Obama’s UN Ambassador Fires Back at Perry & Romney: Don’t Play Politics With Diplomacy
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 5:01 PM
This is just priceless.
Ambassador Susan Rice is upset the Governor Perry and Governor Romney complaining about Barack Obama’s anti-Israel positions.
This offended Rice.
ABC reported:
President Obama faces a diplomatic thicket at the UN this week, and it’s drawing fire from the Republicans who want to replace him. This morning on “GMA,” Obama’s UN Ambassador fired back.
Saying the Republicans were “playing politics” with international issues, Susan Rice responded to Mitt Romney, who called the President’s handling of Palestinian statehood an “unmitigated diplomatic disaster,” and Rick Perry, who suggested the U.S. should cut off funding for the Palestinian Authority if it continues to pursue a UN vote on statehood.
“I think Governor Perry ought to really consider the real world implications of that for Israel. Because the security assistance that the United States provides the Palestinian Authority benefits Israel directly and Israelis are well aware of that,” Rice said.
Twice during our interview Rice accused Republicans of “playing politics” with important international issues.
“But the reality is George, from his second day in office President Obama has been committed to bringing the Palestinian and Israelis to a final agreement so that there is an independent Palestinian state living side by side with the Jewish state of Israel,” she told me. “He’s done so and will continue to do so first and foremost because it is in our national interest to do so, it’s the right thing also for Israel and for the Palestinians.”
“So for those who want to play politics they’ll play politics. But the reality is Israel has had no better partner than this administration,” Rice said.
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Paddy commented:
More of the old “do what I tell you, not what I do” crap. Obama was hyper-critical of everything Bush did including foreign policy initiatives during his 2008 campaign.
Rusty_MonkeyBars commented:
Rice and her Boss better start getting used to the flack headed their way.
There will be no gloves in this coming fight.
bg commented:
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Abba Eban:
the June 1967 map represented Israel’s “Auschwitz” borders
David Bedein
When Abba Eban, appeared at the United Nations following the Six
Day war, Israel’s foreign minister, he described the fragility of Israel’s
1949-1967 map as Israel’s “Auschwitz” lines.
Abba Eban, who died on November 17, 2002, will forever
be remembered as Israel’s most articulate foreign minister
The following statement by Abba Eban was cited in the Jerusalem
Post of August 18, 1995 by Jerusalem Post columnist Moshe Kohn:
“We have openly said that the map will never again be the same as on June 4, 1967. For us, this is a matter of security and of principles. The June map is for us equivalent to insecurity and danger. I do not exaggerate when I say that it has for us something of a memory of Auschwitz. We shudder when we think of what would have awaited us in the circumstances of June, 1967, if we had been defeated; with Syrians on the mountain and we in the valley, with the Jordanian army in sight of the sea, with the Egyptians who hold our throat in their hands in Gaza. This is a situation which will never be repeated in history.”
- Abba Eban, Israeli Statesman, in Der Spiegel, November 5, 1969
(with thanks to Dr. Aaron Lerner and to Clarence Wagner for locating
this item)
On July 26, 1978, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, whose parents and older brother were murdered by the Nazis, commented on Israeli Televsion about Abba Eban ‘s use of the term “Auschwitz lines”, when he described the June 4, 1967 map, saying that “you have never heard such an extreme term from me . . . because there will be no Auschwitz here”.
Yet Abba Eban had a way of presenting Israel’s case
in the context of the traumas of Jewish history.
==
FurryGuy commented:
But Democrats never have a problem criticizing a Republican’s foreign policy when it suits their political objectives.
Yeah, more “two legs bad, four legs good” mindlessness from the progressives.
Tom63010 commented:
It’s an Obama world: up is down and down is up!
Beachbum commented:
With the NY upset election victory of a Republican … Obama and his gang are trying to pull the dead Jewish bodies from under the bus they’ve been throwing them under over the past 3 years and are trying to revive them so as to make Obama look like he actually cares for the Jewish people. Good luck with that one boy wonder.
