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[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations and appeared designed to show Mr Netanyahu how low his stock had fallen in Washington after he refused to back down in a row over Jewish construction in east Jerusalem.

The Israeli prime minister arrived at the White House on Tuesday evening brimming with confidence that the worst of the crisis in his country's relationship with the United States was over.


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Over the previous two days, he had been feted by senior Republicans and greeted warmly by members of Congress. He had also received a standing ovation from the American Israel Public Affairs Affairs Committee, one of the most influential lobby groups in the United States.

But Mr Obama was less inclined to be so conciliatory. He immediately presented Mr Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands designed both to the end the feud with his administration and to build Palestinian confidence ahead of the resumption of peace talks. Key among those demands was a previously-made call to halt all new settlement construction in east Jerusalem.

When the Israeli prime minister stalled, Mr Obama rose from his seat declaring: "I'm going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls."

As he left, Mr Netanyahu was told to consider the error of his ways. "I'm still around," Mr Obama is quoted by Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper as having said. "Let me know if there is anything new."

For over an hour, Mr Netanyahu and his aides closeted themselves in the Roosevelt Room on the first floor of the White House to map out a response to the president's demands.

Sucks when you go beyond the capacity of the title box without realizing.

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Although the two men then met again, at 8.20 pm, for a brief second meeting, it appeared that they failed to break the impasse. White House officials were quoted as saying that disagreements remained. Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, added: "Apparently they did not reach an understanding with the United States."

It was the second time this month that Mr Netanyahu has been at the receiving end of a US dinner-time snub.

A fortnight ago, Joe Biden the US vice president, arrived 90 minutes late for a dinner Mr Netanyahu hosted in Jerusalem after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new homes in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement in the city's predominantly Arab east.

Erupting in fury, the United States described the decision to expand Ramat Shlomo as an "insult" that undermined Mr Biden's peace making efforts and demanded that it be reversed. Palestinians see east Jerusalem, captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War, as their future capital and regard any Jewish building there as a barrier to a peace settlement.

Mr Obama's mood further soured in the minutes before his meeting with Mr Netanyahu after it emerged that approval had been given for an even more contentious Jewish building project in the heart of one of east Jerusalem's Palestinian suburbs.

Sending a clear message of his displeasure, Mr Obama treated his guest to a series of slights. Photographs of the meeting were forbidden and an Israeli request to issue a joint-statement once it was over were turned down.

"There is no humiliation exercise that the Americans did not try on the prime minister and his entourage," Israel's Maariv newspaper reported. "Bibi received in the White House the treatment reserved for the president of Equatorial Guinea."

That's right, he got bitch slapped, and he can suck it!

Word!

Know your place Bibi.

Israel may be at its end. This is fantastic news. Thanks OP!

I did not know Obama had the balls.

If the shoe fits...

We have to keep in mind that this might be more "drama" for the masses and nothing more.

Damn it.

You are right. Giving us cover for an Iran offensive.

Bastards.

The funniest thing about all this is that jews voted for Obama by over 85%.

This only demonstrates BO's arrogance! He must not have liked Netanyahu or he would've given him a framed photo of himself.

Statements like that are stupid.

It's that mentality that ties criticism to Israel policy with anti-Semitism.

Your an idiot if you think that statement is stupid. I guarantee 99% of American jews support the state of Israel. Guarantee it.

Poll: 56% of American Jews think U.S. should strike Iran

[link to www.haaretz.com]

Best I was able to find to back up the claim.

Over half of American jews think the US should start a war with Iran! lmao. Dumb n00b.

My point is that anti-Israel = anti Jew is stupid and generalizations such as your are not helpful. Actually many younger Jews are very oppositional to Israeli policy.

And by the way, that poll was conducted at the end of 2008, before a crap load of jew propaganda.

Bullshit

Back atcha.

Unlike you I went to an American University. I have personally seen the jewish students ripping down posters of the pro-Palestinian groups.

You = dumbass n00b

Unlike you, my college degree allows me to comprehend that "jewish students ripping down posters of the pro-Palestinian groups" does not equate to all Jews.

Obama popularity´s is imploding around the world.

The rest of the world have seen Obama as a different face for the same imperialist US policies of the last century. A black guy with a good rethoric but without nothing substantial to offer.

This is changing. Obama is proving he has balls and is telling for first time some hard truths to the israelis. If Obama can stand against the zionists, the entire world will rally behind him. I´m afraid he will be targeted and in the end, he will be killed like JFK was for standing against so much lobbys.

interesting thoughts.

Did he get the complimentary flip flops and back-door-trash tour?

From one master to another. Don't think we're finally free. We'll go from being subservient to Israel to subservient to Islam.

AWESOME

Relax everyone, it is all just part of the plan.