President Obama will be blowing off Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli PM visits Washington in March, because he supposedly doesn’t want to deal with any appearance of political impropriety. John Kerry won’t be meeting with Netanyahu either, citing the same B.S. excuse:
Secretary Kerry will not meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu because of the proximity to the Israeli election — @statedeptspox
— Michelle Macaluso (@MichelleMacTV) January 22, 2015
This all sounds a little familiar to NRO’s Jim Geraghty:
Man, Obama and Kerry are treating Netanyahu's visit like it was a Paris rally for freedom of speech or something.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 22, 2015
Heh.
Maybe Kerry can make up for it with another soft rock concert or something. We hear Carly Simon is great at smoothing over international political tensions.
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