U.S. publicly humiliates Israeli defense minister as visit ends

[Lamar]

[quote]The White House refused to give Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon an audience with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice during his trip to the United States this week, senior American officials confirmed Friday. The reason for the cold shoulder was a number of statements Ya'alon made six months ago, in which he criticized the Obama administration and Kerry in particular.

"Given some of his comments in the recent past, it should come as no surprise that he was denied some meetings," a senior U.S. official told Haaretz. During his visit, Ya'alon met with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. A senior American official told the Associated Press that the White House wanted to instruct Power to decline meeting with Ya'alon but that they had only learned of the meeting after she had consented.[/quote]

This is kind of big news in my opinion, usually you might hear something along the lines of "its not helpful" or "try not to do that". Read the rest of the article to find out why he was snubbed.
[url]http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.622632[/url]

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote]Despite the fact that Ya'alon's requests to meet with the senior members of the Obama administration were declined over a week ago, Washington waited until the visit ended before making the story public [B]in order to humiliate the Israeli defense minister.[/B][/quote]

I find this hard to believe, that they went out of their way just to "humiliate" him and makes it harder to take this article more serious.

[Thomo_UK]

Coming only from an Israeli source it's difficult to believe they deliberately meant for 'humiliation'

It's basically saying "Yeah those things you said, your a bit of a cunt so no, you can't see him."

[Explosions]

Biden wasn't about to waste his precious time on this asshole. He had more important things to do.

[Sgman91]

[QUOTE=Explosions;46328115]Biden wasn't about to waste his precious time on this asshole. He had more important things to do.[/QUOTE]

Like constantly making a a fool of himself. It takes hard work to put your foot in your mouth that consistently!

[Disgruntled]

[QUOTE=sgman91;46332962]Like constantly making a a fool of himself. It takes hard work to put your foot in your mouth that consistently![/QUOTE]

Seems more like his PR team is trying to put their feet in his mouth while he says whatever the hell he wants.