Was the Netanyahu government sending a message when it welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to town with a sucker punch announcement about new building in an East Jerusalem neighborhood  (see this earlier Political Insider item, and Janine Zacharia’s excellent piece in today’s Washington Post; folks who see the Washington Post as second only to the New York Times in animosity to Israel are going to have a hard time with Janine, one of the fairest and best reporters around).

Or was this another sign of a government that can barely be called a “coalition,” with different ministers playing on different game boards, with sometimes conflicting agendas?

The best take on this so far: today’s Jerusalem Post item by blogger Shmuel Rosner, who said the issue isn’t the usual “right-left” debate over Jerusalem, but “about the competence of the Netanyahu government.”

Read it here.

You gotta wonder, and Shmuel makes you wonder even more.