'Daylight' returns to US-Israel ties
The gap between the United States and Israel on Iran, in particular, is widening.
Remember the days when Israeli and US leaders routinely declared that there was “no daylight” between them? No longer can such a claim be made. On some of the most critical issues facing the United States — Iran, Palestine and even Ukraine — not only is there “daylight” between respective Israeli and American policies, the gap separating them is increasing.
Anyone listening to the news cannot help but hear the discord in the relationship between the Obama administration and the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As usual, Israeli ministers have been most outspoken on the administration’s shortcomings. US officials are mostly content to mutter disparagingly sotto voce.
Perhaps these contretemps will prove to be easily overcome hiccups.
Possible … but unlikely.
