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Leon T. Hadar

Senior Analyst, Wikistrat

Echoes of China Opening in Iran Detente: It's the Interests, Stupid!

Posted: 10/11/2013

For years the expectations among many American foreign policy pundits has been that tensions over Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, including the continuing buildup of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, would ignite an explosive crisis in the relationship between the two governments that could force Washington to distance itself from Jerusalem.
Under that scenario, Israeli annexationist policies and the evolution of an Apartheid-like system in Greater Israel would eventually produce some sort of American disengagement from Israel along the lines of the collapse of the U.S. partnership with the white-minority government in South Africa.
But that kind of thinking disregarded some basic facts in the reality of U.S.