Inside Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu's Strained Relationship - ABC News "The White House's decision last week to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded Israel stop settlement construction on occupied Palestinian territory infuriated Benjamin Netanyahu, further straining an already tense relationship between the Israeli prime minister and President Obama.
"The decision to abstain from voting broke with decades of US policy that shunned UN resolutions which condemned the settlements.
""Netanyahu took to Twitter to express his displeasure with the US, namely arguing that the UN was not the venue to tackle the issue of the settlements." . . .
In Netanyahu's new book, Obama's disrespect, an Afghan invite, the annexation fiasco | The Times of Israel . . ."Netanyahu paints the years of the Barack Obama presidency as a sustained, bruising struggle between himself and the Democratic leader, whom he characterizes as idealistic and driven but also aloof, disdainful, ignorant of Middle East realities and far too willing to appease Israel’s rivals — both in Ramallah and in Tehran." . . .
At White House, the Dalai Lama sidesteps trash - CSMonitor.com
Back-door Dalai’s not-so-grand exit Feb. 20, 2010 . . ."The spiritual leader, who visited Washington this week, had a rather undignified departure from the White House, exiting from a side door — walking past big piles of bagged garbage — on Thursday after he had a sit-down with President Obama.
"The Dalai Lama’s march out the Palm Room doors took him alongside heaps of trash whose removal had been delayed by snow.
"After the face-to-face, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile declared Obama “supportive,” infuriating Chinese leaders, who said the meeting hindered their own relationship with the United States."
Obama's people say it was not the 'back door"; it was the Palm Room door. But they did have to walk around trash and perhaps China liked the photograph of that.
Why Did Obama Receive Dalai Lama Through White House’s Back Door? – OpEd – Eurasia Review . . ."Since assuming the position of President, Obama had previously hosted the Dalai Lama three times. Each time, China has objected.
"Instead of telling China firmly that he would meet the Dalai Lama, President Obama received the Dalai Lama on June 15 into the White House through the back door. President Obama has tried to keep the meeting without undue publicity and held the meeting behind the closed doors. Obama met the Dalai Lama in the Map Room instead of in the Oval office and he took care to ensure that the press would not be invited. Obviously Mr. Obama wanted to keep the news about his meeting the Dalai Lama as secret to the extent possible and to ensure that the photographs of the meeting and the images would not be flashed around the world.
"It is surprising that the President of USA, which claims itself to the torch bearer of freedom and pledged supporter for the cause of liberty and human dignity, does not have the courage to stand up to China and tell China in clear terms that the Dalai Lama has been sinned against and has not sinned." . . .
Now prepare for the press barrage against Trump and his administration over the major changes taking place and the encounter with Zelensky today. TD
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