Herb Keinon of the Jerusalem Post explains how Obama has brought the Peace Train to a grinding halt."So here is the status report so far on the Obama administration's settlement policy: The US has strongly called for a complete settlement freeze, Netanyahu has made clear that he will not comply and the Palestinians say that they will not begin negotiating until one is in place.With Defense Minister Ehud Barak scheduled to
The bottom line: there will be no negotiations."
fly back to Washington on Monday for another round of talks about construction in the settlements, it is instructive to ask at this point what exactly US President Barack Obama is trying to achieve by pushing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the wall on this issue.If, as some maintain, it's a way to build his credentials in the Arab world, then - okay - the policy can be understood. US and European diplomats say continuously that everywhere they travel in the Arab world, settlement construction is the one issue that they hear about time and time again: that construction in the settlements is poisoning the atmosphere and that Obama's seriousness in charting a new policy with the Arab world will be judged in no small degree by how he deals with Israel on this issue. (more...)
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Obama will be happy when Israel is history. We've never had a Jewish president. The media elected a Muslim first.
I've gotta correct you. Les Feinmann was technically our first Jewish president, elected in 1900. He was killed by a mob of angry citizens just 4 minutes after the election results were telegraphed around the nation.
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