"U.S. pressure can work, but it needs to be at the right time, on the right issue and in the right political context," said Robert Malley, a peace negotiator in the Clinton White House. "The latest episode was an apt illustration. The administration is ready for a fight, but it realized the issue, timing and context were wrong. The crisis has been deferred, not resolved." Kessler
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People who think the Israelis and their agents of influence succeeded in dominating the Obama Administration in this matter are wrong. What they succeeded in doing is to make a lot of people look like their loyalties are anything but undivided. This is a very dangerous thing to do. The spectacle of the AIPAC delegates wildly applauding Bibi's defiance the the president of the United States was enlightening for many.
Before his visit I said that Natanyahu was not concerned because he thinks he run the US. His behavior here as well as that of his allies, confirmed that view. pl
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