Not to be outdone in spotting dark days ahead in the Washington-Jerusalem nexus, The Independent wracked up a victory for Netanyahu by citing the x-factor Obama had evidently missed: unmatched formidability of the pro-Israel lobby in America.  Rupert Cornwell's editorial on March 18 stated:

But power lies in the perception of power, and no organisation in Washington is perceived to wield more power than AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee... Now the lobby is working to defuse the present row, naturally on Israel's terms. First AIPAC expressed its "serious concern" at events, reminding (or perhaps warning) of the "vast bipartisan support in Congress and the American people" for the US/Israeli relationship. Then the Israeli ambassador here issued a statement claiming he had been "flagrantly misquoted" in reports saying he had warned his staff of the worst crisis in 35 years between the two countries. By Tuesday evening Ms Clinton herself, who last week was accusing Mr Netanhayu of insulting the US, poured further oil on the already quietening waters: "I don't buy the notion of a crisis."

Given the left-wing British press's concern with the power of ethnic minority lobbies in the United States, it's doubly curious that the Erdogan flap was not cited if only for the opportunity to point out the obvious: The House Foreign Affairs Committee would never have passed its resolution without the persistent pressuring by the Armenian-American lobby.  Erdogan himself made reference to this lobby in his BBC interview, and The Guardian recognized it as the key factor in Turkey's reaction to the resolution's passage-namely, its withdrawal of the Turkish ambassador from Washington. I quote from The Guardian's Daniel Nasaw in his March 5 dispatch from the Capitol:

"The house resolution is the product of intensive lobbying by Armenian-Americans. Last year the Armenian national committee of America spent $50,000 (£33,000) lobbying Congress on the resolution, which urged Barack Obama to characterise the events as genocide in an annual message commemorating the massacres."

No ambassador from either country was withdrawn over the Netanyahu-Biden fracas, and no Israeli politician threatened to expel the country's Arab population in defiance of White House recriminations, though one can be sure if any had this threat would have made headlines in The Guardian and the Independent and wound up on BBC's evening news broadcasts.  Perhaps Prime Minister Erdogan would have been reached for comment.