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Real Tensions Btw Israel and DC
By Micah Halpern

Friday May 8, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

There are serious murmurs about tensions and lack of coordination between the new Israeli administration under Bibi Netanyahu and the relatively new United States administration under Obama.
People are worrying.

This is not a judgment based on a comparison between old administrations and new administrations.
It is a true and significant series of questions about teamwork.
The problem is not Israel, it is Washington.

Washington is not telling Israel what it wants.
Washington is not coordinating messages or articulating expectations.
Jerusalem is in the dark about some very important issues.

For example:
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Nuclear Issues, Rose Gottemoeller, called on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States blind sighted Israel, making a demand and never even broaching the subject with Israel.

For example:
The United States sent special envoy Dennis Ross to the region to work on Shiite-Sunni tensions between Iran and her neighbors. And Ross did not brief Israel, not before the meeting and not after.

In the past, even during periods of tensions, Israel and the US coordinated large issues. Why? Because of their obvious, mutual interests.
Now, when there is no reason for tension between the two countries, the White House and Jerusalem are not on the same page, they are sharing neither agendas nor priorities.
Israel is still standing.
But Israel is standing alone.

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