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US-Israel relations ‘ticking time-bomb’, analyst says

Sunday, 01 February 2015 10:30 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 02 February 2015 1:12 AM ]

US President Barack Obama (right) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The US relationship with Israel is similar to a “ticking time-bomb” that threatens the whole world and may cause it to “perish,” an author and radio host in Chicago says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a “ticking cluster-bomb, unleashing his lethal force bit by bit by bit, drop by drop by drop,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Sunday.

Netanyahu imposed “a war of aggression on Gaza, multiple daily examples of state terror across the West Bank and East Jerusalem (al-Quds), all sorts of crimes on a daily basis,” Lendman said.

“As long as US-Israeli dominated Western relations continue, the world faces a choice, it will either find a way to change this or it will perish,” he warned.

Lendman said despite the strained ties between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama, “US-Israeli relations seem to go along pretty seamlessly regardless.”

On Sunday, Republican Senator John McCain blasted Obama for damaging Washington’s ties with Tel Aviv, describing those ties as the “worst” he’s ever seen them.

"It's the worst that I've ever seen in my lifetime," the 78-year-old McCain said, adding that no other president "has had such a difficult relationship with Israel."

The relations between Washington and Tel Aviv have been icy over a number of issues, including the Obama administration’s criticism of Israel’s settlement projects in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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