Posted on 06/05/2014 5:23:31 PM PDT by SJackson
The new unity government puts the lie to U.S. peace efforts.
The new Palestinian unity government of Fatah and Hamas puts the lie to fundamental assumptions on which the U.S. approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace have long rested, most prominently within the Obama administration.
Washington has long assumed that a two-state solution is attainable, that “land for peace” is the formula for success, that the key remaining issue is final borders for a new “Palestine,” that the main obstacle is Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is the rare Palestinian leader who will make peace and deserves Israel’s support. With the terrorist group Hamas (which runs Gaza) now sharing power with Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority (which runs the West Bank), the new Palestinian government undercuts all of these central assumptions.
Indeed, as this newly unified Palestinian leadership makes abundantly clear, the far more fundamental problem is broad Palestinian rejection of Israel to begin with and, with that, continuing Palestinian hopes of a new Palestine “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
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It’s like the old joke logo for the merged KGB and CIA:
“Now We’re Everywhere!”
No, the US, EU and UN endorsement of this new unity government and insistence that Israel continue to negotiate despite it, refutes Israel’s underlying assumption that the US’ underlying assumption was that peace could be made if only we could give up enough land. Instead, the US’ underlying assumption appears to be that we must give up more land with or without piece, so long as this keeps gas and oil from growing too expensive. Screw ‘em. Let the electorate sock it too the Dems at mid-terms.
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