America Getting Fed Up with Israel

In the past few weeks, a number of threatening messages have arrived in Jerusalem from the White House. The U.S. president's top adviser, Rahm Emanuel, was quoted by our diplomats in Washington as having said that Obama was tired of both the Israelis and the Palestinians. Emanuel reportedly told them something to the effect that they were wasting precious time and missing the opportunity to reach peace. Eventually the United States will simply give up, stop dealing with this interminable conflict and we leave Israel alone, he reportedly said.

These worrisome warnings were also reflected in a column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman, in which he proposed that U.S. President Barack Obama wash his hands of our conflict and follow in the footsteps of former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, who once told Israel's leaders to call the White House's switchboard once they got serious.