Will this U.S.-Israel crisis go to waste?
Looking back at previous U.S.-Israel rifts, the real question isn't whether this one's the harshest (it's not) but whether Obama will take advantage of it.
By Gershom Gorenberg 1
During the Gaza War, the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government became the very worst of friends. There was the phone conversation – leaked to a reporter, then denied by both sides – in which President Obama allegedly told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel must unilaterally stop fighting. There was

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Materialien von Haaretz aus Israel. Da von Deutschland nichts mehr kommt, was uns anginge. Und wer sonst müsste jetzt -aussser den Juden selbst- reden. Vielleicht unser grösstes Versagen, neben dem Verlust der Identität. In Denken und Tun. In der Kunst.