Showing posts with label Netanyahu vs Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netanyahu vs Obama. Show all posts

Thursday, December 06, 2012

The Middle East Media Sampler 12/6/2012: Have Obama and Netanyahu Resolved Their Differences?

From DG:

Working together? 

Last week Eugene Kontorovich wrote:
Speaking of the President – credit where credit is due. I have previously criticized the record of his first three years on Israel, and stand by that. My criticism was always non-partisan. As I often point out, the Democratic Party has always been in lock-step with the general American solicitude for Israel, but Obama in his first three years took a different, confrontational course. 
In the year before the election, he switched gears. I am happy to observe that since the election, his support of Israel has been what one would expect of any generic American president. One suspects that Abbas’s obvious rejection of any serious peace process, and his open use of Obama as a cat’s paw, began to grate.
Yesterday, Lee Smith asked (and answered) Have Obama and Bibi made up?

Friday, November 09, 2012

The Middle East Media Sampler 11/10/2012: Netanyahu vs Obama

From DG:

1) Revisiting Bibi vs. Barack

Yesterday I wrote about the coverage of Netanyahu's congratulations to Obama in the New York Times. The coverage almost exclusively focused on the opposition's charge that Netanyahu had unnecessarily alienated Obama. There was another side. Joel Greenberg, whom I often criticize, included the other side in his report Israel’s Netanyahu comes in for criticism in wake of U.S. presidential election: