Articles abound about how the US is nervous about the outcome of the recent Israeli elections. Th prospect of a center-right wing government has US officials on edge. Why? After all if the will of the people in Israel decides to vote decidedly for the right wing, what business is it of Washington?

According to a Jpost report: “Still, many political analysts say there’s no doubt the Obama administration would prefer to see a national-unity government headed by Livni. “The impression in Israel is that the Obama administration has already made its preference known and that its preference is for Kadima - and that impression isn’t going anywhere,” said Georgetown University professor and Israel expert Michael Oren. “They’d rather work with a centrist government than a right-wing government.” He added that the preference of the Obama camp, with its interest in intensive diplomacy, was “legitimate,” noting that many Israelis preferred Republican presidential candidate John McCain because they observed a greater alignment of views.”

The fact is that the State Department has had an agenda regarding Israel for decades. They would love for Israel to continue to cede land, in the hope for a peace treaty. the state Department has been blind to the actual condition on the ground. Not wanting to hold the Palestinians accountable for terror, which has scuttled almost all attempts at reaching an agreement.

This arrogance is found in a quote given by Dennis Ross, in the same article. “Dennis Ross, Clinton’s Middle East envoy and likely to be a top regional representative, described Netanyahu as “overcome by hubris” after his first election to the premiership and recalled him being “nearly insufferable, lecturing and telling us how to deal with the Arabs” in his book on the Oslo peace process. ”

With all due respect Mr. Ross, Netanyahu was right, and both Oslo and your policies while in the Clinton administration brought Israeli’s wave after wave of terror. Could it be that you are the one “overcome by hubris?”