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"We just need to wait him out….. he is a one-term president he’s weak…”

Politico/ here “When Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu faced off with President Barack Obama over housing in Jerusalem earlier this month, he was facing a distracted American leader whose presidency hung in...

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Some Reflections on the Netanyahu Visit

I’m still not entirely sure whether the latest flap between Israel and the US — the announcement of the approval of 20 apartments in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, leaked just as Bibi was about to...

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"…A future in which emigration and unending Arab & Muslim hostility end the...

Lang in SST/ here “Bibi was “dissed.” Good, he needed the lesson. I think there will be more such lessons. Obama is a patient man. I now see that he favors the “ambush” style. Israeli hubris and...

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Netanyahu & Obama are at point of no return: IRAN OFF THE HOOK?

Judah Grunstein has an interesting comment on the Netanyahu “Screw You” strategy: “… Here’s where the recent developments in the U.S.-Israel relationship, as well as Israel’s recent “bull in a china...

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The OK Corral: Obama Gives Netanyahu an Ultimatum?

Is this a sea change? Most of this is coming from the Israeli press, but to use a scholarly term of art: wow, just wow. The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Obama has insisted that Netanyahu clarify...

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"Netanyahu was received like the last of the wazirs from Lower Senegal.”

And when you thought that ONLY the Lebanese are racists! In the Sydney Herald/ here The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, returned to Israel last night after an apparently disastrous meeting...

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Get rid of Ross

Laura Rozen of Politico talks to US officials who see Dennis Ross continue being Israel’s lawyer rather than America’s troubleshooter. It’s scathing: “He [Ross] seems to be far more sensitive to...

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In Obama’s White House: "… a suggestion of Denis Ross’s "dual loyalties"…"

Smith & Rosen in POLITICO/ here ” … Sources say within the inter-agency process, White House Middle East strategist Dennis Ross is staking out a position that Washington needs to be sensitive to...

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Netanyahu is dealing with a US political landscape that has also changed...

Politico/ here “… At this point, a critical part of U.S. thinking about the way forward in the Mideast revolves around questions about Netanyahu himself, and specifically whether the “pragmatic Bibi”...

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"Regime Change……"

Laura Rosen’ on Aaron Miller/ here “… What would motivate Obama to meddle now, with the goal of undermining Netanyahu, and how would he do it? Both White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Secretary...

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US Official: "Saad [Hariri] frittered away his victory & now is presiding...

MEPGS: Excerpts:Continuing tensions between the United States and Israel were on display this week, first as Prime Minister Netanyahu skipped the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and then in some...

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Links for April 23 2010

Rather out of it today… Jordan confirms rocket strike in Red Sea port city – Haaretz: This is an extremely bizarre story whereby a rocket was fired from Sinai, flew over Eilat, and crashed on Aqaba....

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Walt on Miller and "shared values"

I can’t resist but post this great answer by Stephen Walt to Aaron David Miller’s recent Foreign Policy piece on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, on the specific point of “shared values” between...

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British Jewry goes ‘off-message’ over Israel – Telegraph Blogs [del.icio.us]

Jewish organizations in UK call for a questioning of Bibi and Israel policies. Go to Source

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Head of German Intel: ‘Shalit’s return makes all of Germany proud!’

Bibi:  ‘You use these things so well…’ Angie: ‘You sink? ah vell, danke meine Biblieng’ As for the 1000 Palestinians, their return was okay …. “… “If we achieved a result that will shortly see Shalit...

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