Thursday, March 11, 2010

The worrisome Israel-Palestinian tension ... and the US' role

The following map is from Professor Juan Cole's blog, Informed Comment

In a related post on Biden's visit to Israel, Cole writes:
Obama is in real danger of seeing his allies lose respect for the United States once they see that Israel can treat him in this humiliating way with impunity. The security implications for the US are enormous. Many European allies feel strongly that Israel is an aggressor state in the region, and when Obama asks them for help in the fight against al-Qaeda, they may feel that Washington's coddling of Israeli colonialism produced much of the radicalism that they are now asked to spend blood and treasure combating. Moreover, many leaders may be emboldened to treat Obama and Biden just as Netanyahu did, if the latter faces no consequences for his impudence.
and provides this news clip:

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