Obama and his White House officials are still outraging over Netanyahu’s scheduled visit to the Congress and they making sure the world knows about it. And they are now trying to throw Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer under the bus:
NY TIMES – The Obama administration, after days of mounting tension, signaled on Wednesday how angry it is with Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Republican leaders’ invitation to address Congress on Iran without consulting the White House.
The outrage the episode has incited within President Obama’s inner circle became clear in unusually sharp criticism by a senior administration official who said that the Israeli ambassador, Ron Dermer, who helped orchestrate the invitation, had repeatedly placed Mr. Netanyahu’s political fortunes above the relationship between Israel and the United States.
The official who made the comments to The New York Times would not be named, and the White House declined to comment. The remarks were the latest fallout after Mr. Dermer, without the White House’s knowledge, worked with House Speaker John A. Boehner to arrange the speech, which is scheduled for March.
The remarks are likely to escalate a feud between the White House, Republicans on Capitol Hill and Mr. Netanyahu over the invitation, which has led to a new low in American-Israeli relations and threatened to mar the long tradition of bipartisan support for Israel in Congress.
Petulant Obama acts like this whole freaking country revolves around him. It’s sickening how outraged he is over this. Truth is, I would expect a reaction like this from the Islamo-Nazis in the Middle East. Erdogan is always overreacting to anything Netanyahu. And now Obama is acting almost just like him, except he doesn’t have the balls to just come out and say it like Erdogan. He has to have his little minions in the White House run around leaking it anonymously here and in Israel. And it’s despicable.