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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.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) is surrounded by security guards as he gestures during a visit to a kindergarten on the first day of school in Jerusalem August 27, 2012. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)

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.

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