Israel's tail wags the Bush dog

Israel is America's albatross. If anyone thought the dog and pony showw that Bush organised in Annapolis would lead to anything but the same old, same old furtherance of Israel's expansionist designs, he is naive to the extreme. Olmert will expand Israeli settlements in Arab Jerussalem and the conquered west bank, a violation of a basic conditions for resumption of the road map leading to a Palestinian state. Then, Washington is the only country in the UN to vote against that body's budget because it contained funding for a conference on racism to be held in South Africa where surely Israel will be condemned severely for its treatment of Palestians fand its occupaation of the occupiedd territories.
Chutzpah is a word in Yiddish [and Hebrew] for gall. The Israeli state has more than its fair share, it goes without saying. So does Bush when he steadfastly pursues a policy which goes against commonsense and the interests of his own country. The book 'Israel lobby & US foreign policy' kicked up a dust storm of invective against the two university authors. Anti-Semitism got bandied about quite a lot, to distract the public's attention from the book. That hasn't stopped the book's sales. Yet no one in the US has the collective power to tame the Israeli Amok who does what it pleases. Bush could simply issue an order suspending military and economic aid to Israel, a threat Eisenhower used to get Israel out of Suez a halfl century ago. But he won't since he is a blockhead enough to court disaster for his presidency and his people.
It is time for a new US approach to Israel. It is not like Caesar's wife...above suspicion. It's an expansionist state whose appetite won't be slakedl but for strong arm twisting by the US the country which supports its with its own people's taxes and doesn't wait to collect any outstanding debt Israel owes.