The case for Obama's weakness that the GOP won't use
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As count-the-accomplishments plaudits for President Obama mount in this election year, it's disturbing to read Peter Beinert's account of Obama knuckling under to Netanyahu (adapted from his forthcoming The Crisis of Zionism). The outlines were clear enough in contemporary accounts. The administration called for a settlement freeze and settled for the semblance of one. As the "freeze's" short term approached its end, the administration tried desperately to bribe the Israelis into an extension, and failed. The never-really-started peace talks ended, and an Israeli-Palestinian settlement effectively disappeared from the agenda. Now Israel's got the U.S. and the world riveted on the alleged "existential" threat from Iran.
The case for Obama's weakness that the GOP won't use
The case for Obama's weakness that the GOP…
The case for Obama's weakness that the GOP won't use
As count-the-accomplishments plaudits for President Obama mount in this election year, it's disturbing to read Peter Beinert's account of Obama knuckling under to Netanyahu (adapted from his forthcoming The Crisis of Zionism). The outlines were clear enough in contemporary accounts. The administration called for a settlement freeze and settled for the semblance of one. As the "freeze's" short term approached its end, the administration tried desperately to bribe the Israelis into an extension, and failed. The never-really-started peace talks ended, and an Israeli-Palestinian settlement effectively disappeared from the agenda. Now Israel's got the U.S. and the world riveted on the alleged "existential" threat from Iran.