Last night in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah there was a vigil, a…
For months we’ve been crowing on the site about how the Netanayahu/Lieberman government is hurting American Jewish support for, and identification with, Israel. Well now we’re getting confirmation from the horse’s mouth.
An internal memo from Nadav Tamir, the Israeli General Counsel in Boston, to the Israeli Foreign Ministry charges that the Netanyahu government of hurting the US/Israeli relationship. He sums the current perception of Israel in the Unites States – “Nowadays, there is a sense in the United States that Obama is forced to deal with the obduracy of the governments in Iran, North Korea, and Israel.”
Over at The Cable, Laura Rozen discusses the diplomatic plans for Robert Gates, George Mitchell, and James Jones in Israel next week, and gives some curious insight into the present U.S./Israel relationship.
The article discusses the possibility that President Obama may need to set a deadline in order to break the stalemate with the Israeli Government. According to earlier estimates, the President has about four weeks to get the peace process moving forward. He and his Administration have done an excellent job reaching out to all elements of the Status-Quo, Pro-Israel community. It is now time to for Obama to stop listening and start acting, otherwise these defenders of the status quo will continue to find new and destructive ways of playing out the clock.