[TheRealThing]

There's that song by Jim Croce I'm sure many of you have heard..

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim.

In other words, you don't mess around with Israel. It looks like the administration is not going to press deeply into finding out who made the comment. This administration has made apologizing a common part of our foreign policy. Let's see how quick they are to issue an apology to Benjamin Netanyahu and to Israel, if at all.

I can't help but harken back to the last Presidential campaign. Mitt Romney was making some real hay visiting Israel and meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. As I recall promising the Israeli leader that the US would stand with Israel shoulder to shoulder. Well, that woke up the Dems and the next thing you know Obama was talking like he'd like to have a pup out of ol Netanyahu. Yeah, 4 years of being kept in the political deep freeze and all of a sudden Obama was all-in buddies with Israel. Then he got reelected.

Since that time we have seen Israel castigated by administration officials for their war with Hamas resultant from the 3,000 plus rockets they shot into Israel. And according to a recent article by Jeffrey Goldberg, much is being made about Netanyahu being called a chicken s**t by an administration official. But eclipsing that is the revelation made by his associate, essentially admitting that the US had pressured Netanyahu not to attack Iran, and that now it was too late anyway. (So, it's a good thing that Iran will soon have nuclear weapons?) Welcome to your "if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance" Mr Netanyahu!