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Netanyahu labeled liar in Sarkozy-Obama G20 mic-leak
Published: 08 November, 2011, 14:26
A TV grab made from French TV channel France 2 on November 4, 2011 shows US president Barack Obama (R) and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy during their joint appearance for a pre-recorded interview at the end of the G20 meeting of Cannes (AFP Photo / France 2)
TAGS: Thrills&Spills, Politics, Europe, USA, Israel
The presidents of America and France have aired complaints about the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the course of a private conversation overhead by journalists, reports say. President Sarkozy went so far as to call Netanyahu a liar.
“I can’t stand him!” the Frenchman told his American counterpart in a would-be confidential discussion. Obama’s reply was “You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”
The exchange is alleged to have happened on Monday on the fringes of the G20 summit, following a media conference. According to the French website Arret Sur Images, the private conversation between the two was broadcast to a half-dozen-strong press crowd when microphones were accidentally left switched on.
The two leaders first discussed France’s vote in favor of Palestine’s accession to the UNESCO, which came as a surprise to the US, which opposed the move, the report says. The pair went on to pursue an undiplomatic discussion of Netanyahu’s personality.
The report further alleges that the journalists, who involuntarily witnessed the conversation, decided not to make it public due to its sensitive nature. The tensions between the Israeli leader and some of his Western partners, including Obama, are no big secret, but the differences have not been brought to the public eye in such blunt terms before.
The website does not reveal the identity of the journalists who leaked the story.
Politico author Ben Smith compared the exposé to the WikiLeaks’ “Cablegate revelations”: "Things that are widely understood, but not supposed to be spoken aloud."
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Mortlock,
Unfortunately you are very confused young child. Although a Zionist lobby may exist, although you and I can do little to prove or disprove it,
it remains fact that all nations are playing this pass the ball game, and US, plays the "I got your back" game.
...and you were saying your happy about Palestinian statehood vote?Why did the Palestinian's lose their land again? Oh yeah, they attacked Israel for the last 65 year after the UN charter, and lost.
And Netanyahu is a pawn of the US, he is following agenda of giving more and more land to Palestine, when in earlier statements he said giving that land would endager Israel's security. Sounds like a pawn to me.
and Russia? Of course, Russia plays the I support Palastine plus Plo/Fatah Terrorist group host (Iran).
Not bad if you ask me sounds like the evil one is succeeding.
Bako,
"He is following an agenda of giving more and more land to Palestine".
I must be confused because this sentence is nonsense to me. With each new Jewish settlement, your claim that more and more land is being returned to the Palestinians is entirely contradicted, young child.