Are the U.S. and Israel Heading for Divorce?
Posted by The MaryHunter at June 27, 2010 3:33 PM In short: probably. Just a week before Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Bumbling Obama in the White House, Israel’s ambassador to the United States is not all that up about the staying power of Israel’s longest and closest relationship with another nation. Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, told foreign ministry colleagues at a private briefing in Jerusalem that they were facing a long and potentially irrevocable estrangement. Sources said Mr Oren told the meeting: “There is no crisis in Israel-US relations because in a crisis there are ups and downs. [Instead] relations are in a state of tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart.” […] According to Mr Oren, attempts to gain leverage over President Obama through some of his “pro-Israel” aides – believed to be a reference to Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief-of-staff, and Dennis Ross, a senior State Department official – had failed. “It’s a
