Does Obama really want to take on Israel?
The signs are that Barack Obama won’t try to break Israel’s stranglehold on Washington
It is no exaggeration to claim that the eyes of the world will be focused on Washington on Tuesday. The dimensions of the crisis in the US and the world that Barack Obama inherits from George Bush are almost unimaginable. America is broke, is up to its neck in two unwinnable wars and has managed to alienate even its closest friends and allies.
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