"The Administration should make a conscious effort to move away from public demands and unilateral deadlines directed at Israel, with whom the United States shares basic, fundamental, and strategic interests," continued the statement.
"The escalated rhetoric of recent days only serves as a distraction from the substantive work that needs to be done with regard to the urgent issue of Iran's rapid pursuit of nuclear weapons, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and all her Arab neighbors." Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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What are those listed interests?
I have finally become convinced that this is a major crisis in US/Zionist relations. I describe the crisis in that way because AIPAC's preference for Israel in this matter makes this a controversy not just between the Jewish state and the US, but also a conflict between Israel's international supporters and the US. The warning contained in this AIPAC statement is largely directed to its agents in the Congress and the media.
The AIPAC annual conference is impending. Natanyahu is coming. If he wanted to resolve this problem on any basis other than humiliation of the United States he would stay home, but he will not because that is what he wants. He wants to demonstrate the subordination of the US to Israel.
What sort of reception will he get from AIPAC? AIPAC is an instrument of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. The differences between the Jewish Agency and the Israeli government are obscure and ambiguous.
What will be the reaction of the Obama Administration to Natanyahu triumphally striding the halls of Congress? pl
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