<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Israel Is A&nbsp;Country]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>by Zack Beauchamp</em></span></p> <p>Jennifer Rubin, who can be reliably counted on to misinform about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has an item <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/its-a-fact-us-israel-relations-at-low-ebb/2011/03/29/gIQAtHov8H_blog.html?wprss=right-turn" target="_self">defending</a> the standard Republican <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obama-and-israel-stalled-diplomacy-or-suspicion-and-distrust/2011/07/08/gIQAwJwa4H_blog.html" target="_self">line</a> on Obama&#39;s Israel policy:</p> <blockquote> <p>The usually decisive Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler finds it  impossible, however, to score the validity of some rather commonplace  criticisms of President Obama by pro-Israel critics of the president.  (Mitt Romney, for example: “He’s treating Israel the same way so many  European countries have: with suspicion, distrust and an assumption that  Israel is at fault.”)</p> <p>Perhaps if we recalled that this president “condemned”  settlement-building in Jerusalem, refused to confirm the 2004  Bush-Sharon letters and told American Jews to go “self-reflect” on their  attitudes toward the Jewish state, it might be easier simply to come  out and say: They’ve got a point.</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>