"My hope is that once direct talks have begun, well before the moratorium has expired, that that will create a climate in which everybody feels a greater investment in success.”President Barack Obama, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Obama also added of their previous meeting in May, widely panned as a disaster, was badly misrepresented by the media (a common Obama phrase): “The last time the prime minister came here, we had a terrific meeting.” And, “Not only is Netanyahu smart and savvy, the fact that he is not perceived as a dove in some ways can be helpful. Any successful peace will have to include the hawks and the doves on both sides.”
But, “being hopeful is not the same as being blindly optimistic." Obama expects a two-state solution before the end of his first term.
Meanwhile, “If it’s up to me, we’ll have an agreement,” Benjamin Netanyahu promised “foreign policy experts” at the Council on Foreign Relations. He expects a two-state solution by the end of 2011.
"I decided, unlike any previous government, to freeze the construction in new settlements for 10-month period to encourage the Palestinians to enter peace talks. So far seven months have passed and they haven't come in. They should have come in 12 months ago, seven months ago. We should not waste any more time... We have shown good will... I think we have done enough, let us move onto direct talks."
We would like to note that the CFR’s board of directors and other council members, which is nothing more than a government-front for Washington elitism, includes: Thomas Freidman, Fareed Zakaria, David Rockefeller, Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Zbigniew Brzezinksi, George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, Robert Kagan, Henry Kissinger, John McCain, Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz, among many others. The list reads less like “foreign policy experts,” more like the destroyers of US foreign policy and whatever part of the world it comes into contact with.
Hard to spot any friends of the Palestinians at CFR.
Netanyahu then criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: "You can't go on a trapeze, hold out your hand and have no partner on the other side.”
Naturally the Palestinians haven’t rushed in to greet Netanyahu, someone with zero credibility within the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world. The Wall Street Journal reports, "Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians hear Mr. Netanyahu talk but don't see him backing it with actions, such as completely stopping building in Jewish settlements and in East Jerusalem.”
And so the show goes on.
Unfortunately the CFR has been leading our foreign policy for decades. It has a very interesting beginning, and past.
ReplyDeleteThey insist that their future agenda is our future agenda.
They have succeeded quite well.
I expect Fareed Zakaria to be in Govt. shortly. Maybe not with Obama, but the next one for sure.
It's quite evident, I think, that the endgame envisioned by the Israeli government, the Obama Regime and the Vichy government in Palestine is a state in name only, a LEGALIZED APARTHEID in reality.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately that's the case for now. PA officials cannot give in to these terms without destroying their popularity and emboldening violent elements. Why US and Israel wants to put them in this position can only mean they want to weaken Palestine. Peace will not be the result.
ReplyDeleteI think it is time for every one to recognize that Israel does not want peace. At least not in the natural sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteThey will only grant favors as long as it is on their terms and benefits the expansion of Israel.
They still believe in the agenda of [divide and conquer]. For them control through chaos is a tactic.