Nicholas Kristof has this right; even Nicholas Kristof! "Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems locked in a self- defeating dynamic in which it feels misunderstood and gives up on international opinion. It lashes out with force in ways that undermine its own interests. It is on a path that could eventually be catastrophic."....for the United States as well as Israel. Will Obama's support of Netanyahu be his single largest step in the wrong direction? Or will he pull a peace agreement from this?http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/opinion/03kristof.html?scp=4&sq=Nicholas%20Kristoff&st=cse

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

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