Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Last week as Netanyahu, leader of Israel's rightist coalition, literally spit in Obama's face, sneeringly rejecting the president's pleas to create a viable Palestinian state. Vice President Joseph Biden was earlier humiliated on a trip to Israel to plead with Israel to stop building Jewish settlements. By caving in to Israel's hard right over the West Bank, Obama sends a message of profound weakness to the rest of the world. |