clear as day: The US had no possibility to advance in stopping Iran without getting something in return for the Palestinians.”
During a 2010 White House visit, Obama gave Netanyahu and his staff “an assignment,” which the latter resented, saying that the president talked to them “like we were employees in his business or students in his class, not representatives of a sovereign state.” The assignment was to come up with concessions in Jerusalem that would renew talks with the Palestinians. After a few hours, Netanyahu walked out of the White House.
Ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to the White House the following year, the administration told him that Obama would be publicly calling for a “Palestinian state based on 1967 lines with land swaps.”
Netanyahu called then-secretary of state Hilary Clinton and asked: “Why are you forcing a confrontation?”
After Obama talked about 1967 lines in the Oval Office press gaggle at the end of that meeting, Netanyahu said: “It’s not going to happen” and spoke at length about Israel’s security challenges.
Netanyahu said that Obama’s then-chief of staff William Daley told his diplomatic adviser Ron Dermer: “Does your boss always lecture people hosting him in their office?”
“Only when they’re kicking our country in the face,” Dermer retorted……
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