Tough love

Netanyahu's announcement of new building in East Jerusalem, timed as Obama is meeting with the largest Muslim nation in the world, was criticized by the Obama administration in its usual mealymouthed fashion.

Netanyahu's rejected the criticism, administering another bitchslapping, so what does the administration do? It has Joe Biden declare that the US will support Israel no matter what it does, forever and ever. Joe has an infinite supply of cheeks to turn.

In the strange world of Barack Obama, that is called 'getting tough'.