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in Bloomberg (from The Atlantic’s Iraq War booster Jeffrey Goldberg) ..

Obama said privately and repeatedly, “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” With each new settlement announcement, in Obama’s view, Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation .. On matters related to the Palestinians, the president seems to view the prime minister as a political coward .. Obama, since his time in the Senate, has been consistent in his analysis of Israel’s underlying challenge: If it doesn’t disentangle itself from the lives of West Bank Palestinians, the world will one day decide it is behaving as an apartheid state

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