(WMR) -- According to senior State Department sources, a major confrontation is looming between the United States and Israel over policies ranging from Palestine to Iran.

The new Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu government of Israel is pushing an agenda that runs counter to longstanding U.S. policies in the Middle East. Yisrael Beiteinu party Chairman Avigdor Lieberman, the new Israeli foreign minister, is seen by one State Department source as an “Eastern European fascist who practices racism.”

State Department sources are now convinced that what has been called the “Israel Lobby” in Washington will soon morph into an even more problematic “Likud/Lieberman Lobby” that will push a pro-war and pro-settler policy within the Congress and the Barack Obama administration. This new and more aggressive lobby will particularly use its control over Representatives Steve Israel (D-NY) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), as well as Senator Charles …