All this, while facing the very real risk of not being able to pay my hefty Bay Area mortgage, send my kids to school or, say, eat.

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My guess, however, is that, as the implications of President Obama's Mideast policies - for the United States as well as Israel - become clearer, he is going to find himself facing the sort of popular and congressional revolt that has confronted him in recent weeks on Guantanamo Bay.

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