Obama Not Terribly Happy with Netanyahu

If you were in the position of negotiation with a foreign prime minister, and progressive peace talks were starting to roll smoothly, wouldn't you find it irritating if that certain prime minister said a few objective things, collaborated with your opposing political party and absolutely halted any chance of progression in peaceful negotiations? Oh and adding to the fray wouldn't it be irritating if this was your ally? As of right now this is the situation between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A few weeks ago the Israeli Prime Minister came to the United States and gave a speech to many Congress members. This visit and speech had been suggested by  Speaker of the House John Boehner. This invitation was intended to demonstrate that foreign relations were excellent with Israel. Unfortunately, this also wasn't exactly kosher as any visit like this has to go through President Obama first. Republicans also didn't help the Netanyahu-Obama situation by sending a letter to Tehran, threatening to terminate negotiations over a Palestine two-state solution, and Iranian nuclear negotiations. These are the two issues that Obama and Netanyahu don't exactly see eye-to-eye on. Front and center is the Palestinian two-state solution that Netanyahu has done a total about face on, this makes this extremely awkward as the basis of the peace negotiations on the American side is a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel. So as of right now, President Obama is not exactly satisfied with what Prime Minister Netanyahu is saying and doing.

If anything is to be done with Israel and the United States, Obama and Netanyahu have to get along. Not watering this down to the point where it becomes kindergarten type cooperation, but these two heads of state need to start cooperating so that action can be taken and things can actually be done. Unfortunately Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been historically uncooperative with Obama because of his stance and his party stance on international issues, and instead has been more cooperative with the Republican side of things. There is a bright side to this though as Netanyahu has been showing signs of support and cooperation for President Obama on other problems, this could mean future agreements and forward action to get the ball rolling with other pressing issues.

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