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I would not think that Obama would do more or less. Other than rhetoric it's hard to see what he has to offer. Now the mainline of people here will interpret that as a conspiracy, that the Israelis secretly control the US government, etc. But in reality there are few practical options. I suppose we could embargo them. Then the US loses a vital intelligence asset. Moreover many US medical and high tech companies would lose going operations there and all the intellectual capital they garner. It seems like an outside option for the US to bomb Israel. They couldn't very well attack IDF ground troops w/o killing the same Palestinians they purport to save. Bombing inside Israel is, what? A rational pragmatic option? In either case we do still only have one President and the shooting will be over by the 20th. After that, who knows?
