FROM THE ANGLOSPHERE TO THE BAATHOSPHERE:

Rules of game changing: Israelis officials can’t keep up with dramatic changes in America’s Mideastern policy (Shimon Shiffer, 05.03.09, YNet)

The reports about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Syria left Israeli policy makers stunned.

“What’s going on here?” asked a senior figure in Jerusalem last night. “The Syrians are not providing reasons that could justify the rush of administration emissaries to visit Damascus. The Syrian regime continues its involvement in Iraq and enables terrorists to cross the border and carry out attacks against the US Army. The Syrians bribe anything that moves in Lebanon in order to affect the election results there.”

In Israel, it appears that officials can’t keep up with the dramatic changes that are taking shape in America’s foreign policy in the Middle East. The intimate relations with the US, at least the way it seems right now, are no longer what they used to be.

The Israelis have no one to blame but themselves, having played footsie with Damascus and attacking Palestine when the opposite was sage policy.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 3, 2009 11:33 AM