Anti-Defamation League attacks Obama, Sarkozy. Calls exchange ‘unpresidential’

[Poll_Blind]

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

[truebrit71]

1. I agree with both Presidents. The ADL can STFU as far as I am concerned...

Netanyahu is a bully and a murderer...fuck him...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. What's defamatory about it, such that the ADL has to get involved?

Truth is a complete defense to defamation.

[Enrique]

3. ugh

I didn't even know they got themselves into the Ground Zero Mosque nonsense. They've gone beyond jumping the shark, they've brought in Ted McGinley.

[FrenchieCat]

4. I'm ignoring this story.

Because it is being blown out of perspective, and making it appear that
Pres. Obama was doing anything more then reacting to Sarkozi....

I think Netanyahu has had some negative things to say about our President,
not long ago, as did Mitt Romney. And I don't remember the ADL coming out with statements
condemning Netanyahu or Mitt for their fucked up attitude against the President.

Obama Paraded on Netanyahu’s Leash
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/09/obama-paraded-on-netanyahu%E2%80%99s-leash/

Video: Netanyahu lectures Obama on why Israel’s 1967 borders are indefensible
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/05/20/video-netanyahu-lectures-obama-on-why-israels-1967-borders-are-indefensible/

Listen to Mitt Romney: “President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. He has disrespected Israel and undermined its ability to negotiate peace. He has also violated a first principle of American foreign policy, which is to stand firm by our friends.”
http://www.thenation.com/blog/160848/obama-goes-aipac-while-netanyahu-howls

[JackRiddler]

5. ADL seems never to have learned that sometimes it's best not to stir the pot further.

[hifiguy]

6. Whiny, self-serving horseshit from the ADL.

Netanyahu is an inflamed boil on the buttocks of the world. Admitting this to be the truth is no crime.

[dtexdem]

7. Yeah, where do those presidents get off, speaking the truth like that?

If they had integrity, they would have said much worse about Nutty-yahoo.