Even Israel's Best Friends Understand That It Is Disconnecting From Reality - The Atlantic

Building homes for Jews in a disputed part of east Jerusalem

Calling east Jerusalem "our eternal capital" Bibi Netanyahu defended the construction of a large Jewish housing project.  But border maps have never been eternal.  They change.  Leaders who make claims for eternity eventually find themselves contemplating eternity, not reality. - gwc
Even Israel's Best Friends Understand That It Is Disconnecting From Reality - The Atlantic
by Jeffrey Goldberg
 "More proof, if more proof were needed, that there is a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations, and that the crisis goes deeper than simply the dysfunctional personal relationship between Prime Minister Netanyahu's government and the Obama administration (or between their colorful staffs): A lead editorial in The New York Jewish Week, the flagship American Jewish newspaper, center to center-right in orientation, with many thousands of Orthodox Jews among its readers and an ardently pro-Israel editorial line, bluntly asks whether the Israeli government has become unmoored from reality."

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