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Now, Netanyahu
is reportedly planning some personal payback.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Netanyahu will make
common cause with moderate Arab governments in order to sabotage Obama’s plan to
succeed Ban Ki-moon when the South Korean diplomat ends his term as United
Nations secretary-general on December 31 of this year.
Al-Jarida quoted sources as saying that Obama has already discussed the
issue of running for secretary-general with Democrats, Republicans, and Jewish
officials in the US.
The sources said that once Netanyahu got wind of Obama’s plans, the prime
minister began to make efforts to submarine what he has referred to as “the
Obama project.”
“Wasn’t eight years of having Obama in office enough?” Netanyahu is quoted in
the Kuwaiti daily as telling associates. “Eight years during which he ignored
Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us
hardships in the international arena.”
The newspaper cited the widely acknowledged fact that personal ties between
Netanyahu and Obama are frayed.
“Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst
president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states,” a
Netanyahu aide is quoted as saying.
A source close to Netanyahu did not deny to Al-Jarida that the premier
is aiming to “torpedo the Obama project,” noting that “his presidency was
characterized by [Washington’s] moving closer to the Muslim Brotherhood,
toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and attempts to ally itself with political
Islam.”
“Obama’s term is ending with him forging an alliance with Iran, coming to an
agreement with it on its nuclear program which in the end will result in a
similar scenario that took place with North Korea,” the aide said.
“Israel will not allow this to happen,” the source is quoted as saying. “It will
take all of the necessary steps to prevent Iran from manufacturing a nuclear
weapon either covertly or overtly.”
The prime minister’s associate told Al-Jarida that Netanyahu “sees an
opportunity to establish good relations based on shared interests with moderate
states from which Obama has moved away.”