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What Would Ike Do?

• antiwar.com

How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has been on painful display this March.

An Israeli leader told a joint session of Congress that President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is stupid and dangerous and must be rejected. Congress gave him 40 ovations.

Bibi Netanyahu then went home and told the world there will be no Palestinian state, and was re-elected in a smashing victory.

"Perhaps it's time for Americans, especially those in the White House, to recognize this new reality of Israeli politics," says The Wall Street Journal. We should restore "Israeli confidence in U.S. support."

Excuse me? Who is the senior partner here? Who needs whom more?

Israel is entitled to choose its own leaders, who are entitled to make their own policy. But that goes for us as well.


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