Obama recently was reported to have said that Israel "doesn't know what its best interests are. Bibi hit back:
A day after US columnist Jeffrey Goldberg quoted US
President Barack Obama as saying that Israel under Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu does not know what is in its own best interest,
Netanyahu visited the Gaza border Wednesday, was told that December was
the quietest month in the last 12 years, and essentially replied to
Obama: “Yes I do.” “I think everyone understands that only Israel’s citizens will be the
ones to determine who faithfully represents Israel’s vital interests,”
Netanyahu said on a visit to an army base near Gaza in his first direct
response to Obama’s reported criticism. “Over the last four years we
stood up against strong pressure, and I will continue to do so for
Israel’s securit
Sen. Rand Paul agrees with Netanyahu:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., described President Obama as
“arrogant and presumptuous” for reportedly claiming to have a better
understanding of that country’s best interests than Prime Minister
Netanyahu. Paul, who just returned from a trip to Israel, followed with a more
general statement. “[I]t’s not American politicians’ business to be
dictating the answers,” he said. “I think it’s just presumptuous and
arrogant of us to think, well, we’re going to go down to a roadmap of
Jerusalem and decide where the neighborhoods can be expanded?”
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