Israel and the Settlements

Joe Klein from Time magazine has a good piece on the issue of Israel's continued building of settlements in the occupied territories, and the Obama administration's decision to publicly call for them to stop doing so...

Its been at least a decade since an American president has taken a firm stand against the extreme right in Israel.  

With regards to the Palestinian issue and foreign policy in general, the Bush administration was nothing more than a de-facto organ of Israel's right wing Likud party.

That strategy did not work.

Change.