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  • Obama’s Coming Break with Israel

    03/30/2015 2:39:21 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 36 replies
    NRO Online ^ | March 30, 2015 1:55 AM | Reihan Salam
    First, let me just say that I hope Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post is wrong and that President Obama has no intention of making a dramatic break with Israel in the coming months. But alas, the story he tells is very convincing. According to Diehl, the Obama administration is getting ready to back a U.N. Security Council resolution that would, in his words, “mandate the solution to the questions Israelis and Palestinians have been unable to agree upon for decades, such as the future status of Jerusalem.” Why does this matter? If Israel rejects peace terms imposed on it...
  • Kerry's Middle East dream world [conspicuously detached from on-the-ground realities]

    11/12/2013 12:30:31 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 23 replies
    Pittsburg Tribune ^ | November 11, 2013 | Jackson Diehl
    Imagine a world in which the Middle East is not descending into carnage and chaos but is on the brink of monumental breakthroughs. In this world in spring 2014, Iran's nuclear program has been secured and Egypt has become a liberal democracy. Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has stepped aside. And Israelis and Palestinians have settled on the terms for a Palestinian state. This is the world that John Kerry inhabited as he shuttled across the world last week: a fantastical realm created by his billowing vision of what he can accomplish as secretary of State. Meanwhile, on this planet, aid...