Sarah Palin is selling $35 'I Stand With Bibi' T-shirts

The U.S.-Israel relationship is at a modern low point ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's GOP-engineer's speech to Congress next week. Obama administration officials — who weren't informed beforehand about the invitation from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) — are irritated that Netanyahu will use the U.S. Congress to try and sink an Iranian nuclear deal, and Netanyahu is angry about the talks and professes to be annoyed that his visit is being seen as partisan.

It has become partisan. Two more Democrats said on Wednesday that they are skipping Netanyahu's speech, and even Netanyahu's supporters are perplexed that he turned down an invitation from Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to meet with Senate Democrats on his trip to Washington. Some Republicans are trying to exploit the wedge between Democrats and Netanyahu.

Sarah Palin, for example, is now selling T-shirts though her super-PAC that proclaim "I Stand With Bibi." And in case it isn't clear who the wearer of the $35 (minimum) shirt is standing against, "Obama and the Democrats refuse to stand with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu," SarahPAC said in its marketing email to supporters. "Will you?"

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