I hear Bibi saying “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” and “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”, and US Congressmen wondering where their loyalties will lie. (Look up Thomas a Becket).

Now is the time for people to take sides. J-Street and APN and all USA Jews as individuals will have to inform themselves of the unpleasant issues (still, one imagines, unknown to many) and take sides — us or them — my president right or wrong (and maybe he will contrive to have the law on his side, given time) — or my alma mater Israel right or wrong, but not both. Problems of dual loyalty will spring forth like daisies.

If the president really starts talking about the illegality of the settlements and the wall, and bout the HARM that they each do to Palestinians, and about how neither (placed where they are placed) do anything positive for Israel from a security perspective, he might just swing it.

I really don’t care to think about “otherwise.”

… And, of course, the Israelis are betting that the 2012 US election will restore the Republicans to the White House.

I’ll restate what I said in an earlier comment. The leadership of the Israel Lobby will do everything they can to ensure that Pres. Obama has a failed presidency. They will cut his political balls off to make an example of him for future White House administrations.

He might as well fight them tooth and nail now, because absolutely no amount of groveling will earn forgiveness for the sin of his earlier efforts to slightly change US foreign policy on Israel occupation of Palestinian territory.

link to seattletimes.nwsource.com

BYahoo has overplayed his hand. Letting his FM guys run amok, the Dubai assassination … people are seeing a pattern here.

See how the argument is framed, casting the incident as minor and the U.S. reaction unwarranted, tantamount to bullying poor little Israel:
Beginning as a spat over a single housing project

drew criticism from Washington in language rarely directed at even Iran or North Korea

The Israeli government, stunned and perplexed by the U.S. assault, tried to regroup this weekend.

trying to obtain concessions from the conservative Israeli government at a moment when Netanyahu may be politically vulnerable
Netanyahu’s position in his government coalition is “perilous,” another senior U.S. official said, as the prime minister is being pushed to give ground at a moment when he is taking criticism from some on the Israeli right, as well as those in the country’s center and left.
Attacked from the left, and the right, so by U.S. standards, he must be doing the right thing!

And to seal the deal: The Obama administration, facing midterm elections this year, cannot afford to alienate Jewish Americans who support Israel. Israel’s advocates in the U.S. called Clinton’s words Friday “a gross overreaction.”