All of the following are from the Jersusalem Post (online):
Obama demands Netanyahu’s peace answers by Saturday – 3/25/2010
[T]he administration’s treatment of Netanyahu during his meeting with Obama created the impression of a deep crisis in relations. As Jackson Diehl wrote in The Washington Post, the White House’s refusal to allow non-official photographers record the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, and the fact that no statement was issued afterward, led to the impression that “Netanyahu is being treated as if he were an unsavory Third World dictator, needed for strategic reasons but conspicuously held at arms length.”
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Post poll: Obama still in single digits – 3/26/2010
9% of local Jews say US administration pro-Israel; 48% call it pro-Palestinian. The poll of a representative sample of 500 Israelis was conducted on Sunday and Monday after weeks of heightened tensions between Obama and Israel, but before the crisis intensified during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House. (emphasis mine)
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PM won’t drop coalition partners – 3/26/2010
Hermesh described the prime minister upon his return to Israel as “defeated, embarrassed and humiliated.”
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Obama didn’t mean to snub PM – 3/28/2010
Reuters quoted David Axelrod as saying[...] "there was no snub intended."
Note: In the comments section, one Israeli wrote, “Obama's clear snub of Bibi was not only meant as a gesture of hostility towards Israel and solidarity with Israel's enemies. It was also meant as a trial balloon in the U.S. If Americans accepted the snub, Obama would stand by it. However, Obama's disgusting snub of Bibi was rightly condemned by America's media and leaders. Thus Obama now claims it was unintentional."
As others have said, we do not know all the details of what happened. Even if it turns out this was much ado about nothing, (even if it turns out it was all a misunderstanding over zebra for dinner!), it still never hurts to simply remind our Israeli friends on the boards that we support Israel and consider her our friend and ally.
