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Snippits, article at source A few pointers for the Obama administration on the diplomatic crisis with Israel: 1. I don't support Netanyahu... 2. As far as anyone can tell, Netanyahu was unaware of the Regional Planning Council's decision... 3. It is fair to assume that the Obama administration made a calculated decision to attack Netanyahu, based partly on the presumption of support from the Israeli public... 4. Attempts to imply that Israeli policy is endangering the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and even Iraq, verge on an insult to the intelligence - U.S. citizens particualrly... 5. But perhaps what...

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, yesterday distanced himself from his brother-in-law's accusation that Barack Obama is an antisemite who hates Israel. The family back-and-forth came as King Abdullah of Jordan added to pressure on Israel over its settlements policy, demanding the international community take firm action over what he called the "red line" of Jerusalem. Hagai Ben-Artzi, the husband of the Israeli premier's wife, said on Israeli Army Radio that the US president dislikes Netanyahu and the Israeli people because he had spent years in the church of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who he said is "antisemitic, anti-Israeli, and anti-Jewish."...