You may already have seen this story by Jeffrey Goldberg at Bloomberg. As summarized in the Jerusalem Post,
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Freshly retired US defense secretary Robert Gates was highly critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling him an ungrateful ally and blaming him for diplomatically isolating Israel and hurting American interests, a Bloomberg column revealed Tuesday.Carl at Israel Matzav lays out a penetrating analysis of this development and raises some interesting questions about both Goldberg's approach and the timing of this
But there are two things that bother me greatly about Gates' comments and the way in which Goldberg presented them. First, assuming that his words were accurately portrayed, Gates presupposes that Israel is a client or vassal state to the United States.Indeed we have. Read Carl's full post here.
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Second, I have to wonder about the timing of Goldberg's article. This happened in July. It's now September. Why is this coming out now? (And clearly someone among Gates' confidantes' decided that it should come out now, and called Goldberg and offered him a story). I think when you put it together with Stanley Greenberg's orchestration of the #J14 social protesters, one cannot help but wonder whether the Obama administration has decided to try to undermine Netanyahu's position and his government.
We've seen this before.
