If you can't beat them, join them?

Something happened this spring. Only 30% of Israelis now believe President Obama is pro-Israel. The foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman out of Moldavia, now courts Russia and according to Levy at The New York Times he has the same problem as Putin on dealing with terrorists--double standards from the West in judging methods used.

Europe has not been bad towards Lieberman, they have been ruthless and cold. It is easy to see how Israel might solve its security problem with Iran if it teams up with Russia instead of getting support from the US for an act of aggression against Iran. Ahmadinejad stays and the relationship building with Iran might not work that well, after all, according to Joe Biden this week-end.

Playing the Devil's advocate, with Obama as the Devil, it could be concluded that the friendship with Israel costs a lot. Iraq for example doesn't like Israel and it would be of great importance to better the relationship with its Arabs.

President Obama has recently courted both the Turks and the Egyptians, no great friends of Israel either, countries that are very important for the stability of the Middle East. And the Saudis, which Obama paid a visit to prior to Cairo, do have a lot of oil.

Binyamin Netanyahu's talk yesterday offered a partial agreement with Obama's administration in accepting a two-state solution with a demilitarized Palestine. No concessions, however, were made on Jerusalem or the settlements.

Will Jerusalem end up behind a new iron curtain where Israel joins the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China and Russia), Iran and Syria. Iraq joins the US, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. Arabs in Palestine are already dear friends of the EU and might become truer friends of the US.

Up until now Iraq and Israel have been friends of the US but because of this friendship Arabs as well as Iranians have been reserved. Will the unthinkable actually happen: 5.3m Jews in East Juda, Israel, and 5.3m Jews in West Juda, the US? Including increased anti-semitism for the 1.3m Jews in the EU.