uh oh ... Israel at the center of Obama Foreign Policy
Gearing up to Immediately Demand Massive Concessions
... Obama just announced that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal will be at the center of his agenda. He's even bringing back Daniel Kurtzer - who was firmly against the security fence that all but ended suicide bombings - to push Israel on concessions. And of course none of this is surprising given how Obama's "main foreign policy sounding board" - the same guy who spent last year trying to detonate US-Israel relations - thinks that the peace process should be the US's single most important foreign policy goal:In a rare interview that he gave to Inside the Pentagon at the end of last month... Jones urged the new administration to keep up the negotiations begun in Annapolis, warning that, "If they don't do that and they choose to start from ground zero again, then I think there would be a real tragedy, because there's real momentum and real progress here."He told the outlet that "nothing is more important" in the Middle East than a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Don't focus too much on the entirely predictable bait and switch, where hypothetical one-time offers at Annapolis become starting points for future negotiations. You might miss how the incoming National Security Adviser - with whom the President consults multiple times a day - is crafting global strategy around the myth that Israel is responsible for the length and breadth of Middle East instability.

Posted by: Kae Gregory | Tuesday, 02 December 2008 at 07:01 PM
Posted by: Fearless | Tuesday, 02 December 2008 at 09:17 PM