| As the first impressions sink in, and as the manifold reactions swirl and then dissipate, I ask myself what to make of this speech. Or perhaps, the policy, the intention, the changes that this speech heralds. I could focus on what I liked and what I disliked, but that`s mrcurial, and will not transcend. What will is the probability that the settlement enterprise was struck with the beginning of its end. What will transcend is that American imperialism is alive and well, this time, morphed as a mission, not a war. And its missionary is cold, determined, and strong. Yet his assumptions are made often of conventional wisdoms and marinated in political correctness. Which is what bothers me. Israel has lost its place in the forum of what is politically correct, and Arabs and Muslims -despite all their misdeeds- are thriving well in the mercurial domains of the mediatic truisms. That is what hurts and worries me. Israel lost that "WAR" decisively. |
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