{"id":6931,"date":"2014-10-30T03:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T03:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2014-10-30T03:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T03:43:21","slug":"who-said-this-about-bibi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6931","title":{"rendered":"Who said this about Bibi?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A White House official called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a &#8220;chickens**t&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all we know at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea: How about for once we find out who did the name-calling? Bring this individual out from the shadows and have him or her explain the reference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2nfdtRZVlg\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/222284-us-israel-relations-hit-new-low\/\">US, Israel relations hit new low<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;US, Israel relations hit new low&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/222284-us-israel-relations-hit-new-low\/embed\/#?secret=Iuk3XbHcjx#?secret=2nfdtRZVlg\" data-secret=\"2nfdtRZVlg\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing that&#8217;s said behind closed doors all the time in Washington, D.C., and more than likely in Jerusalem as well.<\/p>\n<p>I only can imagine what some of Netanyahu&#8217;s more strident inner circle members think of President Barack Obama or perhaps the Congress and what he or she might be saying about all of them in private.<\/p>\n<p>This little term of non-endearment, however, has been let loose and has poisoned &#8212; perhaps &#8212; the sometimes-testy relationship between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>And just when it had been reported that Netanyahu actually had expressed some warm feelings toward Barack Obama, well, <em>this<\/em> happens.<\/p>\n<p>OK, if we&#8217;re not going to learn the name of the individual, perhaps someone on the inside &#8212; perhaps the press secretary, Josh Earnest &#8212; can tell us at what level this individual operates. Cabinet level? Sub-Cabinet? A member of &#8220;diplomatic&#8221; corps, for crying out loud? Hey, was it a national security team member? Someone from the Joint Chiefs of Staff?<\/p>\n<p>We need to know who said it and why?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the president ought to get on the phone and call his pal Bibi and tell him that the potty-mouth individual was speaking for himself or herself.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe the president should assure the prime minister that he &#8212; the leader of the Free World &#8212; himself didn&#8217;t say it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A White House official called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a &#8220;chickens**t&#8221;? That&#8217;s all we know at the moment. Here&#8217;s an idea: How about for once we find out who did the name-calling? Bring this individual out from the shadows and have him or her explain the reference. 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