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Mark Dubowitz, who's been a key figure in developing the Iran sanctions program, remarked to me, "We do billions of dollars of business with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which practices gender apartheid and uses its petroleum wealth to try and turn the world's Sunni Muslims into hateful, violent, anti-Semitic bigots." But that's the relationship we're nervous about harming.
So it should not be surprising that Obama wouldn't dream of threatening the PA, which is instigating the U.N. gambit, for forcing him to exercise the veto. It's clear why Obama isn't demanding a repudiation of the unity government as a condition of talks. He plainly finds it much easier to savage Israel than to stand up to the Arabs' threats. And of course, in his view, Israel is the stronger power, so it must give up more to level the playing field. As Dubowitz put it, "In the choice between a democratic, pro-American Israel and her enemies, who are also America's enemies, how many Western leaders have the courage to say what Canada's prime minister, [Stephen] Harper, said this weekend at his party's convention: 'Moral ambiguity, moral equivalence are not options, they are dangerous illusions.' " None, it seems.
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