Obama is a believer is the `What Works` school.
Their team has a long list of what doesn`t work and that may be the problem.
Divide the Palestinians didn`t work. Supporting a Palestinian gov. didn`t work. Subsidizing Israel lavishly didn`t work. Supporting PA democracy and elections didn`t work. Israel didn`t want to negotiate with them. Supporting a `friendly` PA dictatorship didn`t work. Israel didn`t want to negotiate in good faith there, either. Supporting a PA counterinsurgency has had some minimal success in the West Bank. They`re not allowed to work at night in most places.
The US won`t support ethnic cleansing so the `transfer` option is out.
About the only things we haven`t tried are matching (and not exceeding) the Israeli contribution to creating a viable Palestinian state & government that can function AND be independent of Israel or pushing for equal citizenship rights for all the conquered people in a single state. |
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