NYT’s Friedman: Netanyahu gov’t is making rethink of US-Israel ties ‘inevitable
T. Belman. The threat has become a reality. the EU is encouraging the ICC to prosecute Israel’
Also I added a very import comment to this article by Peloni at the bottom.
T. Belman. No doubt, this comes from Biden and it is outrageous, not to mention, bullshit. Israel is accused of undermining our “shared interests”. What, pray tell, are they? He goes to include a breakdown of our “shared values”. What, pray tell, are they”?
At the core of their concern is that Israel no longer maintains “the shared fiction that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was only temporary and one day there could be a two-state solution.” That’s a strange way to put it. He goes on to deliver a threat. ““If Netanyahu’s government is going to behave as if the West Bank is Israel, the US will have to insist of two things.” Read them.
So Biden/Friedman must believe that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is not temporary but a reality and there will never be a two-state solution. I always thought that the State Department considered it a reality, not a fiction. Something to ponder.
Why is the US willing to go to the mat to maintain a fiction?
He also argues that such a policy is destabilizing Jordan and efforts at normalizing relations with SA. Nonsense.
Israel National news also covered this story HERE.
Columnist says Biden administration believes Israeli coalition is using judicial overhaul as cover for ‘unprecedented radical behavior… that is undermining our shared interests’
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman penned a column Tuesday warning that the Biden administration is reassessing its ties with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, amid growing American alarm over the actions of the hard-right Israeli coalition.
Friedman said US President Joe Biden believes the government is using its judicial overhaul push as a smokescreen to engage “in unprecedented radical behavior… that is undermining our shared interests with Israel, our shared values and the vitally important shared fiction about the status of the West Bank that has kept peace hopes there just barely alive.”
Former U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear agreement in the East Room of the White House on July 14, 2015. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.
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