Settlements
The US’ choreographed “outrage” at Israel
The speeches at AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Netanyahu’s subsequent meeting with US President Barack Obama are widely seen as drawing to a close what Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren called the “most severe crisis in US-Israel relations” in decades. This rapprochement comes on the heels of a series of seemingly angry statements top members of the Obama Administration released, after Israel announced construction of 1,600 new illegal housing units in occupied East Jerusalem while US Vice President Joe Biden was in the country.
Biden’s Farce of a ‘Peace Mission’ Too Much For Israelis
Minutes after Joe Biden sang Israel’s praises for willingness to reengage in ‘peace talks’ and promised to confront Iran on it’s behalf, the Israeli government rebuffed the VP with an announcement to resume settlement building, effectively derailing his mission. A few months ago, Netanyahu came to Washington only to outmaneuver and outfox Obama and make [...]
Same Khara, Different Administration
It’s no real surprise to anyone with even the smallest insight into the biased U.S.-Israel relationship to witness the Obama administration with all its hype, its drama and its flowery rhetoric (or Haki Fadi, Arabic for ‘Empty Talk,’ depending on who you ask), cave in to the pressure and drop its demands for Israel to halt its illegal settlement activity
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