The chickenshit kerfluffle might be a little bit bullshit. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters[/caption]Is the US-Israel relationship in crisis? The prominent journalist Jeffrey Goldberg the man a White House aide once called the official therapist of the relationship seems to think so.
But while most coverage of Goldbergs longarticle in The Atlanticrevolves around an unnamed official calling Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu chickenshit which the Obama administration spent two days disavowing lost in the pearl-clutching is the insightful look at how Netanyahus policies on Iran are a direct affront on American interests.
Even most of the rest of chatter about the story focused on Israels expansion of settlement plans in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a sore spot in the so-called special relationship between the US andIsrael. Settlements are certainly an effective test of Israels intentions in the peace process (and the US would be remiss to not denounce their expansion as harmful to prospects for peace).
This article was written byAli Gharib for the opinion page of The Guardian on OCT. 30, 2014. Ali Gharib is an independent journalist based in Brooklyn working on US foreign policy.
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