The 9 Percent more solution

Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with Obama today to pose for pictures and spawn as many possible overwrought links on Memeorandum as possible. It's a big day for Krauthammer, just a couple cuts and pastes and the next column is done.

Perhaps they can discuss how close Israel is getting to end those sanctions in Gaza?

Jewish settlements control more than 42 percent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli Supreme Court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.

So close so very close, so things are getting better:

Netanyahu has said that one of the primary goals of his visit to Washington — he'll meet with Obama on Tuesday — is to outline what efforts Israel's has made to ease the blockade as well as what steps the country has taken to pursue peace talks with the Palestinians. Officials in Netanyahu's government said that they expect Obama to be "pleased" with the progress.

Much like I was pleased when the bank raised my Visa limit last week and my interest rate, or when I got CNBC in high def and my cable rates increased for the privilege of Larry Kudlow in 1080i.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]