In May, the Obama Administration was pointedly demanding that the Israeli government abandon all construction in all of its settlements, insisting that no exceptions could be tolerated and the move was a must for peace.
It took less than six months for that position to be abandoned in its entirety. The hawkish Netanyahu government is now relishing a major victory over the US as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Israel, which has angrily rejected those demands, for their commitment to the peace process.
It seems that President Obama’s ambition for Palestinian statehood has given way, in the face of furious anti-Obama protests across Israel, to a 180 degree turn back to the unquestioningly pro-Israel position of the past several US presidents.
Now the Palestinian Authority, once eagerly praising the Obama Administration for pressing Israel, says that Clinton is actually undermining efforts to resume the stalled talks. Since Israel has repeatly ruled out any peace talks with the PA in recent weeks, there wasn’t much to undermine, but their frustration is clear.
the obama presidency is a fail!
Sun Tsu said it best – and it is applicable to Hillary and to Obama: "Do not demand accomplishments from those who have no talent." The only peace that Netanyahu and Israel wants is to murder all of the Arabs and to steal all of their lands – and the US is complicit in the crimes committed by Israel.
Obama has neither talent nor a backbone. He has bent over fully for Netanyahu and his fifth column over here. Although I can hear the kool-aid drinking morons now saying "just give him time he can't accomplish everything overnight!"
Devils…that's all they are….no more tect needed to be wasted. Ghadafi was right…that the Uncle Tom would buckle and listen to his imperial masters
This means war. I hope you know…
The Palestinians will most likely launch a 3rd Intifada. Obama has left them with no other option.
when did the second intifada end?
nothing was accomplished except for an American/Israeli backed coup d'etat against the hamas government. so if you consider bribing off their leadership and then putting the entire population under a suffocating siege.
the intifada goes on! just like every week we got a new name for the Iraq insurgents. it helps israel when they can say oh the intifada is over and now those radical religious pals are just getting upset over a religious building be defiled
Just like when my country abandon the U.S.Navy sailors killed and wounded by ISRAEL knowingly ATTACKING the USS LIBERTY. Now my country has caved to the Zionist War Machine. Israel is not our friend! REMEMBER the LIBERTY!!!
I saw an old Jewish lady on TV recently and she said "it is impossible to have peace while they keep building settlements". There is plenty of land in this world. Why can't Israelis put 'em selves in the Palestinians shoes? How anyone can tolerate HUGE prejudice & cruelty & injustice to anyone is beyond my belief?…is it brainwashing? mindless supremacist thinking or greed or all of these together?
So it's "Yes we can" eeh?? Obamas credibility is now totally zero in my eyes.
the is more contiguous land in Dallas fort-worth air port than in the whole of the Palestinian occupied territory
There will never be peace in the Middle East until the Israeli-Palestinian problem is solved and it will bever be solved as long as the U.S. permits (nay endorses) Israel's criminal behaviour.