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To: Sully- who wrote (78367)	3/17/2010 12:21:50 AM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

I'm actually not too disappointed in this debacle. It might free up Israel to act decisively on Iran, and perhaps also on Palestine. Netanyahu is a statesmen, unlike the other participants.

To: Sully- who wrote (78367)	3/17/2010 5:14:38 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Lovely By Seth Leibsohn The Corner Blazoned across the NYT today is the headline: “Israel Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” How I just pray for the headline someday that reads ”Iran Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Venezuela Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Cuba Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Myanmar Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Sudan Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” Instead we get a story that states in paragraph one: “The most serious conflicts between the United States and Israel in two decades is leaving a politically embarrassed Israeli government scrambling to respond to a tough list of demands by the Obama administration.” All this, by the way, as the same issue of the NYT today reports Iran is set to hang six more protesters -- and of course, as you know, that's the country where the U.S. “should not be seen as meddling.” -- Seth Leibsohn is a fellow of the Claremont Institute and producer of Bill Bennett's Morning In America. corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (78367)	3/19/2010 9:12:01 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 90947

Why Does Obama Want an Israel Crisis? by Charles Krauthammer 03/19/2010 Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: gaffe prone Vice President Joe Biden was visiting, Jerusalem is a touchy subject, and you don’t bring up touchy subjects that might embarrass an honored guest. But it was no more than a gaffe. It was certainly not a policy change, let alone a betrayal. The neighborhood is in Jerusalem, and the 2009 Netanyahu-Obama agreement was for a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements excluding Jerusalem. Nor was the offense intentional. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not know about this move -- step four in a seven-step ... Message 26396744