Ocular Inversion => Morality Inversion

The May 31st edition of The Jerusalem Post carried this stunning article.

The US administration prepared a list of sanctions it would impose against Israel if Israel refuses to implement the 'road map'.

US officials said the sanctions list includes a reevaluation of Israel's use of US-made weapons in the Palestnian territories, and the withholding of emergency aid, reported Army Radio.

The threat of sanctions was delivered to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weisglass during his talks in Washington.

According to Army Radio, a top US Congressional source said that the US administration was angry about the delays in implementing the 'road map' because it sees success in Mideast peacemaking as an important element in George W. Bush's reelection campaign.

What is the administration thinking?! This moral ambiguity only hurts Bush's stance in other parts of the world. This will only hurt Bush in his reelection campaign. The people he is counting on as his bedrock support will stay away from the polls. And he won't pickup any additional support from the left either. As we know, those who will be kind when they should be cruel will be cruel when they should be kind.

UPDATE: The WP carries this quote:

One pro-Israeli source in touch with administration officials attributed the initial White House criticism of Israel to a "human reaction" after administration officials awoke to discover that the glow of last week's Middle East summits attended by Bush had been shattered by the Israeli strike against Hamas official Abdel Aziz Rantisi. "But by Wednesday they realized it was not the natural place of the United States to rush to the defense of Rantisi," he said.

Let's hope so.