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Is Obama "Interfering" in Israel?

Obama's domestic policy of drastically bigger government will be a disaster for individual liberty, but he is the first president in many years to put pressure on Israel to stop expanding settlements and to really advocate for a Palestinian state. For that he has been criticized by neoconservatives and some Democrats alike. He's even been accused of "interfering" in Israeli politics. Glenn Greenwald exposes that assertion as a myth and points to the positive impact Obama's Middle East initiative may have on America's standing in the world.

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George Washington on Israel


"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification." ~George Washington Farewell Address


"The nation which indulges toward another habitual hatred or habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interests." ~ George Washington


"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Is it possible not to interfere with a client state? The only way we could not "interfere" with Israel is to stop foreign aid.

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