Posted on 08/31/2009 9:20:06 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
President Obama's Middle East policy is in ruins. While the US continues to press Israel for a settlement freeze (and now a freeze on Jerusalem) his strategy is falling apart piece by piece. He has turned the Israeli populace against him and strengthened the hand of Prime Minister Netanyahu. At the same time he has eroded his own support among American Jews and other US friends of Israel. The Arab League nations answered no to the Presidents request for a peace gesture and the President of the Palestinian Authority uses Obama's settlement pressure as his "out" from re-entering negotiations.
What the President and his advisers perceived as a minor concession, a settlement freeze, was not perceived by Israel as a minor concession. This was a major error by the administration. Their insistence for a freeze and the constant public berating of the Jewish State has turned the Israeli population against Obama, especially the Israeli left who the President would look to for support.
His public blasting of Israel has weakened his support among American Jews who initially "bought into" his pledge that he was a "friend" of Israel. Especially when the news came out that Obama was breaking a pledge made to Israel by the Bush administration about natural expansion in existing settlement.
Today another piece fell by the wayside. The Palestinian Authority looking for any way to avoid making peace, took up Obama's charge and announce that they will not accept any invitation by the US to restart negotiations unless there is a complete settlement freeze.
Nice work Mr. President:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Another president who fails to obtain peace in the middle east.
I talk to people every day who supported the egomaniac who hate everything he's doing.
What hasn’t he ruined?
No, because peace in the Middle East is an impossible dream.
Not all problems have solutions. That one doesn’t.
Barack Obama “Always p*ssing In the waters of life”
lol... so much for him being the anti-christ
guess it just must be above his pay-grade.
Obama can’t even bring peace to the U.S.!
The headline of the article is wrong. It should read...
Has Obama Ruined His Chances At Being A POTUS Of Any Importance?
I guess I have to say that he is being of importance, because he has done (or tried to do) so much in seven months that he has energized people throughout the country to oppose his Marxist/socialistic programs. The groundswell of people that believe in freedom and the Constitution has grown large and continues to expand in numbers of liberal, moderate, independant and conservative voters. .....Obama is already a “lame duck president”, and I hope he drags the rest of his supporters down with him.
Quibble — Obama never had any such plan.
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