A Weakened Israel and A Damaged Iran Is Win-Win For Obama. Israel Alone.

Ironically,Obama is expending more energy pressuring Israel than he did in the Security Council,the Human Rights Council or the nuclear-review conference to protect US and Israeli equities. This pattern also typifies Obama and his key advisers: They find it far easier to bed their friends into  submission than to stand up to America’s determined adversaries.

The harm caused by US weakness on the Gaza blockade issue will reach far beyond the Middle East. Worldwide, America’s friends and allies increasingly realize that President Obama won’t stand with them in controversial circumstances. Accordingly, those closest to us will calibrate their own interests more carefully to hedge against US weakness, step by step distancing themselves from us.

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