http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/obama-benjamin-netanyahu-relationship-116361.html?hp=r2_4Obama bashes Bibi
The president goes further in criticizing Netanyahu and says hopes of making peace are 'dim.'
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
3/24/15 3:50 PM EDT
Updated 3/24/15 9:35 PM EDT
Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t even likable enough for President Barack Obama, but the U.S. leader says that’s not the point.
At a news conference Tuesday, Obama barely denied that they don’t get along saying that they have a “businesslike relationship” and then provided a calm, confident and, in his telling, complete dissection of just what’s wrong with the Israeli prime minister’s approach to the peace process and the Iran negotiations.
Hopes of Mideast peace, Obama said, are “dim,” and he refused to make any kind of commitment about what the American response would be to new Palestinian efforts seeking United Nations recognition.
“What we can’t do is pretend that there’s the possibility of something that’s not there, and we can’t continue to premise our public diplomacy based on something everyone knows is not going to happen,” Obama said.
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