Israel should be careful? Why?

The more this news is being pushed around, it's getting to the point where Obama and his friends seem to want to tell Israel what and what not to do. Is it the United States responsibility to tell Israel what to do? Who gave Obama the right to be a bully? Yet, it seems to not just be Israel either.

clipped from www.jpost.com Indyk warned Israel to take more care in the way it treats its longtime ally, and said the ball was now "in [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu’s court.” “People should understand that an accumulation of these kinds of incidents has being going on a long time,” he said, referring to Israel's announcement of the planned expansion of east Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo during US Vice President Joe Biden's visit last week. “It’s really important to find a way to prevent those that don’t want see this peace process move forward.” He denied that the current tensions were due to a Netanyahu-Obama personality clash. “We cannot remember an instance when such harsh language was directed at a friend and ally of the United States,” the statement continued. “One can only wonder how far the US is prepared to go in distancing itself from Israel in order to placate the Palestinians in the hope they see it is in their interest to return to the negotiating table.”

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