tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4135523531592464320..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Did Bibi Spy on Barack? Easy Answer? Of Course.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-5288422094903337292015-03-24T16:40:25.817-07:002015-03-24T16:40:25.817-07:00"Actions on the Israeli side"
Well, sort..."Actions on the Israeli side"<br />Well, sort of. In this relationship it's hard to tell who's who, in a way. Netanyahu seems to be owned lock, stock and barrel by Sheldon Adelson, who's American, and strongly Republican. Ultimately the whole thing seems to come down to Adelson's decision to use his Israeli asset/s to do Republican politics, thus redefining Israel as the enemy of the Democratic party. Honestly, if I were running Mossad I'd have that man assassinated--inadvertently he's probably the biggest danger to the Israeli establishment there has ever been.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43041783045371178642015-03-24T14:14:34.203-07:002015-03-24T14:14:34.203-07:00I wasn't at all surprised about the spying on ...I wasn't at all surprised about the spying on the US by Israel, that is nothing new. I will though say that finding out there is a claim that Bibi used that information and brought it to the US GOP Congressional leadership to undercut the President's Iran policy, THAT I found a bit surprising and new. Bibi is clearly interfering in the internal politics of the USA in ways no prior Israeli PM ever dared, and I have to wonder just how much this is going to come back to bite him and the State of Israel in the backside. <br /><br />I've been watching the lockstep of American policy on Israel for decades, and this is the first time in all those many years where I've started to wonder whether some real cracks are actually appearing between them, and this due to the actions on the Israeli side. Bibi may have chosen what he felt was the right course for his domestic political career, and he may also have chosen those he feels his natural allies within the GOP to side with (which given his actions in the 2012 elections was already pushing it) are his only real concern, but one of the main reasons Israel has gotten away with so much is the unified support in American domestic politics for it. What Bibi is doing places that in greater doubt than I've ever seen it.<br /><br />I don't know where this is going, but that the Obama WH leaked not just the spying but what it appears Bibi did with the information in trying to manipulate American domestic politics I find significant and something that clearly shows great displeasure. Whether it becomes something more substantive in how it affects American ME/Isreali political calculations and policies, time will tell, but it does seem to me to be one of the rare times where it may well be more than just superficial conflicts between the two nations.Scotianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284856315992405261noreply@blogger.com