[SUNTIMES] At a time when Islamist fanaticism is roiling the Middle East and the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
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is on the march in Syria and Iraq, the B.O. regime insults Israel, our only reliable ally in the region, by mocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a barnyard epithet for coward. Disrespecting a friend is no way to conduct foreign policy or impress allies in these troubled times.
The outburst by unnamed officials is only the latest sour exchange in what has seemed for some time like a deteriorating relationship.
Even the best of allies have disagreements. The White House and State Department have long complained about Israeli construction in disputed territories in the West Bank. Such building is, in my view, far from the central roadblock to peace negotiations that President Barack Obama
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and his diplomats portray it. Still, an argument can be made that the government of Netanyahu hasn't been sensitive to Washington's perspective.