This is hilarious, and absolutely true:
President Shimon Peres told schoolchildren in the north that “the prime minister will be demonstratively absent from a meeting with one of the most evil and horrible people of modern history, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who lies through his teeth about the existence of the Holocaust and curses Israel”.
It’s not quite juvenile scorn, but it’s close enough.
Actually, the sentence is not quite correct. it should read.
Foreign leaders prefer to deal with Mr. Obama instead of his predecessor, George W. Bush, because they do not have to give him what he has sought.