A Fine Obama Speech with a Fatal Flaw

(New York Post) John Podhoretz - At the end of a very long and powerful speech on the meaning of the Arab Spring, Obama said he supported the concept of a final peace between Israel and the Palestinians based on the composition of Israel's borders before the Six-Day War in 1967. Obama deserves to be criticized, and harshly, for advancing this policy, now especially. There's no reason for the U.S. to be offering its own predetermined view of the final disposition of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, especially now that the terrorist group Hamas is taking a leading role in the Palestinian government. But I don't think he actually means to act in any way on the words he spoke. At least not now. After all, there is absolutely no hope whatsoever for a resumption of serious negotiations with Hamas in the mix.


2011-05-20 00:00:00

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