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Netanyahu and Obama satire
November 9, 2009 - 10:23 AM | by: Michael TobinIt is unprecedented that an Israeli Prime Minister jumped on board a plane headed to the US, hoping for a meeting with the US President but nothing on the books. That is exactly what happened yesterday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boarded the private jet, his staff on board and no guarantee US President Barack Obama would not snub him. This frost on the relationship is related to Netanyahu’s defiant disregard for President Obama’s call to freeze settlement construction. The two never seemed to like each other much before that. Now with the Palestinian situation degrading once again, Netanyahu could use some support.
In the end, the meeting was booked for Monday evening. But the folly did not escape the rapier like pen of Israel’s political cartoonists. The Cartoon in Yedioth Ahronoth depicts Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sarah, popping by the White House. The caption translates to, “We were just in the Neighborhood.”
Haaretz Newspaper shows the Prime Minister telling the Taxi driver, “Wait here, I’m not sure they are home.”






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