...there are two broad principles at stake here.
The first is the question of whether Obama can get away with deliberately flouting U.S. agreements made by his predecessor, acknowledging Israel’s right to hold on to the main settlement blocs close to the 1967 borders (many of which are merely close suburbs of Jerusalem). How can Obama expect Israel to make good on past promises about removing outposts if the U.S. is going back on its word on related issues? [what I wrote, too, regarding the Road Map]
The second is, as Netanyahu has asserted, the unreasonable nature of a demand that Jews be prevented from building in existing neighborhoods in places that no Israeli government would give up. The international community considers it an outrage that Arabs in Jerusalem are compelled to get building permits for building additions to their homes and protest when illegal building is demolished. But at the same time they call for the demolishing of nearby Jewish developments.
and he adds:
what pro-Israel Jewish Democrats, who dismissed Republican assertions that Obama was insincere in his support for Israel, think about all this now.
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