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Post by confuzzled dude Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:41 pm

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he takes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “at his word” for saying that an independent Palestinian state will never co-exist with Israel as long as he is in office, yet another sign of the strained relations between longtime allies.

Netanyahu has backpedaled since he stunned the U.S. and the international community by announcing that dramatic policy reversal on the eve of his re-election Tuesday. But in his first public comments on the election outcome, Obama suggested that he does not believe the Israeli leader’s softer position on the Palestinian state issue.

“We take him at his word when he said that it wouldn’t happen during his prime ministership, and so that’s why we’ve got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region,” Obama told The Huffington Post in an interview released Saturday.
Obama also criticized Netanyahu for saying as the election neared that Arab voters were heading to the polls “in droves.” Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest previously denounced the rhetoric as a “cynical Election Day tactic” and a “pretty transparent effort to marginalize Arab Israeli votes.”

“We indicated that that kind of rhetoric was contrary to what is the best of Israel’s traditions,” Obama said, adding that Israeli democracy is premised on everyone being treated equally and fairly. “If that is lost, then I think that not only does it give ammunition to folks who don’t believe in a Jewish state, but it also, I think, starts to erode the name of democracy in the country.”
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Post by southindian Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:10 pm

Ok.

The dosas are getting cold.
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