WTFPRESIDENT commented:
hahahahahaha what an idiot….like obumba hasn’t been playing politics himself!
jimg commented:
International diplomacy is nothing BUT politics, you stupid bint.
That’s all it is.
Jeff commented:
President Photobomber!!!
Jenny commented:
Susan rice is a demon, and she deserves to go where demons go. Karma for Hillary.
Opaobie commented:
Obama’s entire foreign policy is political. What hypocrisy. Sadly for us and for freedom-loving people everywhere, he is on the wrong side of every issue.
Got Billy Ayers on Speed Dial commented:
I believe Susan Rice works in a hostile work environment.
StrangernFiction commented:
We shouldn’t be giving aid to the Palestinian Authority period.
Swifty commented:
Inform her that this is America and we still have free speech, despite this administration’s best efforts to kill that right and others.
Redwine commented:
Susan Rice is a monumental idiot and Israel-hater.
RKflorida commented:
Don’t play politics with diplomacy??? Diplomacy is politics you idiot.
Bananna commented:
She’s the Ivy League School dope that little barry brought into be our rep to the U.N because she would never allow genocide to take place again, except when it applies to Israel….
tommy mc donnell commented:
don’t you dare have an opinion different from us, never mind express it. what do you think this is a free country.
Bananna commented:
And she looks like she hasn’t washed her hair in 4 days. Its a pre-requisite for belonging in the “O” admin.. great
gee! commented:
How many times has this Israel hater thrown israel under the bus at the United Nations?
Molon Labe commented:
After giving 4 billion dollars to the Palestinian Authority Obama is going to have his minions lecture us about playing politics?
With Obama you come to review the lies and stay for the steroid fueled dementia.
donh commented:
Obama is playing with FIRE. He has RETREATED from his secret promises made to Abbas . Obama cowarded out of helping the Palistinians after he lost of the jewish vote in NYC. He could not stand the heat. Obama put his re-election before the larger struggle of jihad. By foresaking Abbas at the UN, Obama has put the United States and Israel in a high state of emergency terrorists will go violant in reprisals. Obama delivered a message of extreme WEAKNESS. He failed to give the strong message our military would supress Islamic aggression in the region. Surely mass DEATH is coming to the Holy Land once again after many years now of a tensive peace.
Marmo the Greater commented:
Bwahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaa *wheeze* haahaahaahaahaahaaaaaa!! *gasp*
This administration sure brings teh funny! But I won’t really miss it come Jan 2013.
Jackson commented:
She has rocks in her head.
#1AMERICAN commented:
news flash…wake up beeeotch…the demoturds and omuslum have been playing politics for 3 years
sifty commented:
Another unqualified clueless egghead professor installed by Obama the SCoaMF to manage America’s surrender. She looks and sounds like she’s been inhaling too many magic markers between classes at the junior college.
sifty commented:
Obama will fire her and install Louis Farrakhan as UN Ambassador.
redriverstuff commented:
“But the reality is Israel has had no better partner than this administration.” Oh please. Ask many Jews, even here in liberal California, and you’ll get a completely different response. And those who I know happen to own small businesses so they are being hit at on all levels.
Bobbi commented:
Susan, maybe you should ask PM Netanyahu if he agrees that the Obama is the best ally he has.
SpideyTerry commented:
Wasn’t Susan Rice the one that suggested invading Israel and forcibly disarming them?
vagabond trader commented:
Well lets go to that vid of your boss and his pali friends piling on Israel/dem Jooooos. No politics there huh.
Just for extra interest, look where the link is from. lolol.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31688_LA_Times_Hiding_Incriminating_Video_of_Obama_with_Radical_Palestinian_Update-_Ayers_and_Dohrn_Attended_Khalidi_Party_with_Obama/comments/#ctop
Bananna commented:
And when Louis shows up at the U.N. his hair will be nicely trimmed and he will proceed to denigrate the Jews and everybody else who doesn’t have such a great tan. Oh, and people who don’t appreciate bow ties…
SeniorD commented:
This is coming from someone who politicked her way to the UNAmbassadorship and take control of foreign policy which used to be the responsibility of SECSTATE?
One word: puhh-leeze!
