Used to be additional mortar and tank rounds were provided on Israel’s request. Now they, and more Hellfire missiles, require specific review by the Great Divider.
“A top Israeli official said the rift runs [deep]. ‘We’ve been there before with a lot of tension with us and Washington. What we have now, on top of that, is mistrust and a collision of different perspectives on the Middle East,’ the official said. ‘It’s become very personal.'”
“According to US officials cited in the Wall Street Journal report, the Wednesday night phone call between Obama and Netanyahu was ‘particularly combative.'”
Yeah, I’ll bet. Which underscores previous reports (officially denied) of Obamaloot’s imperious “demand” that Bibi halt Israel’s Gaza op.
Via Wall Street Journal and Artuz Sheva
UPDATE: “We have to become more reliant on our defense and weapons capabilities and less on the United States, at least so long as this administration is in power. ‘Most pro-Israel administration evah’? You got to be kidding.”
MORE: Of course when he’s caught out, the Worm immediately pleads misunderstanding. Self-reliance would be best, however, since American pols can no longer be trusted to stick in private to policies stated in public. In other words, they’re liars.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
It takes awhile for people to wake up to the obvious. Israel isn’t alone in this blindness.
Nope, and the Worm will be calling the shots for another 2.5 years, rounded.
They (Israel) is bound to have been looking elsewhere since 2008 for alternate sources of weaponry. Surely.
You would think so, wouldn’t you.
Even I would have done that preparation. And I am not NEARLY as smart as the guys running Israel.
“And I am not NEARLY as smart as the guys running Israel.” That I am absolutely not sure about.
As for the delays with weaponry supplies, USPS stopping mail service, FAA ban etc: all these have a lot of State Dept fingerprints. It is not the first (or last) time State Dept uses this “small nudges” tactics to make us toe the line.
True and it has happened under GOP admins, too, the elder Bush being a good example. His Secstate Baker despised Israel. All the more reason to have alternate suppliers or to roll your own. I bet Egypt would go for a quiet deal on its Hellfires.