51st: What should Bibi do?
April 28, 2011, 12:25 pm
Posted by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
For all who want to keep abreast of the rip tides in Israel-U.S. relations and Israel-Middle East relations, here is a collection of arguments that you might want to know about.
Paul Pillar, entitled “The Kind of Israel the ME Needs More of.”
Leslie Gelb: “The Israel-Palestine UN Statehood Vote Igniting the Mideast.”
Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., “The Ultimate Ally.”
Stephen Walt critiques Oren’s analysis: “Whiff of Desperation.”
Elliott Abrams, “Bibi’s Choice.” Ari Shavit in Haaretz: Netanyahu Must Choose State over Land.
Just to add the Fatah/Hamas unification wil make bIbi’s presentaions almost impossible to sustain,. The world of the Middle Easrt is rapidl ychanging: and part of the “world gone mad” is Bibi’s insistence on continued building to please his support omn the right.
Surely there’s been a special relationship between the usand Israel, but, unfortunately, that’s been taken to mean friends should not criticize and even back awy sometimes from close firends.