Wanna know who one of the Trust Fund Socialists is?
Rose commented:
You bet she hollered! Squealed like a stuck PIG.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28769&hd=&size=1&l=e
Letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota to Jeff Blankfort on the Israel Lobby
Jeff Blankfort
December 4, 2006
The following letter was sent to me today by James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, and he readily complied when I asked that I be allowed to forward it to my list because what he had to say is of the utmost importance, given last month’s election and all the new faces in Congress, and the immediate previous posting to you and James Petras’s article earlier in the day..
Dear Jeff:
I just finished reading your critique of Noam Chomsky’s positions in an e mail sent to me by Tony Saidy.
——————————————–
James was previous Representative, then Senator, before Tom Daschle, and Daschle’s former boss and mentor – in South Dakota – a strong Muslim.
Some in Intelligence – which source name I lost in a previous computer, which crashed – said that James used Tom to pass notes to Obama in 2008 – hand carried, at least 4 known – so there is no record.
I heard that on Charlie Jones, Texas Overnight out of Dallas, KRLD AM 1080 in November 2008 – a long while before Obama offered Tom the Sec of Health Dept position.
I’d never heard of James Abourezk before that Nov. 2008 – and went hunting on the internet for who he might be – and found this letter at that point!
jb books commented:
High octane stupid
workingclass artist commented:
OY!
Valerie commented:
You mean like Nancy Pelosi, Jimmy Carter, and John F’n Kerry during the Bush administration?
gus commented:
Dearest Susan.
FVCK YOU. We are about to shiitcan you back to where you came from.
Until then,
Have a nice day.
Sincerely
Gus.
NJK commented:
President Obama? Where’s the Kenyan’s real birth certificate?
Where’s the money he stole from the Treasury?
He knew about Fast and Furious, we know he did, you marxist Rice!
Ruebacca commented:
I don’t care about Palistinen.
DavidD commented:
But there already is an independent Palestinian state living side by side with the Jewish state of Israel–it’s called Jordan.
Greg commented:
She is fluent in speaking Odogma.
driguana commented:
Isn’t interesting that when you get these intelligentia types outside of their ivory covered walls, they aren’t very intelligent?!
owl commented:
I love that Perry and Romney are giving it back to Obama. Only fair considering the way he and the Dems carried on about Bush’s foreign policy. Gig em.
Rose commented:
You should hear Juan Williams – “Nobody is asking Israel to back off!” whine whine whine!
Gee, Fox – Why don’t ONE of you guys man up and point out that Israel isn’t trying to DESTROY any other Nation, or ethnic group ENTIRELY off the face of the earth, like the so-called fake “palestinians” are, the Jews!
Stupid Marxist Donkey Jerk!
MrGoodWench commented:
Because the security assistance that the United States provides the Palestinian Authority benefits Israel directly
+++++++++++
Really ? Is that what you call missile attacks and suicide bombings on Israelis ?
BENEFITS TO ISRAEL ?
Nancy commented:
As Rush has pointed out, the people who work for Obama do so because their ideology is the same as his.
I hope their fate is, too.
Jaimo commented:
Wow, I’m actually surprised she got off her knees to make that statement. I’m impressed. Were any of the words garbled?
FurryGuy commented:
Another “we’re smarter than you” ivory tower intellectual lecturing us rubes they are our betters.
Strange, we’ve been told repeatedly it is (R)s who are fighting a crass, class war.
Militant Conservative commented:
ROFLMAO this is the best they can do?!!!
Geez no wonder the left is tired of defending
Ignorance and stupidity, kinda hard to defend that.
Obama, failure squared. Kinda affirmative inaction
Dumbass on steroids. Whatta putz.
Powder is dry
MrGoodWench commented:
Hey anyone remember when Nazi Policei took that muslim from MN and other haters like him to Syria with her , to conduct her own foreign policy when she became speaker, when Bush was President ?
What was that ? Politics or diplomacy ?
gus commented:
I have a question for the stupit b!tch. Hey Libtard, why are you getting involved in the Presidential campaign. Isn’t that what POLTICIS IS?? Susie, don’t you have some MUZZTARD ass to kiss or something?? Is all of your SMART DIPLOMACY finished??
