This week in power: Israel getting loud and Anonymous source

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Ya'alon comments
“Every other week, it seems, someone out there is bewailing that the US-Israel relationship is in trouble. This week was Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s turn, saying Saturday that as a result of the high-profile White House snub of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, 'there is a crisis with the US and we should treat it as a crisis,'” ” target=”_blank”>said The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens. “It’s time for some time away. Israel needs to look after its own immediate interests without the incessant interventions of an overbearing partner. The administration needs to learn that it had better act like a friend if it wants to keep a friend. It isn’t as if it has many friends left,” Stephens wrote. It's a period of despair, ” target=”_blank”>cited a senior Obama administration official who called Prime Minister Netanyahu a “chickens–t.” This has led some to ” target=”_blank”>wrote Salon's Luke Brinker. “President Obama likes to insist, at least publicly, that he’s supportive of Israel, but it's hard to see how he can do that by deriding its democratically elected leader,”