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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/256371
A New Low
(Commentary) Noah Pollak - It appears to be official policy in the current administration to approach the peace process as an opportunity to reorient the U.S.' position between Jews and Arabs in the region. Palestinian incitement, the PA's public celebration of terrorism, the rioting in Jerusalem, the ongoing Palestinian refusal to participate in negotiations - none of these have warranted any American comment whatsoever. In fact, I cannot recall a single time when an Obama administration official has criticized the PA for anything. Yet the administration publicly upbraids Israel on an almost weekly basis. The Obama administration's reaction to the Biden visit has been too eagerly petulant to simply be a response to an insult - especially when it is clear that Netanyahu didn't know the housing announcement was coming, and when the U.S. had already accepted the terms of the settlement freeze, which allows for precisely such construction in Jerusalem.