Jeb Bush pans Obama’s Israel, Iran policy

Writing in the conservative National Review Online, prospective GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush blasts Obama’s foreign policy, saying that his administration has shown a “pattern of diplomatic scolding of Israel.”

“The rest of the world must wonder what it takes to enrage the White House. Apparently, all you have to do is reelect a leader whom the president doesn’t like. Israel’s elections should be something to celebrate. If only the rest of the region were able to hold peaceful and vibrant multi-party elections…Yet instead of recognizing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reelection and the achievement of Israel’s multi-party, multi-ethnic democracy, the White House issued half-hearted congratulations.

“Then Obama threatened to downgrade the US-Israel relationship and permit a series of anti-Israel resolutions to pass the United Nations Security Council without firm American opposition.

He also calls Obama’s approach to Iran “foolish.”

Obama “always believes Iran’s excuses, but never its threats.”