Exciting conspiracy theories continue to buzz in my head. First, a fact - Israelis are not stupid. So announcing the building of 1600 new houses in East Jerusalem while Vice President, Joe Biden was officially visiting the country was no accident. Prime Minster, Netanyahu claims to have been blindsided by the right wing Shaas Party but does not deny the statement. So why would Israel choose to insult its closest ally and donor so blatantly? This is no throwing of shoes by a lone journalist but a deliberate insult to the Obama government. Is it because the Israeli government sees the Obama administration as accepting Iran developing nuclear weapons so long as it does not support the Taliban in Afghanistan? That would be an existential threat to Israel. Perhaps Israel would like the Republicans to win big in the November elections so that Obama is hamstrung and then defeated two years later. Israel has been claiming that Iran will be able to develop nuclear warheads in one year's time. Recent reports that Pakistan supplied Iran with centrifuges and drawings of nuclear weapons makes Ahmadinejad a liar in his claims that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.Israel would like to attack Iran's nuclear facilities as a last resort and would like the support of the US task force based in the Gulf an may want to show Obama as weak. Such a strategy is certainly risky but if the Chinese can send a junior official to shout at Obama in Copenhagen then why can Israel not build houses? If they succeed in removing this Paki lover then good for India I say.