It's funny that Obama had to travel all the way to Cairo for MSNBC to start talking about what's going on in Washington, DC. Keith Olbermann had Lawrence Wilkerson, State Department chief of staff under Colin Powell, on his show tonight to discuss the US/Israeli relationship.
Because this is MSNBC, and they still seem to think the Bush administration is here to kick around, the interview was mainly focused on the last administration. But, in just over six minutes, Wilkerson called the US "Israel's lawyer," criticized Bush's secret deals with Sharon, acknowledged that the US and Israel have "diametrically opposed objectives," and even intimated that Obama might have to threaten US aid to Israel to get the Netanyahu government to move. Towards the end he gives JStreet a nice shout out and says he is "very happy" that someone is opposing AIPAC. On the flip side, he calls Mahmoud Abbas "a joke", so I guess he was evenhanded.
Watch it below. I hope this is the beginning of a new leaf being turned over at the network.
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(Thanks to Susie Kneedler for sharing this.)
