President Carter references that fact that Israel has a
nuclear arsenal of 150 missiles (presumably aimed directly at Tehran), Obama and Hillary vote to authorize
$165 million in new war spending (May 22), Iraqis protest al-Malaki efforts to bi-pass the Iraqi legislature and approve
permanent military bases in Iraq (and Obama says nothing...), Israel announces plans to carry out
new colonial settlements in Palestinian occupied territory in the West Bank (the fourth major colonial expansion since last fall's Annapolis conference), and Obama delivers a very
hard-line address to AIPAC in which he threatens that the US would go to war to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and affirms Israel's exclusive right to Jerusalem, declares the peace process dead - what a week...
(Text of Obama's speech to AIPAC is
here)
But were so busy pouring over red and blue maps, discussing the mechanics of the Democratic rules committee, and entertaining Hillary's pity party that none of the above is "news." That's why they call it "Spectacle."
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