Obama throws ugly tantrum about Israel as Iran proxies fight openly in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen-NY Daily News Editorial

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1/25/15, "Obama’s ugly tantrum could be dangerous to Israel," NY Daily News Editorial

"The President should receive Netanyahu, and heed his warnings about Iran's nuclear program."

"President Obama’s refusal to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister comes to Washington in March to address a joint meeting of Congress is a petulant, juvenile snub — one that couldn’t be more badly timed.

The Israeli leader “spat in our face,” an unnamed senior U.S. official told Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “and there will be a price.” An unnamed source “close to Kerry” told the Washington Post the House speech “could blunt Secretary Kerry’s enthusiasm for being Israel’s primary defender.”

That’s gangster talk, aimed at one of America’s closest allies-all because the Israeli leader dared to accept House Speaker John Boehner’s to address Congress on the emerging Iranian nuclear threat without consulting them first.

Too bad. Boehner leads the House. He can invite who he wants. Netanyahu leads his country. He can speak where he likes.

In fact, it’s completely understandable that the prime minister would accept the speaker’s invitation — because the President, who should be happily receiving him, has made a hash of the Washington-Jerusalem relationship.

More important than bruised feelings is what Netanyahu has to say about the danger Iran poses to the Jewish state and to the world, a danger Obama seems determined to let metastasize.

Under Obama’s watch and in the aftermath of the so-called Arab spring, Iran’s power has extended. 

Its proxies and soldiers are openly fighting not only in Lebanon, but in Syria, and Iraq, and now Yemen.

The Persian state’s reach even extends to Argentina, where a prosecutor was found dead hours before he was supposed to testify about the Argentine government’s secret plans to cover up Iran’s role in bombing the Israeli embassy and then a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.

And all that’s not to mention Iran’s nuclear program — which advances as Obama asks for endless extensions of negotiations that buy the mullahs more time to develop the apocalyptic weaponry they covet.

In fact, Boehner’s invitation was extended just after Obama vowed to veto debilitating new sanctions to be imposed after the upcoming June deadline, if this last round of talks fails.

If Obama had his head screwed on straight, he’d see congressionally mandated future sanctions as a tool to force Iran’s disarmament.

Instead, he foolishly insists the sanctions already in place — which he relaxed, and which have failed to get the U.S. and its allies an inch closer to their goal — are sufficient.

While he also warns that Iran would bolt if Congress threatens future sanctions. While he also says he would impose future sanctions if negotiations fall apart. Call it flaccid incoherence.

Armed with confirmation that Obama isn’t listening, Netanyahu should raise the volume of his voice, and the American people should listen to him even more intently."




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