Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells the Miami Herald editorial board that for the first year Obama was “really tough” on Israel, making many statements against the settlements, “until the American Jewish community started getting mad and getting mad at President Obama and saying Stop the pressure on Israel, why don’t we force the Palestinians to get on the negotiating table– get around the negotiating table, not on it– and negotiate with Israel and I would say that right now the pressure has subsided a lot.”
Huh. Memo to Chris Matthews: Not a word about those fearsome Christian Zionists!
Ros-Lehtinen makes a big mistake in this video: “Palestinians deserve peace also because they love their children and Israelis love their children also. There’s no difference there.” Wait, they love their children!