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i've been posting stuff about the recent shifts in the obama administration's policy toward israel in the "iran/nuclear threat to israel" thread because, as i argued there, i see a linkage between these changes and the floating of the story about iran over the past 10 days or so.
the shift is pretty significant, at least in appearance: the administration is demanding an end to the settlement program. netanyahu's government has refused to stop it. the obama administration then said it was "willing to press the point."
but the release of infotainment about this tussle was timed out around yesterday's meeting with abbas...
anyway, we're at an interesting moment....rhetorically and in terms of the way israel is framed which follows from that, there is a shift. there is certainly a shift away from the unconditional support of the israeli right/wholesale spinelessness of the bush people.
but how far things will move really....it's hard to say at this point.
first test will be finding out what "pressing the point" means.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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