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April 4, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-02/john-kerry-thwarted-by-the-middle-east

John Kerry, Thwarted by the Middle East

(Bloomberg) Jeffrey Goldberg - Well, God bless John Kerry for trying. President Obama's administration, and specifically its secretary of state, deserve credit for maintaining the belief - in a very American, very solutionist sort of way - that the application of logic and good sense and creative thinking could bring about, over time, a two-state solution to the 100-year Arab-Jewish war. Maybe Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will come to realize that his decision to seek international recognition of an imaginary state of Palestine is not the cleverest way to bring about the creation of an actual Palestinian state, assuming a Palestinian state is what he actually wants. Abbas wants the international community to hand him a perfect, ready-made Palestine. But the moral support of Bolivia and Malawi will not bring about the creation of a state. Only Israel can conjure a Palestinian state into existence.

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