The plot thickens and turns "bizarre":..."A Republican invitation for Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race over who will be the first to lay out a new proposal to reopen the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks...."Last November, Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, told Mr. Netanyahu that the new G.O.P. majority in the House would serve as a check on the administration, in a statement that was rare for its blunt disagreement on American foreign policy as conveyed to a foreign leader."

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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