Justin Raimondo: The Israeli Lobby Takes the Offensive!

When the President of the United States reiterates longstanding American policy in the Middle East - that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, was he really NOT surprised, as he claimed in his speech to AIPAC a few days later, by the ensuing uproar? That is what he said, but the reality is harder to discern: In America, the power of the Israel Lobby is much greater than at any time in the past, and certainly since the 1967 war. Here in this country, we are faced with the weird spectacle of a US President confronting a foreign leader with a list of reasonable requests: Negotiation in good faith, the abandonment of encroaching settlements, an end to the arbitrary humiliations endured by a people under occupation, and the leaders of of the opposition are taking the side of the foreign of the foreign leader! Romney, Huckabee, and the whole Fox network team went into overdrive, flaying our president for "betraying" Israel. Gee, I was under the impression that Obama was "our" president. Of course I could be wrong: The Israelis think of him as a puppet they can play with, and there may be some truth in that assumption!