re: #254 simoom

It actually sounds like PM Netanyahu, Abbas, Pres. Obama and VP Biden weren’t actually invited.

Haaretz claims that Hollande’s admin sent signals to Netanyahu and Abbas that they preferred they didn’t attend the rally, and that Shin Bet was also worried about the difficult security situation at the event, and so the PM initially announced he wouldn’t be attending rally. Abbas also announced he wasn’t coming. Then, on the last minute news that FM Avigdor Lieberman and Minister Naftali Bennett decided to go, the PM reversed himself and also announced he was coming.

According to Andrea Mitchell, citing an “official,” Obama and Biden didn’t receive an invitation either, perhaps because of how disruptive to the city and the event their security would have been. Mitchell also speculates in her tweet that maybe they signaled not to be asked, so perhaps there’s yet another goofy avenue for this media outrageous outrage to pursue.

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As with many things with this administration, they were damned if they did go to Paris themselves and damned if they didn’t, even with the valid points about the POTUS’/VPOTUS’ security needs for such a long-haul trip on such short notice.

No way to “win”, especially since the so-called “liberal” media outlets have taken the “if you can’t beat them, lamely ape them” approach to competing with Fox News and the RWNJ blogosphere over the past few years.