East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem housing, the State Department and the Three Stooges

Submitted by James Besser on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 13:01

What is it about Joe Biden and East Jerusalem housing announcements?

The Israelis did it again on the eve of the Vice-President's meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the results were as predictable as a Three Stooges script: the Israelis announced plans for more than 1300 new apartments (the bonk on Biden's head), the State Department  reflexively emitted a shopworn protest (the poke in the eye), commentators commented (picture Curly woob-woob-woobing) and then everybody went about their business.

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