Western intervention - that is the source of the problem. How can it possibly be the solution?

There is no such thing as an ironclad rule about what will work or won’t work as far as the I-P conflict is concerned. And not every evil in the ME derives fr. Western intervention (though that is a very large part of the evil for sure). Native/local players have done more than their share of the evil as well. In fact, the entire reason the west should intervene is that the parties have shown themselves entirely incapable of acting responsibly.

The west has intervened in some conflicts in various parts of the world & done so fairly responsibly and judiciously. THat could be possible within the I-P situation as well.

You simply do not understand how desperate the situation is in Palestine. Before you mischaracterize Power’s proposal, you should read up on how horrible things are. Likening Gaza to some of the awful international basket case situations Power refers to in her interview isn’t far off the mark. So, do you want to sit around and let Israel & Palestine slug it out until perhaps a nuclear weapon is dentonated or some other horror occurs? Or would you prefer that the U.S. be part of the solution?

You can sit w. yr head in the sand as we’re doing re: Darfur & as we did in Rwanda & for too long in Bosnia & Kosovo; or you can act. Acting would be messy, no question about it. But what’s the alternative??

How, btw, do you propose that Israel “end its dependency on” U.S. “colonial power?” What if that won’t happen for the next say, 60-80 yrs.? Then what? Do you have a suggestion for how you can drive a wedge bet. the 2? Because if you did you should be putting out yr shingle as an international relations consultant specialist & start raking in some real money. I simply don’t see this happening, period. And unlike you I’m not willing to wait around till the Messiah comes for the U.S. to stop propping Israel up.

The U.S. did pretty well by Bosnia & Kosovo. If something similar ever happened in Israel-Palestine it would not be a sole U.S. operation. It would be an international one like the UN force in Lebanon. And it would involve the U.S. & EU prob. coming up w. a mutually agreed upon solution in consultation w. Israelis & Palestinians. This happened in Kosovo and it could happen in Israel Palestine too.

US military contractors make millions off of the continued conflict in the Middle East. There are million of jobs in the US directly or indirectly related to this industry. They have no economic interest in seeing it end. That the Israeli peace movement ignores this fact and sees the US as some kind of Messiah is incredible. I thought the religious right were the only ones to believe in such superstitions.
There will be no peace in the Middle East until Middle Easterners themselves end their dependence on colonial and neo-colonial powers. You would think that after over a century and a half of such dependency they/we would learn to stop being dependent on superpowers who have been enriching themselves while we drown in debt, live in poverty and kill each other. There is no Messiah, no knight in shining armor.
Given what the US did in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Chile, in Panama, in Japan… in fact name one country that the US invaded that it didn’t devastate. If you know even the most basic history of US intervention you should be scared.

…would one assume that he would support this plan?

I think you’re trying to be cute–too cute by half. And it’s not working.

BTW, I don’t provide Yiddish lessons to nudniks. Look both words up on Google.

scarier than anything the RJC could put together

Ooooooh, we’re all so SCARED!