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http://www.jstreetjive.com/2010/04/r...-words-on.html
From news article:
Think tanks and prestigious universities have suddenly decided to publicly question the basic U.S. Israel relationship. At a recent Harvard talk on "Moderating Islam", the consensus at the Kennedy School was that most of our troubles in the War on Terror can be laid at the feet of a misguided foreign policy that favors Israel. In spite of General Petraeus' "clarification" of his staff's report on the causal, dangerous nature of that relationship in Senate testimony, the effects of the report were clear.

We reported here that in order to decipher the underlying animus of Obama towards Israel, we had to look to the voices that are informing him. That view would seem to have been confirmed by recent reports that former administration officials have met with senior Hamas officials in Zurich, Damascus and other venues - clearly with Obama's approval. Robert Malley, the long time apologist for Arafat and Hamas, was central to these meetings as was Thomas Pickering, also a central figure in The International Crisis Group. Considering that Abbas has been fully informed regarding ongoing, previously planned Jewish housing - without any apparent objections until Obama's public condemnation - the administration's overtures to Hamas, his mortal enemy, will be certain to sour the PA on proximity talks. We haven't seen the names Samantha Power of Rashid Khalidi surface yet, but I have no doubt they will in the near future.

Recently senior Fatah official, Nabil Shaath, announced the next Intifada, claiming - this time - it won't be violent (and his word is unimpeachable, of course). Already, rocket attacks from Gaza have escalated, not to mention the fatal confrontation between Hamas combatants and the IDF in an attempted terror attack last week. It's now an open question as to whether the Obama administration's incompetence is outpacing its dislike of Israel.

Look back to Obama's speech in Cairo to the "Muslim World". That speech, written by a Jew and reported here equated Israel's raison d'etre with the Holocaust and its attendant sin, the Arab Nakba; the speech set the tone for U.S. obeisance to the Arab and Muslim world.