Though the 29 December Philip Gordon NYT article attempts objectivity, it is incorrect in its sweeping assumptions that "the world" sides with Obama on key points, even on the wisdom of the Iran deal, as well as the assumed condemnation of "the world" of the "settlements" and the U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem. Hey: The New York Times has deposited so much silt onto both Trump's win and the alleged negatives of Israel and our alliance with her that it could rival China for establishing new geopolitical islands in the withersphere.  It could set up cannon and missile emplacements on the cold new real estate of vitriol versus the good guys. Gordon gets wrong, though he ought not, after 15 years have passed and the correction has been made (umpteen plus five times) that Ariel Sharon's accompanied trek to our holiest site (they always mention the Islamic name for the Temple Mount, though it is way down at third, and from my...(Read Full Post)