Obama ‘freer’ in 2016 to criticize Israel
During his last year in the White House, US president Barack Obama feels “freer to criticize Israel” and hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says an American author.
“I think that Obama, because this is the end of his term, feels a little freer to criticize Israel,” Rich Forer, the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, told Press TV in an interview Tuesday.
His comments were in reaction to unprecedented remarks by US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about Israel’s double standards in treating with Palestinians.
Though rare, Shapiro’s criticism is just words followed by no “concrete action,” according to Forer.
“This is the usual game that the United States plays… and then does nothing about it, never backs up,” he said. “The only actions the United States ever really takes are to get Israel more and more money and aid.”
On the other hand, Shapiro’s criticism is needed every now and then to “just show that the United States is not as controlled by Israel as it actually is.”
If the US is “sincere,” it should stop selling arms to Tel Aviv, based on its own constitution, as the regime violates the international law, Forer argued.
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