Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that derogatory “hot mic” comments from President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are “indicative of the attitude and policies that this administration has had towards Israel.”
“I happen to be a great admirer of Prime Minister Netanyahu,” McCain said on Fox and Friends. “I’ve known him for years, and Israel is under more pressure and probably in more danger than they’ve been since the ’67 war and that kind of comment is not only not helpful, but indicative of some of the policies towards Israel that this administration has been part of.”
The Arizona Republican was referring to reports that during the G-20 summit, Obama and Sarkozy could be heard on an open mic complaining about Netanyahu, with Sarkozy calling the Israeli leader a liar and Obama responding, “You’re sick of him, but I have to deal with him every day.”
McCain said the “French have always been like that” toward the Israelis but suggested that the United States should know better.
“No one, not even [the] most ardent supporter of the president, can view the issue of Israeli-Palestinian issue and peace in the region as anything but a total failure as part of this … administration,” he said.
McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said if he were in Obama’s and Sarkozy’s position, he would first of all “fire” the aides that allowed the microphone mishap to take place.
(Source: Politico)
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Let’s not forget how days before election day 08, Obama attended a Jew hating party in LA hosted by his BLT cronies.
Whatever liberal Jews are still out should view this as a wake up call
The article above reports that Senator John McCain said, in part:
“No one, not even [the] most ardent supporter of the president, can view the issue of Israeli-Palestinian issue and peace in the region as anything but a total failure as part of this administration ….”
Well (as President Reagan might have said), in the 44 years since the ’67 War, there have been 28 years of Republican US presidents, and 16 years of Democratic US presidents, and the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate remains as stale as ever. The criticism of President Obama’s diplomatic and unknowingly public acquiescence to President Sarkozy’s unknowingly public insult to the Israeli prime minister – who has probably been called much worse by members of his own governing coalition, not to mention Israelis of every political and religious stripe – is a red herring (and probably not a particularly tasty one). This is a tempest in a teapot, nothing more.
Now McCain better watch his mic very carefully. Politics is one thing, but personal fealings aren’t known.