US-Israeli Relations in Crisis? No!
Through a simple process of empirically based elimination we can isolate "The Crisis." It goes by the name of Benjamin Netanyahu, Alon Pinkas writes for Al-Monitor. His toxic and definitely devoid-of-trust relationship with President Obama goes back to May 2009. But there's no crisis between the two countries and its other players.
First, there was "a crisis." Then, there was "the worst crisis in US-Israel relations ever." Now, a mere 36 hours later, the "crisis recedes."
An alien with nothing better to do but to scan the Israeli media in the last 10 days would be compelled to report to the Council of Sages of his home planet that it seems that two countries, the United States and Israel are on the brink of "a major crisis." If that alien neglected to do his reading on US-Israel relations in the last 40 years and rely only on his media survey, he should be excused for reporting back that these two countries are in the midst of a full-scale nasty diplomatic conflict over an issue called Iran.
Furthermore, the perplexed alien briefed the Council that he witnessed a strange form of humanoid diplomacy, certainly between two self-proclaimed "unshakeable allies": The entire "crisis" takes place in the media. Do they not converse with each other? He was asked. Not the leaders, from what I gather, he replied.
In fact, he reported, something strange is happening. The president of the United States, a superpower on that particular planet, is providing unprecedented military, technological and diplomatic assistance to the small country, Israel. Yet the leader of Israel persists in treating that American president as hostile, quietly accusing him of not caring and sacrificing Israel's security and almost openly endorsing his rival for the presidency.
