Both Israel's booming foreign trade and the swift demise of the Marrickville boycott movement demonstrate that the specter of international isolation in the event that Israel extricates itself from the Palestinian peace process charade is nothing more than a bluff.
The business community favors swift passage of the three pending trade deals, and the Obama administration is paying close attention to what business groups are saying these days.
They pointed to Target 2 Securities and a foreign exchange trade depository being developed by DTCC and SWIFT as examples of industry platforms which will be used by multiple institutions.