Chickens. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

JNS.org – A crisis in U.S.-Israel relations is no laughing matter. Yet as a headline writer, I can’t resist the temptation to have some fun with the report that an anonymous Obama administration official called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit.” Here’s what I came up with:

Can the U.S. and Israel make chicken salad out of chickenshit?

Israel cries fowl over ‘chickenshit’

U.S. official too chicken to attach name to ‘chickenshit’

Obama administration lays latest egg on relations with Israel

Op-ed: White House must come home to roost after ‘chickenshit’ slur

If it ain’t chickens, it’s feathers in Barack-Bibi relations

U.S.-Israel tension a chicken and egg situation, both sides allege

Experts: Bibi insult merely chicken feed in context of broader U.S-Israel crisis

Newly hatched controversy brews over Obama’s record on Israel

U.S. official must fly the coop after ‘chickenshit’ slur, Israel says