Give In To A Bully Once...

...And they will keep taking and taking and taking from you. Case in point: less than 24 hours after the Israel lobby killed the appointment of Chas Freeman and they have seen how easy it is to roll Obama, they have moved on to their next issue -- getting the Rosen/Weismann AIPAC spy case thrown out. The Washington Post editorial board is more or less demanding AG Eric Holder drop the case immediately, and given the usual M.O. of the Israel lobby, there's a very good chance that the case will indeed be thrown out now.

As Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com points out,

The president's left-wing supporters want action on the Israeli-Palestinian front, and expectations are high: a new understanding of the "special relationship" is a prerequisite for success. Yet the administration is extraordinarily sensitive to criticism from the Israel lobby, which has gone on a jihad against Freeman, throwing everything in the book at him, and then some. The chosen theme of their hate campaign, in this case, is to portray Freeman as an agent of foreign powers – Saudi Arabia and China, so far. This charge, coming from the Israel lobby, is a hoot and a half – especially when one considers that the first voice to be raised against Freeman belonged to none other than Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC top lobbyist awaiting trial on charges of espionage on behalf of Israel (see this timeline).

And now we see the other shoe drop: drop Freeman, then drop the Rosen case.

Once again, one has to ask who is running America's foreign policy, and the answer isn't America. I'm hoping that Holder will resist the WaPo's ludicrous call to do it, but I would bet money that the case will be dismissed pretty soon.

After all, Israel's new government has a United States of America to run.