What is interesting about Gates' comments is not that they're new, because they're not, but why they were made public.
| Several different bright ideas -- or what the denizens of the White House would consider bright ideas -- are proposed as possibly underlying the "Gates says Israel ungrateful ally" story. No mention of lunch with the J Street gang, however. |
Anyone who has paid any attention to Israel-US ties since the start of the "Obibi" era in early 2009, when US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took power in their respective countries, knows well that this relationship has been anything but a honeymoon.
| What is interesting about the Goldberg piece is not the content of what Gates was reported to have said, but rather that someone wanted his having said it to be out there now. One question that has to be asked is why Gates. Why put these words in Gates' mouth. |
Anyone who has paid any attention knows there are wide gaps in the way the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government view the world and the swiftly changing region. |