The question is, who will say "Uncle!" first?

I'm betting that it will be the Americans.

However, if Obama does that, if he gives even an inch to Netanyahu, it will
be a clear sign of weakness on Obama's part, and Netanyahu will have won. In
fact, I think that Netanyahu has already won. He has already made it quite
clear -- as he does again in the article below -- that he will not back down
regarding the construction of new housing units in East Jerusalem.

As far as I am concerned, the reason why the Jews are able to push around
and humiliate America, is because America's leaders let them, plain and
simple.

Someone needs to stand up to those stubborn Jews and put them in their
place!

Short of that, I hope that Netanyahu's coalition falls apart over this
issue. The guy needs to be ran out of office!


Israel Feeling Rising Anger From the U.S.

By MARK LANDLER and ETHAN BRONNER - NYT

March 15, 2010


WASHINGTON -- An ill-timed municipal housing announcement in Jerusalem has
mutated into one of the most serious conflicts between the United States and
Israel in two decades, leaving a politically embarrassed Israeli government
scrambling to respond to a tough list of demands by the Obama
administration.

The Obama administration has put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a
difficult political spot at home by insisting that the Israeli government
halt a plan to build housing units in East Jerusalem. The administration
also wants Mr. Netanyahu to commit to substantive negotiations with the
Palestinians, after more than a year in which the peace process has been
moribund.

With the administration's special envoy, George J. Mitchell, suddenly
delaying his planned trip to Israel, the administration was expecting a call
from Mr. Netanyahu, after a tense exchange last week with Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton.

On Monday, however, Mr. Netanyahu sounded a defiant note, telling the
Israeli Parliament that construction of Jewish housing in Jerusalem was not
a matter for negotiation.

He is struggling to balance an increasingly unhappy ally in Washington with
the restive right wing of his coalition government.

The prospects for peace in the Middle East seemed murkier than ever, as a
year's worth of frustration on the part of President Obama and his aides
seemed to boil over in its furious response to the housing announcement,
which spoiled a visit to Israel by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

"What happened to the vice president in Israel was unprecedented," said a
senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"Where it goes from here depends on the Israelis."

But the diplomatic standoff also has repercussions for the Obama
administration. Its blunt criticism of Israel -- delivered publicly by Mrs.
Clinton in two television interviews on Friday and reiterated Sunday by Mr.
Obama's political adviser, David Axelrod -- has set off a storm in
Washington, with pro-Israel groups and several prominent lawmakers
criticizing the administration for unfairly singling out a staunch American
ally.

"Let's cut the family fighting," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman,
independent of Connecticut. "It's unnecessary; it's destructive of our
shared national interest. It's time to lower voices, to get over the family
feud between the U.S. and Israel. It just doesn't serve anybody's interests
but our enemies'."

Relations between Israel and the United States have been uneasy ever since
Mr. Obama took office with a plan to rekindle the peace process by coupling
a demand for a full freeze in Jewish settlement construction with reciprocal
confidence-building gestures by Arab countries.

Neither happened, and Mr. Obama, who is not as popular in Israel as he is
elsewhere around the world, was forced last September to make do with Mr.
Netanyahu's offer of a 10-month partial moratorium on settlements in the
West Bank. But the president was outraged by the announcement of 1,600
housing units in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in East Jerusalem during Mr.
Biden's visit, administration officials said.

Mr. Obama was deeply involved in the strategy and planning for Mr. Biden's
visit and orchestrated the response from Mr. Biden and Mrs. Clinton after it
went awry, these officials said.

The administration has used language intended to telegraph anger, defining
the dispute not only in terms of the damage it could cause to the peace
process but to the American relationship with Israel.

"That is a whole different order of magnitude of importance," said Daniel
Levy, a former peace negotiator who is senior fellow and head of the Middle
East Initiative at the New America Foundation, a research group.

The last time relations between the United States and Israel became this
strained, analysts said, was when James A. Baker, then secretary of state,
clashed with the Israeli government in the early 1990s, also over settlement
policy. The United States ended up withholding loan guarantees from Israel
for a time.

Mr. Netanyahu said the announcement of the housing development had surprised
even him, and he apologized for its timing. But Mr. Obama feels that Mr.
Netanyahu should have been in clearer control of the construction process
and that he should have done what was needed to stop it, according to
officials in Jerusalem and Washington.

There is a feeling among officials in Washington that the Netanyahu
government does not fully grasp how angry Obama officials have grown. But
there are signs that it is sinking in.

The Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael B. Oren, used the word
"crisis" about his country's relations with Washington for the first time
since taking up his job last year, in a telephone briefing to colleagues
over the weekend, according to an Israeli official.

Still, American and Israeli officials also made clear that the core security
issues binding the two countries were not in jeopardy, and that what was
happening was closer to a married couple having a bad fight rather than
seeking a divorce.

In the murky vocabulary of diplomacy, the scheduled talks due to start under
American supervision are viewed by the Israelis mostly as "proximity"
discussions, in other words procedural talks rather than substantive
negotiations. But the Palestinians want the discussions to be as substantive
as possible, an approach Mrs. Clinton demanded in her call to Mr. Netanyahu
on Friday.

The Israeli leader has said he is open to direct negotiations with the
Palestinians. But the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said in an
interview in his Ramallah office that the Palestinians and Israelis had
exhausted direct negotiations and that it was time for America to take a
more direct role. "We have a trust level below zero between the two sides,"
he said.

The settlement episode has enabled the administration to turn the tables on
Mr. Netanyahu, some analysts say. But the question is whether it will be
able to extract more concessions from him now.

"The heart of the matter is whether the proximity talks are going to be
productive, in the sense of opening a corridor to direct negotiations that
will lead to a peace agreement," said Martin Indyk, a former American
ambassador to Israel.

The timing of the dispute could not be more awkward for the administration,
coming a week before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most
influential pro-Israel lobbying group, meets in Washington. Mr. Netanyahu
and Mrs. Clinton are both scheduled to speak to the group, which has
condemned the White House's tough stance.

Mr. Biden may meet with Mr. Netanyahu while he is here, officials said. But
there is no meeting planned between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu because the
president will be traveling in Indonesia and Australia, a conflict which one
official joked suits the administration well right now. "This may not be the
best time for a face-to-face," he said.



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