Begin with a West Bank population that, by the admission of the Palestinian President, is living "a good life." Then build up totally unrealistic expectations about a near-term state and arm them to the teeth as if those expectations were realistic.

Now turn around to the Israelis and say "well, it's true that when we were selling you on this plan we breezily assured you that Palestinian soldiers would never turn our weapons on Israelis - but you never know:"

Beyond Obama's timeline, over the past week, two other developments made it apparent that regardless of what Iran does, the Obama administration will not revise its policy of... weakening Israel rather than on stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons... US Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton, who is responsible for training Palestinian military forces in Jordan, indicated that if Israel does not surrender Judea and Samaria within two years, the Palestinian forces he and his fellow American officers are now training at a cost of more than $300 million could begin killing Israelis. Assuming the veracity of Yediot's report, even more unsettling than Dayton's certainty that within a short period of time these US-trained forces could commence murdering Israelis, is his seeming equanimity in the face of the known consequences of his actions.

The stuff about Dayton is more or less true, though that's been obvious for a long time. But Glick is wrong to imply that this is an Obama policy. Giving security assistance to Fatah ideologues, who are supposed to use their weapons against fanatical but ideologically akin Hamas soldiers - that's a State Department and Pentagon project going back to the Bush administration.

Ditto for arming the Lebanese army, which is supposed to be taking on Hezbollah. Rice pushed that through during her time at State. If you've been nervously waiting for the announcement that the US assistance is getting turned against Israel, you can relax now. I wonder how soon US generals will be telling Israel to make territorial concessions to the Lebanese, lest US-trained and armed LAF soldiers regretfully forget that they're not supposed to target Israelis.

Back in Gaza and the West Bank, only Hamas has openly used hundreds of tons of captured US explosives against Israel. As of January 2009 they still hadn't run out. As far as US-trained Fatah soldiers go, they've only been caught training Hamas soldiers after their President threatened to return to armed struggle.

It's almost difficult to believe that the Israelis don't take US security assurances seriously any more.

References and previously after the jump...