If only Israeli could break that bond and conduct an independent policy.

It remains a mystery why Clinton did not instead push Abbas to accept the plans. Everyone understands that they won’t be carried out for years, if ever. Abbas is hugely dependent on US aid and political support. The PA is a burden on the US, while Israel is an ally.

So why push Netanyahu?

As usual, Biden called on Israel to take “bold steps” toward peace—that is, offer still more staggering concessions to our sworn enemies.

Like everyone else in the world, Biden condemned Israeli construction plans in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem. Unveiling the plan on the date of Biden’s visit to Israel could hardly be a coincidence as the government claims, but is more likely a well-deserved slap in his face.

Though many commentators mistake the VP for Israel’s best friend in the otherwise hostile Obama administration, Biden has supported Iran on many occasions, and has defended Iran’s right to a nuclear bomb.

Obama first demanded that Israel accept peace talks with our Palestinian enemies as a condition of American support against Iran. Now, with Russia and China opposing any meaningful sanctions, US support remains illusory, but Israel is still forced to uphold the construction moratorium.

Historically, the issue is not clear. In numerous cases, the Turkish government attempted to protect the deported Armenians. Whatever the case, by now everyone believes the story, and the American government’s persistent refusal to recognize the affair as genocide is only meant to placate Turkey. To that end, the US forced Armenia to sign a humiliating accord with Turkey which glossed over the genocide.

The American appeasement of Turkey is worse than pointless. Many years ago, the silence signaled American support for Turkey’s secular regime, but today it shows American complacence toward Turkey’s Islamist policies. If the US keeps quiet on genocide, then certainly it will tolerate anything else Turkey does today.

Oh yeah, we would love to see Hillary Clinton rush to meet fringe Israeli MKs on a private tour of America.

To reinforce his message, Obama also sent Joe Biden, who will tell us that the worthless sanctions will somehow work, and that they will work so fast that Iran won’t complete its bomb.

The Israeli foreign ministry is okay with this gross offense.

Israeli participation in the conference is pointless: Jews do not engage in nuclear proliferation.

By exposing Israel’s illegal nuclear program, Obama deliberately puts the Jewish state on the same footing with Iran. Obama’s plan is to prevent Israel from pushing him too hard on Iran.

Those people have already confessed and seek martyrdom, so why waste public money?

Clinton also shared with the world her prediction that a nuclear Iran would prompt Israel to spark a regional arms race. As if the Middle East is not the world’s largest arms importer, anyway.

Fatah has already proved its resilience by accepting the Egyptian terms of reconciliation. It was Hamas that refused to sign the agreement over Abbas’ indecisive position on the Goldstone report.

Obama won’t be able to cut off aid in the event that the terrorist groups reconcile. Today, the US supplies aid even to Hamas-controlled Gaza, and previously provided aid to Fatah-Hamas unity government. The US administration will save face by claiming that it channels money solely to Fatah and not to Hamas’ part of the government.

Sure, let’s do something bold, like abandoning Jerusalem. Perhaps that would please Hamas terrorists enough that they would recognize the State of Israel.

At $130 million a piece, the planes will be too expensive to risk in combat anyway. Israel sees the jets mostly as the only way to spend US military aid which must be used to purchase American armaments. Israel just does not need that many American weapons and routinely uses part of the aid for items which are only nominally military, such as packed foods.

The United States is not going to take the reciprocal measure of closing the bank accounts of Israeli citizens who likewise evade taxes.

The White House claimed the sales are intended to combat Al Qaeda terrorists. Last time we checked, they had no navy. Jews remain the only target for those weapons.

The statement came on the heels of the US military surge in Afghanistan, a green light for the use of US drones in Pakistani airspace against Muslim radicals, and another drone attack in Yemen, which killed the imam who inspired the Fort Hood shooter.

When his peacenik policies fail, Obama may well become hawkish.

The planners must be insane to imagine Iran attacking America. In modern history, Iran has waged no wars of aggression.

The Lebanese government has declared that in wartime Hezbollah will be integrated into the Lebanese army—or rather, it will be allowed to subsume the army it infiltrated long ago.

The Lebanese army’s only target is Israel.

The Hussein sent the Jews ludicrous Hanukkah greetings. He called Hanukkah, a victory of ultra-Orthodox Jews in a brutal civil war against liberals, a festival “for people of all faiths,” though the Maccabeans gladly exterminated those faiths in the Land of Israel.

Without realizing it, Obama gave good advice to real Jews: “May Hanukkah’s lessons inspire us.” Wonderful advice, indeed, for those who know their history.

According to the same poll, 60% of respondents believe that Obama does not support Israel. Thus, 21% of Israeli Jews refuse to dislike a leader who openly dislikes them.

