From
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/11/08/3090190/adl-calls-sarkozy-obama-exchange-unpresidential">JTA:
The Anti-Defamation League called a reported exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama disparaging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "decidedly unpresidential."
According to reports of their conversation at the Nov. 3 G20 summit in Cannes, which was overheard by reporters via an open microphone, the French president said, “I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.” Obama reportedly replied, “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day.”
"President Obama’s response to Mr. Sarkozy implies that he agrees with the French leader," ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement issued Tuesday. "In light of the revelations here, we hope that the Obama Administration will do everything it can to reassure Israel that the relationship remains on a sure footing and to reinvigorate the trust between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, which clearly is not what it should be.
"What is sad is that we now have to worry to what extent these private views inform foreign policy decisions of the U.S. and France -- two singularly important players in the peace process," he said.
More at the link! For those wishing to read more of Foxman's disingenuous hand-wringing,
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/6158_62.htm">here is the article at the ADL's website.
Interestingly, the ADL has decided to expand the scope of it's organization to include things like
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2009/05/04/192803/adl-poll-israelis-want-attack-on-iran/">publishing polls showing that Israelis want to attack Iran and shamefully coming out
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/CvlRt_32/5820_32.htm">against the "Mosque" at Ground Zero- both of which have landed the ADL in hot water with other American Jewish organizations who say the ADL is pushing a right-wing agenda.
Since the ADL just published a
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/6154_12.htm">report indicating that America is in the "vicegrip" of anti-Semitism, you'd think they'd spend their time doing something a little more productive than acting as Netanyahu's proxies in the US.
PB