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Obama’s silence begins to seem aloof/bought given the urgency of the American street

We reported this before. But here is kabobfest actually providing a ton of the questions to Obama from the American street:

The vast majority — vast majority — of questions being submitted to Obama's Change.gov web site right now are by thinking people. They want to know what he's going to do about Israel's current slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza…
"Do you foresee a time when American foreign policy will reflect the
belief that a Palestinian life counts as much as an Israeli life?"
SV, San Francisco

Today on Meet the Press, Katty Kay of BBC said, Look, Obama spoke out about Mumbai. And Glenn Greenwald has been doing beautiful work about the lockstepness of the liberal establishment on this question and no other. The answer my friend is blowing in the Arab emirates. Says The National:

Many analysts say the
prevailing attitudes in Washington are shaped by what has come to be
known as the “Israel lobby”, a bloc of pro-Israel organisations and
individuals.

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