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And now, with Obama telling Israel that they have got to stop killing Iranian nuclear scientists, the question is even more relevant.

Via Israel National News: Report: US Pressures Israel, ‘Stop Killing Iranian Scientists’

President Barack Obama will not only pressure Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept the US framework for peace – but also to stop intervening in preventing a nuclear Iran….

CBS radio broadcaster Dan Raviv told listeners…that Obama will urge Netanyahu…for Israel to stop “assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists,” according to the daily. Raviv allegedly made the discovery while researching an upcoming book, and noted that Israeli intelligence agencies have been under immense pressure from the Obama administration to stop the assassination attempts for some time.

Several Iranian nuclear scientists have died over the past several years under mysterious circumstances, Channel 10 noted. Israel has been accused of killing Iranian nuclear scientists before, but they have never publicly admitted involvement.

Raviv claimed…that Israel is involved – and it particularly good at “flying under the radar….”

Isn’t it in our best interest to have Israel “take out” these nuclear scientists, and to deter others from joining their nuclear program?

So:

Whose side is Obama on?

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Washington Free Beacon: Report: Obama ‘Vetoed’ Israeli Strike on Iran

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Addendum by Maynard

Now it seems that Obama is demanding an apology from Israel. A “clarification” was not enough to sooth his ego.

“US still waiting for apology from Israeli Defense Minister Ya’alon for Obama remarks”

The United States is still waiting for an apology from Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon over critical comments that he made about President Barack Obama earlier this week.

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said Friday that the US is “disappointed with the lack of an apology” by Ya’alon. Psaki added that the US still had “concerns” about Ya’alon’s “pattern of behavior.”

Psaki said that an apology from Ya’alon would be a “natural next step.”

“His comments, as we’ve stated a couple times, don’t reflect the true nature of our relationship with Israel,” she said.

On Tuesday the US used unprecedented language to condemn Ya’alon after he continued weeks of criticism of US President Barack Obama, and members of his foreign policy team.

“We were shocked by Moshe Ya’alon’s comments, which seriously call into question his commitment to Israel’s relationship with the United States,” a senior administration official told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday night. “Moreover, this is part of a disturbing pattern in which the Defense Minister disparages the US Administration, and insults its most senior officials.”

Among the impugned remarks that Ya’alon made on Tuesday at Tel Aviv University, was that in light of developments on crises in the Middle East, relations with China and with Russia over the annexation of Crimea, Obama’s “image in the world is feebleness.”…

Minister Ya’alon is merely echoing what we all know to be true. Obama’s problem — the free world’s problem — is that Obama has shown every indication that he will cling to his fantasy world, and punish anyone who refuses to share his suicidal delusions, until the bitter, catastrophic end.

From Peggy Noonan’s article of 2/21 (before the Russians moved in troops):

…It is one thing to be militarily prudent, it is another to be, in expressing our sentiments, timorous and detached.Here is what Mr. Obama said Wednesday, as the moment approached crisis in Kiev: The U.S. holds the Ukrainian government “primarily responsible” for restoring peace. “We expect peaceful protesters to remain peaceful.” The U.S. is “monitoring very closely the situation.” The Ukrainian military should “not step into what should be a set of issues that can be resolved by civilians.” The U.S. will continue to “engage with all sides.”

With all due respect, this was not so much calibrated as meaningless, crouching and process-driven. Which side are we on?

The president then warned there will be “consequences” if people “step over the line.” This sounded like a man who is peripheral to the drama insisting he is very, very relevant. Is this like the “red line” in Syria that Mr. Obama warned Bashar Assad he’d best not cross, and he crossed it, and nothing happened?

It is embarrassing when the president makes statements like this. He is like the father who poses on the bottom of the stairs and says in a deep voice, “Don’t make me come up there!” And for a moment there’s silence and then the kids erupt in giggles. Because there’s no price to pay if he comes up there, and because he doesn’t come up.

I thought, as he spoke, that he is destroying the American brand in the world.