Obama officially divorces Israel

Fresnozionism.org
15 April '10
Posted before Shabbat

The administration-friendly New York Times today published a story entitled “Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East” (dictated by) attributed to “unnamed White House officials” which I think we can take as an ‘official’ statement of the administration’s policy. It’s worth dissecting the key portions.

When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle East dispute was a “vital national security interest of the United States,” he was highlighting a change that has resulted from a lengthy debate among his top officials over how best to balance support for Israel against other American interests.

Mentioning the need to “balance support for Israel against other American interests” tells us two things:

1.our interests not only diverge from those of Israel, but in some sense are at odds with them; and,

2.we intend to change the degree to which we support Israel.

By “other American interests,” what is meant is the desire to improve relations with the Arab nations and perhaps Iran; the administration appears to believe that this can be accomplished by reducing our support for Israel.

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