The US Afghani campaign is doomed, just like any war in which the occupier lacks the will to fight properly, regardless of collateral damage.

Quite a lesson to AIPAC.

Obama, too, urged Israel to defend Sderot by any means—when he was here during his election campaign.

Truth be told, Israeli leaders also become dovish and anti-Semitic upon entering office.

The answer is really simple: if a Gazan wants to study in the West Bank, she must register her residence there.

It’s time for the Israeli Embassy in Washington to barrage the White House with humanitarian inquires over poor Mexicans who were refused US visas—or worse, were deported.

The embassy is concerned that the Knesset might hold a ceremony commemorating slain Rabbi Meir Kahane, a former Knesset member. Such ceremonies are customary for all assassinated MKs, but were never held for the Rabbi.

Such is the power of our leader that the enemies of Israel consider him dangerous 19 years after his death.

Any normal country would protest such a blatant intrusion into its affairs, but Knesset Speaker Rivlin has corresponded with the US embassy over this matter.

Other countries may continue to lobby the US administration, no problem.

Even Peres has admitted that the eviction was wrong; thus, Ben Ari should have been right to oppose the police.

Scores of freedom fighters from around the world have had no trouble obtaining US visas despite criminal cases against them.

In truth, Ben Ari couldn’t get a visa for the same reason his mentor Rabbi Kahane was banned from the United States, Canada, and Britain, the same reason that Moshe Feiglin recently encountered a similar ban: the freedom of speech is reserved for the politically correct.

A very long meeting (one hour and forty minutes) followed Obama’s initial refusal to meet Netanyahu.

From the meeting’s secrecy, and the fact that the White House staff did not know until the last minute whether the photo-op would be conducted, we can conclude that the Netanyahu-Obama meeting was largely related to Iran, and that it was very tense.

Bad relations with Obama must be especially insulting to Netanyahu, who highly praised Obama when he was a lowly senator, and predicted his presidency.

Homeland Security is working around the clock to prevent some imagined vigilantes from taking revenge on Muslims.

The Palestinian was overreacting to being posted to Afghanistan. Indeed, sending a devout Muslim into a Muslim country alongside infidel forces is odd.

Obama’s refusal to meet the Israeli PM contrasts with his availability to Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and large political donors.

Obama is equally offended by Israeli and Palestinian rejections of his peace overtures.

Palestinians started demanding the settlement freeze as a precondition only after Obama leaned heavily on Israel to stop the construction. Essentially, Abbas only picked up Obama’s tune that the construction must be stopped immediately.

It would be easy for Obama to change his view, but almost impossible for Abbas to backtrack. If Abbas starts negotiating with Netanyahu despite the ongoing construction, however small, Hamas would trumpet his weakness and further diminish Fatah’s chances in the upcoming elections. To counter Hamas’ propaganda, Fatah will have to employ still more militant rhetoric.

There is nothing to negotiate about: each side knows the other side’s demands. The Palestinians cannot sign peace without the Temple Mount, and the Israeli government is not yet ready to cede it.

Obama’s betrayal of Abbas is similar to his abandonment of Karzai. Rahm Emanuel openly criticizes the embattled Afghani president, Clinton’s political advisor coaches his electoral opponent, and Obama reportedly refuses personal communication with Karzai. No wonder: Obama dislikes Bush’s puppet.

The actual growth for the quarter is below 1%, well within the margin of statistical error.

Much of the growth is attributable to continually high real-estate prices, propped up by the artificially low mortgage rate.

After Bush and Obama’s administrations injected close to two trillion dollars into the economy, production had to respond with a small increase. If anything, the increase is too small for the amount invested.

According to the White House, Wright and Ayers are merely the namesakes of the pastor and leftist.

Hagel has gone on record with seriously anti-Israeli views.

Obama’s readiness to meet with Erdogan contrasts with the numerous delays that occurred before the American president agreed to meet Netanyahu.

The FBI, it turns out, tempted a man who would certainly cooperate with it. Very likely, Nozette participated in the sting knowingly in return for a lenient sentence on his fraud charges.

The only goal of such a sting operation could be to cause negative publicity for Israel.

The case is not unlike Pollard’s—a Jew of known Zionist views was put in charge of Department of Defense information which should have been delivered to Israel but was illegally withheld from her. Pollard was arrested when he provided Israel with information which the US had undertaken to provide but didn’t.

Polls indicate that a mere 4% of Israelis trust Obama.

The only concession wrung from the Palestinians was postponement of the resolution until March.

Ironically, Fatah was Israel’s major ally in waging the war in Gaza.

In fact, the Gush Katif debacle was entirely Sharon’s initiative, and it shocked Bush.