Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. …Barak warned that if Israel can't cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a hard time swallowing his words…. _________________________________________________________ US President Barack Obama's policies are just as irrational.... The place where this irrationality is displayed most prominently today is in Obama's policy regarding Iran. As Michael Singh rightly noted, under Obama, US policy towards Iran is based on the view, "that at the root of the Iran nuclear crisis is US-Iran...