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We love you; why can’t you love us (or, anyway, why can’t you love our president)?
That’s one message, anyway, to take from some polls released this week. Gallup sees record-high support: 63 percent are more sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinian Authority. According to a TIPP poll, 56 percent of Americans (and 43 percent ...

• U.S. envoy George Mitchell, scheduled to head to the region today in advance of the proximity talks, has put his trip on hold pending an Israeli response to U.S. concerns. [AP/Gulf News]
• U.S. diplomats want Prime Minister Netanyahu to quash the 1600 planned new houses in East Jerusalem; however, in a speech, Bibi noted ...

• Both Israel and the United States have reason to convince the world that the former will bomb Iran, against the latter’s wishes. Actually, though, the two are cooperating on the subject ever more closely (with bombing relatively unlikely). [NYT]
• Syria accused Israel of planting uranium traces at the suspicious compound that IDF planes bombed ...

Last Friday afternoon, we worried that high tensions between Israel and Syria—most immediately prompted by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s threats to Syrian leader Bashar Assad—could lead to violence. Well, fortunately, they haven’t so far, and hot tempers have appeared to cool over the weekend. Which can allow us now to focus on the broader question ...

• In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama vowed that Iran’s leaders “will face growing consequences” for flouting international nuclear agreements; on this issue, he said, “the international community is more united.” He did not mention Israel in the speech. [JPost]
• Meanwhile, at the United Nations the administration will propose a ...