Now this is no way to treat a world leader that is supposed to be our ally.
Benjamin Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of tense talks to have supper with his family, it emerged on Thursday. The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations and appeared designed to show Mr Netanyahu how low his stock had fallen in Washington after he refused to back down in a row over Jewish construction in east Jerusalem.
What would have been wrong about just sitting down and having a "working dinner" of a few sandwiches or something while they kept meeting? Instead Obama leaves a world leader to cool his jets for an hour while he has dinner with his family? That was an outrageous snub.
Netanyahu isn't the head of the 4H or something but the leader of a nuclear power that is our only ally in an area rife with our enemies. Treating him like some minor official has to be the worst foreign policy blunder that I have seen in a long time. I really hope it isn't some sort of deep seated anti-Israeli sentiment on the part of Obama. But the take away is surely Israel has no friend in the White House at least until 2012.
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