Under the Bus: The Latest on Obama, Hilary, Biden mistreatment of Israel

This is really sad & disturbing. At the same time that O & co. are hyperventilating about Israel possibly building housing in its own capital, the Palestinians were busy dedicating a town square in the West Bank to a female terrorist murderer responsible for one of the most vile terrorist attacks, killing a bunch of innocent women and children.

What did Obama, Biden, Hilary, Axelrod or Gibbs have to say about that ?

Well, nothing.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2010/01/welcome-to-dalal-al-mughrabi-square.html

In another move that's bound to bring about a peaceful settlement between Israel and the 'Palestinians,' 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazenparticipated this week in the naming of Dalal al-Mughrabi square in beautiful downtown Ramallah. A mere birthday party isn't good enough for Dalal. She has to have a square named after her to perpetuate her memory among the 'Palestinian people.'

Dalal al-Mughrabi was the perpetrator of the1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 37 civilians, including 12 children and US citizen Gail Rubin, were murdered. Honoring her and making her into a hero is apparently just fine with the Obama administration. It's certainly not an 'obstacle to peace.

Are U.S.-Israeli Relations Headed for a Train Wreck? [Joel C. Rosenberg]

As Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington this weekend to address the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, relations between the U.S. and Israel appear to be headed for a train wreck. Indeed, Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., told Israeli diplomats in a conference call over the weekend that U.S.-Israel relations face their worst crisis in more than three decades.

Here’s what happened and why.

During Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Jerusalem last week to show American support for Israel, some lower-level officials in the Israeli bureaucracy decided it would be a good time to announce the construction of 1,600 new homes in a Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority immediately went ballistic, calling the announcement a threat to peace. The vice president was deeply offended and told Netanyahu that the timing of the announcement made the Israelis appear to be trying to sabotage the beginning of new peace talks with the Palestinians.

Netanyahu immediately apologized, saying he had not authorized the announcement to be made during the VP’s trip and was not trying to derail or disrupt the visit. Biden appeared to accept the apology, and Netanyahu thought the problem had been resolved. The main focus of Biden’s visit, after all, was supposed to be how to work together to handle the existential threat of Iran building nuclear weapons.

Since then, however, the situation has worsened significantly. The State Department called in Ambassador Oren last week and reprimanded him severely for the Israeli housing announcement. Three days after the incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned Netanyahu and reamed him out for forty-three minutes, saying the Obama administration saw the housing announcement as "insulting." State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley confirmed for reporters on Friday that Clinton told Netanyahu that the U.S. had "strong objections to Tuesday’s announcement, not just in terms of timing, but also in its substance," that the U.S. “considers the announcement a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship — and counter to the spirit of the Vice President’s trip,” and that this action has “undermined trust and confidence in the peace process, and in America’s interests.”

Secretary Clinton then gave Netanyahu a list of specific demands that Israel must meet for the U.S. to be convinced that she is serious about peace with the Palestinians.

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