Obama warns Netanyahu of "international fallout" if he undermines talks

Clearly hinting at the growing BDS movement and the possibility of Palestinians resorting to the International Criminal Court to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes and crimes against humanity, US president Obama repeated in public today what he had said last year behind closed doors: If Israel fails to reach some agreement with the current Palestinian leaders it will face massive international repercussions that even the US will have "limited ability to protect Israel" from.

Needless to say, the current so-called "negotiations," or what I call negations, have no chance of delivering Palestinian rights as they are centered around Israel's attempts to entrench and consolidate its regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid by negating the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu's statement, made right before boarding his flight for the US, bluntly defying US pleas to freeze construction in Israel's illegal colonies in the occupied Palestinian territory is seen by many observers as giving Obama the middle finger even before meeting him. As obsequious to Netanyahu's whims and far-right policies as the US administration has been in the last few years, mainly due to Israel's stranglehold on Congress, such overt humiliation of a US president will not go unnoticed by the American public, which by several indicators is losing its patience with Israel's hubris, fanatic war mongering and siphoning of billions of dollars each year from US taxpayers at the expense of US domestic priorities.

Drunk with power, an overdose of arrogance and tottering on the shoulders of the US giant, Mr. Netanyahu thinks he is on top of the world, missing all the loud signals of the imminent earthquake of isolation underneath.