Here is the hearing announcement for Hillary Clinton's appointment, tomorrow in Senate Foreign Relations. They can't spell One Hundred Eleventh right– Evelenth– I wonder whether they'll ask Hillary any tough questions about the Gaza assault. Just yesterday Ehud Olmert claimed that he got Bush to "shame" Condi Rice in the Security Council when she wanted to vote for a cease-fire. Will the Senate ask Hillary about that?
Clemons gets it right re Olmert and Condi, that it's a disgraceful attack. I missed the humiliation in this. Israel often treats our executive like the help, because Israelis know they have power in Washington. It's similar to Ehud Barak treating Bill Clinton like a peer in 2000, and Yitzhak Shamir lying to George Bush about not building more settlements, in '91. They always get away with it, because of the lobby. No wonder the fury at J Street has been coordinated by the Israeli embassy. They have so much to lose.
