The New York Times: Obama will never improve relations with Netanyahu

President Obama is annoyed and disappointed by the massive support that Israeli voters have provided to the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu parties and is about to take steps that will weaken the position of the Jewish state in the international arena.

The New York Times columnists Helen Cooper and Michael Shire write about this.

“Relations between US President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deteriorated long before Netanyahu won the Knesset election on Tuesday.

The elections in the White House were watched very closely in real time.

Netanyahu won as a result of an aggressive electoral campaign, opposing the creation of a Palestinian state and Obama’s potential “nuclear deal” with Iran.

It is absolutely clear that now the question of whether the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister will be able to establish normal relations is simply removed from the agenda.

The White House criticized Netanyahu’s pre-election rhetoric and, above all, its appeal to its supporters to leave the house and vote in order to neutralize the massive influx of Arabs to polling stations.

Obama's aides called Netanyahu's move an attempt to "isolate Arab-Israeli citizens" and said the Likud leader's call was inconsistent with the values ​​that bind Israel and the United States...

After Netanyahu’s harsh statements against the creation of a Palestinian state bordering Israel, several White House officials said that the Obama administration can now support a resolution of the United Nations Security Council that endorsed the principles of creating “two states for two peoples”.

Chief among these principles is Israel’s retreat to the borders of 1967 of the year ...

Most American foreign policy experts say that Israel will have to cede a large part of the territory occupied during the Six Day War in exchange for maintaining large blocks of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. ”