Obama tells US Reform Jews he's as pro-Israel as any previous US Pres

Okay, this may well be a "Ripley: Believe it or Not" moment (I know that Ripley started in the US, but we have one here in London), but President Obama is insisting that he shouldn't be sold short on his support for Israel. Among much else, he "listed areas of close cooperation, including missile defense and Iran sanctions." He does have a point here: Israel, according to a recent news item in The Times (of London, and I can't give a link, because it's behind a pay-wall) has recently taken delivery of some 24 or more new US bunker-busting bombs. These are designed to punch through hardened defences to get at what's below. And we all know that, at present, there can be only one target for these: and it's one of the last two words of the Obama quote above.

So, does this mean that the clear and plain lack of empathy between Obama and Netanyahu is just politics as usual? Possibly. After all, PM Cameron of the UK may just have thrown a spanner into the European Union works over a law change designed to save the Eurozone, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel still phoned him and, apparently, spoke warmly with him: politics as usual. Anyway, judge for yourselves by reading the article from JTA.

By Brian Goldfarb.