Source: Asia Times:
By M K Bhadrakumar
As tensions mount in the coming hours and days with the Israeli troops and tanks advancing toward Gaza menacingly, United States President Barack Obama begins to realize that he has a forked tongue.
Gaza becomes the litmus test of what he can claim to be as a statesman and what he cannot be in political reality.
For Obama, there is no running away from the reality that he has been hiding his head ostrich-like from the day he left Cairo in 2009 after making a magnificent speech there on the Palestinian problem.
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