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Romney Destroys Netanyahu's Big Week

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We have one person to thank for the fact that President Barack
Obama successfully let Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu know 'who's the boss'
House on Monday.

Thank you, Mitt Romney.

Imagine if things had worked out the way Netanyahu wanted
the economy was trending down and not up).

Under those circumstances, Bibi would have treated Obama the
way he treated President Clinton during the ridiculous Lewinsky brouhaha. He
Congress. For Bibi, who hated Clinton's alliance with the late Yitzhak Rabin
and his commitment to Rabin's vision, it was all 'happy days are here again.'

That was how Monday was supposed to be, too. Instead, Netanyahu

Even worse, it could cost him his job. Prime Minister
all but endorse his opponent, Yitzhak Rabin and bring about Shamir's defeat. AIPAC
Israeli people don't, because they live there and understand how much Israel

So that is why Monday was Bibi's terrible,
horrible, no good, very bad day.

Start with Obama's
to AIPAC. Netanyahu had asked that the United States redraw its "red
line" from actual Iranian development of a nuclear bomb to the mere capability
he thinks is right.

Netanyahu wanted Obama to agree that the diplomatic route is
dead; that sanctions can be utilized, but only to produce "crippling" pain on Iranians as
a prelude to war. Instead, Obama emphasized diplomacy,

Netanyahu wanted Obama to make clear that if Israel attacks
minister that "no Israeli government can tolerate" a nuclear weapon in Iranian
nothing unless the U.S. will join in the attack,

As President and Commander-in-Chief, I
time and circumstances demand it.

In other words, he understands that Israel will do what it
is going to do. But as president, he won't join in unless the U.S. is directly
threatened. Vice President Biden's idea that there must be "no daylight"
between Israeli and U.S. policies was noticeably absent.

It didn't get any better for Netanyahu when he
met with Obama at the White House.

Netanyahu tried hard to get Obama to go the Biden "no
daylight" route. But Obama wasn't buying. When Bibi came out with the
outlandish and chutzpah-laden line "we are you
and you are us," Obama was silent. His message was: "We believe that there is
still a window that allows a diplomatic solution to this issue."

No wonder Netanyahu seemed so deflated when he delivered his
of the Bible story
to use in his deliberations.)

It only got worse for Netanyahu today when Obama stated at a
press conference that diplomacy remains his preferred route. Obama spoke just
after the announcement
commence negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue.

Unlike last time when, at Netanyahu's insistence, the United
to the New York Times, the talks would
"help relieve pressure from Israel to use military force against Teheran."

was directly addressing the neocons:

I think there's no doubt that those who
one of those people.

Because what I've said is, is that we have
forward an international framework that is applying unprecedented pressure. The
and we've got the opportunity, even as we maintain that pressure, to see how it
plays out.

Netanyahu returns to Israel. From the perspective of
war but leaves feeling lonely. War is much less likely.
