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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Opinion: Netanyahu tests Obama, again

Al Jazeera- ...That formulation, which was devised by the pro-Israel lobby here, pleased the Netanyahu government, which interprets it to mean that Israel has carte blanch from Washington to do whatever it wants. No other country in the world enjoys such a pledge from the US.

...The question is: what will Obama do this time? Especially when it is clear that this latest announcement was timed to kill off US-sponsored negotiations.

Following Tuesday's "shellacking," the big question in Washington is whether the president is going to push back against ugly slaps like this or simply try to conciliate his adversaries.

Netanyahu, who grew up in the US, is as much a Republican as he is a Likudnik (he worked with Speaker Gingrich against President Clinton) and will do everything he can to sink Obama and the Democrats. The President needs to understand that when he plans his response to Netanyahu's latest diss. Read more
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