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Tags: Barack Obama, bibi netanyahu, dennis ross, east-jerusalem, george mitchell, israel, u.s. mideast policy
Finally, I understand the conflict over Palestine! I have spent decades studying this conflict and its history in detail. I really thought I understood it quite well, and now I find that I really had no clue at all what it was really all about. It’s not about a conflict over the right of an ethnically exclusivist group of colonists from Europe to colonize, ethnically cleanse, and take over land that has been inhabited for centuries by people of the “wrong” ethniity. It’s not about all members of the UN being obligated to uphold the principles of the UN Charter. It’s not about Israel’s constant and willful violations of the laws government occupation. It’s not about Israel willfully causing horrific human suffering. It’s not about humanity, the law, morality, ethics, or common decency.
IT’S ABOUT PRESERVING THE CREDIBILITY OF THE CURRENT US ADMINISTRATION!
My god, what an idiot I have been to think it was any more complicated than that.
“[Dennis Ross's] approach in the Oslo years was such an abysmal failure…”
Says who? Dennis Ross’s approach in the Oslo years was no failure. It accomplished exactly what it was intended to.