Monday, March 23, 2015 Israel, Obama never so hard: "Words of Netanyahu hamper peace" Israel, Obama never so hard: "Words of Netanyahu hamper peace" World The day before the vote on 17 March, the Israeli Prime Minister had stated that " with me as prime minister, there will be a Palestinian state "in order to collect the votes of the right of the settlers, the nationalists, the orthodox religious. Words, says the head of the White House, "conflict with the deepest nature of Israeli democracy" by Roberto Festa | March 22, 2015 Comments More information about: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Elections, Israel, the US Who would believe, or hoped, in a change of course in the relationship between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli elections, you should think again. In an interview with the Huffington Post published Saturday, Obama said that the claims made by the Israeli Prime Minister in the last hours of the election campaign "hamper" the path to peace and "conflict with the deepest nature of Israeli democracy." Never, in the past, an American president had gone so deep in criticizing the policy of an Israeli prime minister. Obama has waited two full days before calling Netanyahu and congratulated for winning the election. A sign that the "snub" made by Netanyahu with his speech to the US Congress - invited by Republicans without going for the White House - has not been forgotten. In the interview, Obama still reveals that the call to Jerusalem was not of pure congratulations. On The Contrary. The American president would be launched into a critique rather than articulated by Netanyahu said during the election campaign, up to fear the possibility that the US attitude toward Israel, especially in the UN Security Council, will change. Advertise Obama would first complained to Netanyahu for statements contrary to the solution of "two states". "I pointed out that, given its pre-election statements, it becomes difficult to find a path that allows to believe that negotiations are possible," said Obama. The day before the vote Netanyahu stated that "with me as prime minister, there will be a Palestinian state"; a statement that was intended to clear collect the votes of the right of the settlers, the nationalists, the orthodox religious, and that the prime minister, an elected president, has somewhat recanted, saying they are in favor of the solution of the two states, "if the conditions on the ground permit it." Obama shows that he had enjoyed the swings chasing ratings Netanyahu precise: "Well, we take his word for it when he says that a Palestinian state will never be born during his time as prime minister, and at this point we have to consider what other options are available to ensure that the area does not develop a chaotic situation ". Obama goes even further and says that what was promised by Netanyahu to settlers and religious can in no way be accepted by the American administration: "We can not accept a perpetual status quo, which enlarges the settlements - this is not simply a recipe which guarantees the stability of the region. " Accents hardest Obama finds them on the subject of the appeal - which many in Israel have branded a "racist" - made by Netanyahu to voters right on election day. To convince them to go to the polls, Netanyahu had raised the alarm on the Arab Israelis "who go to vote en masse." "We did this to Netanyahu - Obama now says - that this kind of rhetoric is contrary to the best traditions of Israel; that although Israel was founded on the need for a homeland for the Jews, Israeli democracy is founded on the premise that everyone in the country to be treated fairly and equally. " If this does not happen, glosses Obama, in what is perhaps the hardest part of the interview and peremptory, "not only will give ammunition to those who do not believe in a Jewish state, but also begin to erode the meaning of democracy in country. " No American president, in the past, had never come to use accents so strong against a duly elected leader of Israel; up almost to question the nature of the democratic and pluralistic political project underway in Jerusalem. In the capital of Israel, at this time, among politicians, the media and in the cultural and social elites is an ongoing debate about where this now manifest impatience of Washington could lead. Ruled that the United States can rethink the help of Defense of Israel - $ 3 billion a year - the most likely hypothesis is that the US administration might soften its opposition to the recognition of the Palestinian state. The hypothesis, science fiction until a few months ago, is now a possibility, especially if the personal relations between Obama and Netanyahu were to continue to plummet. For the Israeli government, at this point, a possible way out would be only from the next, convulsive start of the US presidential campaign, and hoped the arrival at the White House in 2016 by a Republican president.