March 19, 2010

Is This How America Treats its Friends?

Max Boot, Los Angeles Times

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Why is the Obama administration so hard on Israel -- the most liberal and pro-American country in the Middle East -- when it's so soft on its despotic neighbors?

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TAGGED: East Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Palestine, Israel

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