Thursday, March 25, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Silence that speaks volumes: blackout as Israel's leader leaves White House - 'Two separate meetings between President Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, failed to produce so much as an official photograph as a chill settled over US-Israeli relations and secrecy shrouded any efforts to repair them...White House staff denied Mr Netanyahu the usual photo opportunities afforded to a visiting leader, issued only the vaguest summary of their talks -- let alone a joint statement -- and reversed a decision to release an official photo of their meetings...'
Shameful, shamefully telling, and profoundly so; most certainly so within the context of all else this administration has evidenced.