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An Ugly Double Standard for Israel


(U.S. News) Lawrence J. Haas - President Barack Obama's vow to reassess U.S.-Israeli relations after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign remarks about a Palestinian state showcases his badly skewed views of Israel. If Obama takes Netanyahu "at his [election-driven] word," one can't help wonder why he's so willing to ignore the far more explosive words of Iran's leader. "Of course, yes, death to America," Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a speech on Saturday. (Nor should we forget that Khamenei continues to call for Israel's annihilation.) The writer, former communications director for Vice President Al Gore, is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
2015-03-26 00:00:00
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