Let's see!! The countrys falling apart and the President has his feet propped up on the desk in the Oval Office. How do we know he wasn't ordering take out for his wife and kids. Come on folks lets focus on whats important.

c mon please??!!They diggin too deep now...

Originally posted by joe82
June 10) - Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an "insult" to Israel.
They saw the incident as somewhat akin to an incident last year, when the Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad.
It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.
Was there a subliminal message intended from the White House to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who is publicly resisting attempts by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to force Israel to stop any kind of settlement activity in occupied territories once and forever?
Whether or not it is true, it shows the mood in Israel. They feel cornered. The reactions out of Israel reflect that feeling.
Netanyahu is making a speech Sunday, in part as a response to Mr. Obama's address to the Arab world last week in Cairo.
Israel's Channel One TV reported that Netanyahu was told Tuesday by an "American official" in Jerusalem that, "We are going to change the world. Please, don't interfere." The report said Netanyahu's aides interpreted this as a "threat."
Netanyahu met with George Mitchell today for four hours in Jerusalem. The State Department announced this afternoon that Mitchell will be stopping in Beirut and Damascus when he finishes his visits to Israel and the Palestinian Authority


I truly beleive that obama will turn against israel, his agenda for the world is not in our best interest.
whats your take on this story. it can be found at at aol news.

The better thing to ask is, What aren't they insulted by?

And Who gives a flying Fak.


They wine like little 4 year olds not getting their way.....

Must we appease their every need and belief .... enough is enough

Quit whining and get over the fact that this world does not revolve around israel..

Well, i am not insulted. And it is first time i heard about the issue actually. It is not official white house PR photo. So what is there to be insulted about? Bill Clinton is supposed to be Israeli friend, but who knows what he did while speaking to Israeli leaders? THEN i would understand the insult.
The funny thing is that in Israeli parliament even in formal meetings with foreign leaders Knesset members were wearing jeans and sandals. And nobody was insulted by this. Shoes? Photo? There are bigger problems. I hope that after Netanyahu speech on sunday Obama would not start throwing those shoes at us! This would be a problem.

You know, I want to say if Obama putting his feet on the desk is the worst thing he does in the Oval Office then he is leaps and bounds ahead Slick Willie.

But unfortunately he is doing much worse things in there with concerns to America's future.

I noticed my pharmacy just hired someone who wears a berka. I need to call there later. Guess I should cover my hair first. Don't want to offend anybody.

Israel should relax...

By insulting Israel, throwing some give to Islam, creating a Palestinian state... all these things will make Israel more vulnerable

but
whomever or from where ever chooses to attack Israel after doing such things...

The us then can intervene on Israels behalf having given them the opportunity to both do the right thing or screw it up in the region and we could do so without the entire worlds wrath...

On a very traditional level, Israel would be giving in, putting itself at risk

but lets face it... a tiny strip of land, if they come for the jews, without having capitulated to them at all... we just don't have a leg to stand on in defending Israel right now, we'd face the whole world taking sides...

on many levels, the Israelis SHOULD allow Obama to do whatever it is he has planned, it's not like... they still wont have nukes if they are betrayed OR that if the middle east rises against them these in the end minor concessions affect anything in that kind of war...

Make a real peace... Give the nations in the region the rope... leave it up to them to choose to hang themselves with it or not

If Israel continues on this path it will loose a far more important high ground than any hill... the moral high ground and in doing so, genuinely cease to exist

It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.

Israel is not part of the Middle East. It is a colonial outpost and the most detested entity in the region. It is to the Middle East as apartheid South Africa was to Africa.

If your comment is a commonly held view amongst zionists just because Obama has issued ultimatums to the Netanyahu government, then I think it is an attempt to undermine him. It is about obscuring matters and to distract from any attempts of controlling this feral entity.

The idea is to make a series of anti Obama allegations then eventually identify him as an anti-Semite. When this is done, zionists forces will be mobilised in the US and the Obama administration disembowelled.

This is a profound issue for American citizens regardless of the matter Palestinian freedom. The question is, is the destruction of a US government worth the irrational interests of a right wing fascistic Israeli government?

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Israel just like to moan, and moan... and moan some more. Inbetween bombing innocent people and stealing land, they moan a little more.

They really should get a hobby, maybe start a football league or something. Something constructive, not destructive.

I don't know what other cultures consider insulting but what I do know is that this picture shows one cool, casual, laid back dude. Not a problem in the world. Slick comes to mind. Not presidential, not authoritative, not concerned, not diligent. Slick.