While Vice President Joe Biden (D), President Barack Obama (D) and Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton (D) huff and puff about Israel's publicly announced local zoning concerns, Mideast analyst and researcher Barry Rubin recalls some previous statements from the first three threatening to blow down their straw houses. Here is a short history of this round: October 31, 2009: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lavishly praises Israel as making "unprecedented" concessions in stopping construction on West Bank settlements while it is still going to build in east Jerusalem.November 1, 2009: The U.S. State Department cheers Israel's announcement that it will stop construction on West Bank settlements but not in east Jerusalem: "Today's announcement by the Government of Israel helps move forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."And then of course the huffing and puffing, forgetting about unilateral Israeli sacrificial concessions while...(Read Full Post)