BIBI’S PENCHANT FOR PICKING LEFT WINGERS LIKE OREN, LIVNI, BARAK, AND WEINSTEIN IS TO BLAME.
REUTERS
Israel must try to repair relations with the United States no matter who wins Tuesday’s election, said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington and a potential foreign minister if his party joins the next government.
“We have to do a major reach-out. There’s some work to be done,” Oren said, citing strained ties after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress assailing a potential nuclear deal with Iran sought by President Barack Obama.
The US-born Oren, 59, was appointed ambassador by Netanyahu in 2009 and served until 2013. He is running for parliament as a candidate of the centrist Kulanu party that could be a kingmaker in building a governing coalition after the poll.
In an interview with Reuters, Oren, a historian, said Israel needed to restore bipartisan Congressional support in the face of Democrats’ anger over Netanyahu’s acceptance of the Republican invitation to address Congress.
One way to try to achieve that, he said, would be to declare that Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank would be limited only to areas which Israel intends to keep in any future land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians.
“I think we can go very far to ameliorating some of the strains with the Democratic party if we don’t build outside of these blocs,” said Oren, a possible pick for foreign minister if Kulanu, led by economic reformist Moshe Kahlon, is in the next government.
Obama has criticized Israeli settlement-building in territory Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and which Palestinians seek for a future state. Israel cites Biblical and historical links to the land, as well as security concerns, in rejecting any return to pre-1967 lines.
US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians collapsed in April, and Oren said he did not envisage their early resumption. But he said Israel could take steps, such as allowing Palestinians greater freedom of movement in the West Bank, to cultivate what he called a “two-state situation”.
“Doing nothing is not an option,” Oren said, describing one far-right party’s proposal to annex parts of the West Bank as “disastrous” and inviting Israel’s “instant isolation” internationally.
“We’ll lose America, you have to work hard to lose America but that would do it,” he said.
“This is what we have to do in the interim: we have to build up a two-state situation … and we have to prove to the world that we are serious about any future negotiations for a final settlement with a Palestinian partner.”
Oren said that despite the four-seat lead the center-left Zionist Union, led by Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, has opened over Likud in the final opinion polls before election day, the race was still too close to call.
Surveys before Israel’s past elections, in which no one party has ever won a majority of parliament’s 120 seats, have not always been accurate, he said.
And, Oren noted, the party that captures the most votes is not necessarily the ultimate winner, since another faction might have more allies for a coalition government and get the nod from Israel’s president to try to form one.
We all prgged obama early mostly due to his associates and associations but apply the same standard to BB and what do you get. Even Dermer is a Liberal or moderate Repuclican from Florida very active and connected to Republican politics. If you have to pick an ambassador picking Dermer is like waving a red flag to the Obama machine. Not smart.
BB sought to destroy any worthy succesor or party opponent and they all left either politics or BB and most cases both. He is a paranoid who trusts no one and can not work with any one for long. That goes it seems to his personal relationships. I never listen or pay attention to anything that lying Bastard says only his actions the their results.
He has shut out of this campaign all senior members of the Likud from participation and input and ran everything himsel making this election a primary as to who would make the best PM in other-words his persona against all others and the voters began to vote with their feet. When BB panics he loses it and you can see him fall apart when the polls started going south pure hysterical panic and this is how he always reacts under pressure… ALWAYS!!!!
@ Eric R.:
Eric, don’t worry about your English. You probably meant passion but we got the message anyway. Thank you for your postings and your knowledge. Vote early tomorrow. I’ll be watching from NYC. Thank you again.
@ Avigail:
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
You are right. Israel already lost the good relations with America. Netanyahu has done nothing to deserve the treatment given to him by the musloid in chief. The Entertainer Obama has done everything in his power and then some to ridicule and undermine BB. I pray I can see him leaving the WH in handcuffs and shackles.
It is a blessing in disguise if we do not have to depend on America anymore. It gives us the freedom to buy and sell to whoever we want. Enough of the Obama’s tyranny.
We have to put up with his disregard for the law and the Constitution. Hopefully the next President might look
more favorably to Israel but in any case it is better to be independent.
@ Eric R.:Thanks. I knew something was wrong but didn’t give it the attention I should have.
Meanwhile back at the freaking ranch:
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/the-third-holiest-karate-demonstration.html#.VQdKQMlBO0Y
I’m dying with shame.
Ad mataï?
“BIBI’S PENSION FOR PICKING LEFT WINGERS LIKE OREN, LIVNI, BARAK, AND WEINSTEIN”
I believe the word to be used here is “penchant”, not “pension”.
(Hey, even engineers have some knowledge of the English language.)
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
This article is so revolting: Israel has NOTHING to do to “repair” the relationship, because Israel has done nothing to damage it. It was Obama all along (since 2009) and it was always intentional from the get go.
@ Avigail:
Netnyahu promoted that item and he is paying the price for doing it. They are operatives working for the administration. Israel is suicidal as we relay on that people. Hope remains that in the future relations will return to a better shape.
While Mr. Hussein Obama is there, drop them.
“We’ll lose America, you have to work hard to lose America but that would do it,”
We’ve already lost America. Only you haven’t noticed, moron.
How can Israel have good relations with the USA when an anti-Semite, pro-Muslim is the president of the USA?