NBC’s Mitchell Admonishes ‘Really Rude’ Netanyahu Treating Obama ‘Like a School Boy’
At the end of Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for daring to criticize President Obama's call for Israel to return to 1967 borders: “…he criticized the President, and in such a fashion! He lectured him in the Oval Office….basically treating him like a school boy.” Mitchell went on to declare: “People even who work for Netanyahu, some Israeli officials, told him later that he went too far. That it was, it was really rude and that there would be blowback to this.” The leading voice of criticism in Israel was Netanyahu's liberal political opponent, Tzipi Livini, who also called on the Prime Minister to resign. On her 1PM ET hour MSNBC show on Friday , Mitchell also took Republican presidential candidates to task for denouncing Obama's call for pre-1967 war borders in Israel, remarking: “Whatever happened to politics ending at the water's edge?”
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on May 23, 2011. Filed under