From NYPost
From Washington to the United Nations to Brussels, administration officials are resuming America's traditional role as Israel's sole defender in times of crisis.
The coordinated international assault on the Jewish state was launched with a 13-hour UN Security Council session lasting until the wee hours yesterday, and continued in a hastily arranged meeting of NATO members. In both cases, deft US diplomats found creative ways to prevent explicit criticism of Israel.
Most remarkably, America's UN diplomats under the sure hand of Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff were able to nix Turkey's call to establish a Turtle Bay-led investigation into the deaths of the nine "Marmara" activists Monday.
| President Obama cannot be seen by American voters as acting against Israel. And, it's lovely that he is preventing actions against Israel. However, he was the one who created the situation in which the various parties felt free to do and say... and the perception is that his behaviour now is a political kabuki rather than firm belief, and so will last no longer than the news cameras are rolling. |
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