Suffering a severe drop in support on his health reform plan, the war in Afghanistan and the issue of torture of prisoners, President Obama is anxious for a breakthrough in the stalled Middle East peace process.
So Israel has to pay the price for Obama's stupendous failures?
And this one:
The U.S. may agree to allow Israel to complete construction that already is underway but will refuse to agree to a thaw in the building freeze if negotiations sputter.
In other words, Israel has to agree to a permanent building freeze in all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem before the Palestinians will agree to negotiations. And if the talks "sputter," Israel takes it in the shorts.
Oh, by the way, Israel has also to agree to stop demolishing illegal Arab buildings in Jerusalem.
Get it? Israel must force Jews to stop building on legally owned or rented lands. Israel must permit Arabs to build illegally on land it doesn't own.
The sick thing is that Israel PM Bibi Netanyahu seems set to agree to this, according to reports. Maybe he has no choice, given the veto power the U.S. has over Israel's right to defend itself from an increasing nihilist Iran. But such an agreement is a fool's errand, for it will neither buy Obama's friendship nor further Israel's security interests.
In fact it will do the opposite, for once again Israel will have given up something of value in return for nothing. Not even promises.
And once Israel signals to a hostile world that the rights of Jews in the Jewish State are subject to negotiation and abrogation, there'll be no end to the attempts to nibble away at those rights.
This is bad. Very bad.
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