The more I read about these outlandish recommendations, the more I think that the WH is suckering everyone in: the ISG, the Dems, etc. The President can then nobly say that he is "not going to abandon our Israeli friends, as some in both parties would have me" and "will not cave in to foreign oil money". "Instead I will serve the interests of America and stay the course."
Give this two weeks and we may hear this ... I dearly hope.