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Creationism at the Huffington Post

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MJ7/03/2010 2:52:25 pm PDT

For those who still think Obama’s policy toward Israel isn’t much different than other Presidents, perhaps they’d like to explain this?

Nudge on Arms Further Divides U.S. and Israel

WASHINGTON — It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons. But it has become the latest source of friction between Israel and the United States in a relationship that has lurched from crisis to crisis over the last few months.

At a meeting to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in May, the United States yielded to demands by Arab nations that the final document urge Israel to sign the treaty — a way of spotlighting its historically undeclared nuclear weapons.

Israel believed it had assurances from the Obama administration that it would reject efforts to include such a reference, an Israeli official said, and it saw this as another sign of unreliability by its most important ally. In a recent visit to Washington, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, raised the issue in meetings with senior American officials. ..

nytimes.com

This is the second “assurance” that this White house has broken with Israel. The broke the agreement over the Gaza withdrawal letter signed by Bush and now this.