What Likud is Teaching Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, China, Chavez, Burma……..
“What can Obama do to respond to Israel's slap at Biden?. President Barack Obama faces what may be the biggest test to date of his credibility in the Middle East after Israel greeted Vice President Joe Biden with an announcement that it will construct 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem, diplomats and analysts said Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said the announcement's timing wasn't intentional. However, Netanyahu also appears to be betting that he'll get little pushback from a U.S. president who's avoided public confrontation with Israel and is concentrating on building Democratic support on domestic issues such as health care. What an Israeli newspaper called "The Slap Heard 'Round the World" brought sharp condemnation from Biden, who met Palestinians leaders in the West Bank on Wednesday. ………” McClatchy News
“The slap heard round the world”. The writer in Israel’s Haaretz was right. It was a sharp slap and it will reverberate around the world.
If the us vice president can’t get a little bit of respect from Israel, a country that has depended on the USA for its survival, then how can you expect respect from other nations? If Israeli right-wing officials can insult the American president with impunity, then how do you think others, regional rivals, will behave? What do you think the likes of Ahmadinejad and many others will learn from this lesson?
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