Biden part II: Rolling back the drama http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/biden-part-ii-rolling-back-the-drama/ Some of the most damning reports emerging from last week’s Biden-in-Israel flap were, not surprisingly, anonymously sourced. en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2010 2010-03-17T;03:53:00-05:00 Comment by Yosef Hartuv yosefandmelody@gmail.com On the other hand Jeffrey Goldberg has another item from his White House connections, posted and addressed by Noah Pollak. http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-officials-relax-were-just-trying.html Obama Officials: Relax, We’re Just Trying to Break up Bibi’s Coalition --Jeffrey Goldberg spoke with White House officials today and posted this report. So what is the goal? The goal is force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government Livni’s centrist Kadima Party (he has already tried to do this, but too much on his terms) and form a broad, 68-seat majority in Knesset… Obama knows that this sort of stable, centrist coalition is the key to success. He would rather, I understand, not have to deal with Netanyahu at all — people near the President say that, for one thing, Obama doesn’t think that Netanyahu is very bright, and there is no chemistry at all between the two men — but he’d rather have a Netanyahu who is being pressured from his left than a Netanyahu who is being pressured from the right. On the other hand Jeffrey Goldberg has another item from his White House connections, posted and addressed by Noah Pollak.
http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-officials-relax-were-just-trying.html Obama Officials: Relax, We’re Just Trying to Break up Bibi’s Coalition --Jeffrey Goldberg spoke with White House officials today and posted this report.

So what is the goal? The goal is force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government Livni’s centrist Kadima Party (he has already tried to do this, but too much on his terms) and form a broad, 68-seat majority in Knesset…

Obama knows that this sort of stable, centrist coalition is the key to success. He would rather, I understand, not have to deal with Netanyahu at all — people near the President say that, for one thing, Obama doesn’t think that Netanyahu is very bright, and there is no chemistry at all between the two men — but he’d rather have a Netanyahu who is being pressured from his left than a Netanyahu who is being pressured from the right.

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