“Having more or less assured his old pal Bibi and his new pal Sheldon that he wouldn’t mind if the Israelis took matters into their own hands and launched a military strike on Iran’s nuclear-research installations, what better way to whip up more support among conservative American Jews than by getting into a spat with the Palestinians?

In this way, and in others, the U.S. Presidential election is coming to resemble a local race in New York or Florida. What next? Will Romney fly back to Israel and visit a settlement? Will he persuade his wife to pull her horse Rafalca out of the Olympics dressage contest on the grounds that the International Olympic Committee refused to hold a minute of silence for the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian Black September group at the 1972 Munich Olympics? Will the Mittster refuse to attend the Games himself?”
— Interesting questions for Mitt. [The New Yorker]