January 17, 2017 - Family Research Council
President Obama has less than 72 hours left as the leader of the free world -- and he's using every single one of them to remind Americans why they made the right decision in November.
And if anyone's as happy as conservatives about this Friday's festivities, it's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Like the rest of the world, he watched the one-day summit in Paris on Sunday, where Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry decided to take one last swipe at Israel on the way out the door.
With a final gasp, the Obama administration spent more than an hour bashing the U.S. ally and reaffirming its commitment to the Palestinians.
Among other things, the liberal leaders voiced their objections to the possibility that Trump might move the U.S. embassy back to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv -- something President Obama has refused to do in the absence of a final settlement agreement between Israel and Palestine.
"Trump and his choice to be ambassador to Israel have telegraphed the commitment, which would ostensibly recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital after decades of insisting that the city's status must be determined by direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians," the AP points out.
By the end of the "rigged" conference, as Netanyahu called it, the "peace" summit was as "flat as a failed soufflé," Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emanuel Nahshon tweeted.
Apart from the subtle warnings to the incoming administration, little resulted from the meeting -- much like Obama's eight years of unsuccessful diplomacy.
"This conference is among the last twitches of yesterday's world," Netanyahu told his cabinet. "Tomorrow's world will be different -- and it is very near."
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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