I think that’s absolutely true and it explains why Obamalot’s attempt to sandbag Bibi before he arrived to speak to Congress blew up in their face. Not only did they spend the next few days backing and filling to explain what their leader really meant, the Congress, itself, rebuked them with all those standing ovations for Bibi, who likewise eviscerated Obamalot.
Says Walter Russell Mead: “Obama’s political isolation on this issue, and the haste with which liberal Democrats like Nancy Pelosi left the embattled President to take the heat alone, testify to the pervasive sense in American politics that Israel is an American value. Said the Minority Leader to the Prime Minister: ‘I think it’s clear that both sides of the Capitol believe you advance the cause of peace.’”
Next up, from the so-called Palestinian Arabs, a new intifada. To be answered, undoubtedly, with air strikes and artillery.
UPDATE: New CAMERA Poll finds “The overwhelming majority of American Jews are cognizant of threats to Israel, protective of the country, cautious about risks and strongly opposed to such measures as boycotts, including boycotts of settlements.”
















“a new intifada”
Probably.
“To be answered, undoubtedly, with air strikes and artillery.”
That I doubt.
Well, Hamas favors mortars, rockets and missiles and the best answer to them is, likewise, from the air.