No matter how many US officials insist that they are totally committed to Israel unconditionally, the soaring tension between the two nations is evident, and Israel’s open lobbying against US diplomatic overtures to Iran is just the beginning.
That’s because the Obama Administration has myriad ambitions across the Middle East, and Israel is more than tangentially involved in a lot of them. The tensions are likely to spillover into some or all of those venues.
The most obvious situation is the Palestinian peace talks, which Israel has been on the verge of destroying at any rate, but having repeatedly tied Palestinian statehood to Iran, the Netanyahu government may have a tailor-made excuse to kill the talks outright.
US intervention in Syria’s civil war and its policy toward Egypt are also open to considerable Israel interference, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems inclined toward petty needling on any issue that presents itself to display its displeasure toward the US.
US goals are still Israel goals until we see concrete evidence to the contrary. All we are watching now is a dog and pony show.
Took thoughts right out of my head; 'smoke & mirrors,' same ole same ole. Who the hell do those monkeys thing we are, who are they kidding? The dumbed-down listening to MSM, of course.
Talmudia is going to go too far and do irreparable damage to it's Most Favored Banana Republic status…at least most people who care about the United States hope for this.
Part of this is Iran's refusal (at least publicly) to recognize Israel as a legitimate and not just a foreign usurper of Palestine and most importantly, Jerusalem.
The other part is the hard-right faux religious Nettanyahu and his cadre of racist ethnosupremacists with too much money and too much firepower.
Bibi needs to be put in his place and hopefully after all-important US midterm elections, this is taken care of. America needs to stop being satisfied with piss-poor relations with everyone else for the sake of unliked and unwanted Israel.
Kinda suspicious of calling the Syria thing a 'Civil War.' I imagine there really are Syrians among the foreign funded terrorists, but in 10 years 'Civil War' will definitely leave the wrong impression about what happened; e.g., it even came after foreign backing of other such events. Where ever it comes from (I first heard it from Anne Marie Slaughter, the 'no kill zone' lady), I can't see it as ethical to go along with it.