Ok, this is actually more interesting than I thought.
Biden throwing a fit because he was publicly embarrassed - that is expected, and just as easily forgotten.
But this, on the other hand:
The Petraeus briefing: Biden?s embarrassment is not the whole story, by Mark Perry | The Middle East Channel
Quote:
The team had been dispatched by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. The 33-slide, 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM's mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region, and that Mitchell himself was (as a senior Pentagon officer later bluntly described it) "too old, too slow ... and too late."
The January Mullen briefing was unprecedented. No previous CENTCOM commander had ever expressed himself on what is essentially a political issue
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Notably, it seems Petraeus wants to shift the West Bank and Gaza to CENTCOM (they fall under EUCOM right now), and in a break from tradition, has expressed serious concern over Israeli intransigence.
I'm not entirely sure, but this feels new.