MrGoodWench commented:
gus commented:
I have a question for the stupit b!tch. Hey Libtard, why are you getting involved in the Presidential campaign.
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bcuz she speaks truth to power
gosh! commented:
This is the same idiot who said” Gadhafi’s forces have been issued viagra,to help them better rape the people of Libya. Whats with this bunch in this adminastation they are suppose to be much smarter than the rest of population but every time they open their mouths they prove other wise.
Hobbitually conservative commented:
Just play along…. we like Israel this week.
Besides, they just lost an election to Jews last week. Whoops.
Rachelle commented:
Another Affirmative Action idiot in the Obama regime.
BS61 commented:
What is GMA?
What are the ratings?
I tell everyone I know to stop watching the MSM!
MAJ Mike commented:
But the Lib-Cong have said in the past to “…question authority…” and that “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism!!”
I will stand with Israel.
L.E. Liesner commented:
This woman makes a box of rocks look smart. Israel is completely surrounded by the enemy, and they sure don’t need this administration attacking them with cheap shots every time they turn around. Idi Amin had more diplomacy then this whole administration will ever have, in other words nil to none.
JKB commented:
Don’t play politics with diplomacy? You mean like facilitating the export of weapons by gangs to a country that is overrun with violence? That wasn’t even politics, it was a very dangerous effort to create an excuse for gun control in this country.
lol commented:
the anti israel libtards are in panic mode after NY 9.
arnonerik commented:
If Obama was pro-American in his foreign policy and supported our traditional allies, I would not criticize his diplomatic efforts. I’m sorry, however, but you Progressives lost me when you began apologizing to and supporting our enemies. Thanks to this administration we are perceived by the world as unreliable and weak.
By the way, calling what Obama has initiated “diplomacy” is a stretch.
mcc commented:
Here’s something I just learned that touches my heart. And the suggested “pairing” at the end of the piece actually occurred to me for some reason when I heard him say he wouldn’t be running for reelection the other day…Hmmm…
http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2011/09/it-was-one-of-those-great-only-in-america-judeo-christian-moments.html
Freddy commented:
I consider Susan Rice to be an ignorant fool that should have never been confirmed as any sort of ambassador.
Tell me Susan, as you sit in the cesspool of hate in the ‘UN Human Rights committee’ and watch Amadislamist call Israel the worst violators on the planet and demand their immediate extermination, will you nod in agreement like you did last time?
jorgen commented:
Another Odumbo appointee. Give her an iPod with Perry’s speech on Odumbo’s Israel politics so she could learn something. While she is listening she at least is not doing any damage.
SSBN 627(B) commented:
Sgt Hulka’s Big Toe.
President Potemkin commented:
The UN isn’t a political organization? Who knew?
eaglewingz08 commented:
Don’t play politics with diplomacy? How about don’t play politics with war, democrats? How about don’t play politics with national security, democrats? Liberal Democrats are so vile and hypocritical most of the time, you need a barf bag just to try to get through their talking points.
BS61 commented:
Susan Rice is an idiot! http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2009/11/obama-met-with-salahis-in-2005-theyre-linked-to-obamas-radical-pal-rashid-khalidi/
Jerry C commented:
Doesn’t she know that NObama cannot do everything he wants until God allows it? NObama cannot force Israel to a peace treaty until he’s been revealed as the Anti-Christ at the Abomination of Desolation. That would be when NObama goes to the Jerusalem Temple Mount, sits on the throne and proclaims himself to be god. Hasn’t happened yet so NObama cannot rule like he wants to. She doesn’t know her master like she should.
Stoshio commented:
She’s a liberal. And liberalism is a mental disorder.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
“But the reality is George, from his second day in office President Obama has been committed to bringing the Palestinian and Israelis to a final agreement so that there is an independent Palestinian state living side by side with the Jewish state of Israel,”
= = = = = =
“Final agreement”
vs
“Final solution” ?
(The difference between the two is merely … semantics.)