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Jewish Democrats are sounding a bit riled up at the prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin \u201cBibi\u201d Netanyahu getting involved in our country\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t blame them. Bibi is pals with Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee. They go back a long way together, to when they were up and comers back east; Netanyahu spent many of his formative years in the U.S. and ran in the same circles as Romney back in the day.<\/p>\n

Now Bibi\u2019s pal is running for president against Democratic incumbent Barack Obama, with whom Netanyahu has a less-than-cuddly relationship \u2013 or so it\u2019s been reported.<\/p>\n

Never mind, of course, that President Obama has declared this nation\u2019s unequivocal support of Israel, or that he has declared that Iran \u2013 Israel\u2019s arch-enemy \u2013 must not not obtain nuclear weapons, or that our military alliance with Israel is as strong as it\u2019s ever been. Romney is chastising the president for declining to meet with Netanyahu while the Israelis PM is here to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s apparent desire to see Romney elected seems to have rattled some Democrats, who are suggesting that Netanyahu needs to keep his opinions to himself. Netanyahu knows enough about the American political system to understand that he has no role to play, any more than this country should dictate whom the Israelis want to see govern them.<\/p>\n

My guess is that he\u2019ll be circumspect from now until Election Day. He\u2019d better, especially if the president\u2019s lead in all the major polls holds up and he is re-elected. Netanyahu does not want to antagonize the leader of his nation\u2019s major world ally and benefactor.<\/p>\n\n

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http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/defcon-hill\/policy-and-strategy\/251031-jewish-dems-warn-netanyahu-to-butt-out-of-us-election Jewish Democrats are sounding a bit riled up at the prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin \u201cBibi\u201d Netanyahu getting involved in our country\u2019s presidential election. I can\u2019t blame them. Bibi is pals with Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee. They go back a long way together, to when they were up and comers back … Continue reading Memo to Bibi: Butt out<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}