Obama is vague (on Israeli Palestinian conflict)
There is little doubt that Obama is vague on Israeli Palestinian conflict. It comes out clearly in his otherwise fascinating, messianic speech at the taking of his ?sacred oath.? (Ironically, the messianic figure failed to mention the fate of the birthplace of Christ. He did mention his own though).
Obama faces two tests and not one as he seems to suggest. He is wrong because both are intertwined and by no wave of rhetoric band be separated. The one is closure of Guantanamo camp and withdrawal from Iraq, the second is to manifest deliberate even-handedness in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which would allow the end of American insulation from the world opinion on the issue. The problem is that both are related to each other almost like cause and effect. This means that there would be little point in closing the chapter of American occupation of Iraq while leaving open the nurseries of martyrs nurtured all around the borders of Israel.
I think he has the moral courage to turn to the Israeli leadership and its allies in America to say that ?our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please.? |
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