Topic: Decline of the West
While most people's attention has been focused on health care "reform," a serious crisis in the relationship between Israel and the United States has has flared up. Writing for NRO, Joel C. Rosenberg provides details.
It's quite clear that the Obama Administration has seized on this incident as a pretext for pressuring Israel into making unilateral concessions ahead of pending "indirect" peace talks with the Palestinians. It's equally clear that such a one-sided policy won't work. All the Obama Administration will accomplish with its "hysterical and heavy-handed measures to berate Israel" (Rosenberg's words) will be to further alienate the Israeli government and Israeli public opinion, both of which already view the Administration with profound distrust.
In the pursuit of peace, Obama and his foreign policy team are laying the foundations for another Mideast war. Some messiah!