Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, painted a dark picture of U.S.-Israeli relations during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem last week. Israeli diplomats say Oren described the current situation as a "tectonic rift" in which Israel and the United States are like continents drifting apart.
According to the Israeli diplomats, Oren said relations between the two countries are not in a crisis because a crisis is something that passes. Oren opted to use terms from geology: "Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart."
The Haaretz piece says that Oren has denied the remarks, but: These observations are wise. The whole deal is going only one direction now, south. I wonder when the Israelis/the lobby will understand that nothing lasts forever, that Michael Oren’s book saying that Israel and the U.S. are religious states that were married in a former lives was hopeful propaganda, that America has had a bellyful and with all that, will they realize with desperation, that they overplayed their hand.
Yes I know, Washington will be the last place to figure out that something has changed, but I wonder, when the special relationship ends for good, what Israel will actually put on the table in terms of repartition to try and save the two-state-solution, and the Jewish state. Put another way, they shoulda grabbed the Bernadotte deal when it was on the table in ’48.
