Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Will Congress Investigate Obama’s Attempt to Derail Bibi?

President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.

Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg
Dan Senor, American author of Stand Up Nation and former adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, sent out an electrifying message on Israel’s election day, January 22, claiming that two U.S. officials in Israel quietly conceded that President Obama’s statements to Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg were an intentional effort to hurt Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in the election.

If what Senor claims is true, and President Obama was attempting to influence the Israeli election, it is possible that it could become the subject of a congressional investigation.
The statements at issue were revealed in an article Goldberg wrote forBloomberg on January 14.  That article, the headline of which was, “Obama: Israel Doesn’t Know What its Best Interests Are,” was filled with insider dish from Goldberg, and it was ugly.
Among the things that Goldberg claimed Obama has said about Netanyahu were that his policies were “self-defeating,” that “Israel doesn’t know what its own interests are,” and that “Netanyahu is moving his country down the path toward near-total isolation.”  Goldberg wrote that Obama made these comments frequently, and to several people. PLS CONTINUE READING: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/will-congress-investigate-obamas-attempt-to-derail-bibi/2013/01/23/

 

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