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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=171995
Has Obama Declared Diplomatic War on Israel?
(Jerusalem Post) Barry Rubin - Has the Obama administration, against U.S. interests, declared diplomatic war on Israel? It has become reasonable to ask whether the Obama White House is running amok, whether it is pushing friction so far out of proportion that it is starting to look like a vendetta based on hostility and ideology. The administration seems to envision Israel paying for everything: supposedly getting the PA to negotiate, doing away with any Islamist desire to commit acts of terrorism or revolt, keeping Iraq quiet, making Afghanistan stable and solving just about every other global problem. At the very moment when it is coddling Syria and losing the battle for anything but the most minimal sanctions on Iran, the administration has chosen to bash Israel. Since this administration has already unilaterally abrogated two major U.S. promises - the previous president's recognition that settlement blocs could be absorbed as part of a peace agreement, and the Obama administration's own pledge to let Israel build in east Jerusalem if it stopped in the West Bank - why should Israel put its faith in some new set of promises?