This
is all of a piece with Obama’s relentless determination to blame Israel
for the jihad against it and to box it in and oppose it at every turn.
“U.S. publicly humiliates Israeli defense minister as visit ends,” by
Barak Ravid,
Haaretz, October 25, 2014:
The White House refused to give Israeli Defense Minister
Moshe Ya’alon an audience with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of
State John Kerry, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice during his
trip to the United States this week, senior American officials confirmed
Friday. The reason for the cold shoulder was a number of statements
Ya’alon made six months ago, in which he criticized the Obama
administration and Kerry in particular.
“Given some of his comments in the recent past, it should come as no
surprise that he was denied some meetings,” a senior U.S. official told
Haaretz. During his visit, Ya’alon met with Secretary of Defense Chuck
Hagel and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. A senior
American official told the Associated Press that the White House wanted
to instruct Power to decline meeting with Ya’alon but that they had
only learned of the meeting after she had consented.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and Department of State
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki didn’t deny these reports in their daily press
briefing Friday. Instead they merely answered laconically that Ya’alon’s
meeting with his counterpart Hagel was “a natural, standard procedure.”
Despite the fact that Ya’alon’s requests to meet with the senior
members of the Obama administration were declined over a week ago,
Washington waited until the visit ended before making the story public
in order to humiliate the Israeli defense minister. Senior U.S.
officials leaked the story to the Israeli news website Ynet, which was
first to break the story, then to the AP news agency, and after that to
the rest of the press. The first reports came out just after Ya’alon
returned to Israel Friday afternoon….
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