[Heaven] How Will Netanyahu Respond To Obama's Ultimatum?
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How
Will Netanyahu Respond To Obama's
Ultimatum?
The holidays are over and Prime
Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. He
has to
respond to U.S. President Barack
Obama's
ultimatum, the gist of which is the
demand
to freeze construction in East
Jerusalem and
the numbers of Jews moving there.
Netanyahu
would have been glad to dismiss
Obama's
demands, but he understands that he
can't,
so he's waging a PR campaign in the
United
States to soften the
administration's
position. Netanyahu has been saying
for many
years now that the president is not
an
autocrat and that American foreign
policy is
influenced by Congress, public
opinion, the
media and think tanks. Now his
theory is
being put to the test. Over the past
three
weeks the administration has been
flooded
with letters by U.S. representatives
and
senators, ads of support by Ron
Lauder and
Elie Wiesel, editorials and columns,
television interviews with the prime
minister and e-mails from Jewish
supporters
of Israel. They all warn, at various
levels
of bluntness and harshness, that
Obama is
abandoning Israel in the face of
threats
from Iran's nuclear program and
Palestinian
terror. Obama's pressures have
called
Netanyahu's bluff: It's not Iran
that is
Netanyahu's top priority, as he
claimed
before he was elected, but rather
the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh
Jarrah. The
fact is, the prime minister did not
call on
Elie Wiesel and members of congress
to warn
against the "second Holocaust"
that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is
plotting, but to
prevent construction plans at the
Shepherd
Hotel, Silwan and Ramat Shlomo from
shutting
down, which would cost the prime
minister
his right-wing coalition.
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