Scott Spiegel

“Most disturbingly, Obama seems to have gotten the history of the Israel-Palestine issue wrong. The plight of the Palestinians since 1948 or 1967 is not the moral equivalent of the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust, as Obama’s ‘on the other hand’ segue suggested.

“Nor are private statements by Arabs accepting the continued existence of Israel the moral equivalent of Israeli governments’ public willingness to negotiate with Palestinians.

“Obama seems not to have learned from previous presidents’ attempts to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian agreement that no solution is possible without an interlocutor willing to let Israel live in peace. His attempt to muscle Israel into stopping even natural growth of settlements beyond the 1967 line applies pressure to the party already willing to make peace. Obama needs to brush up on the Barbary pirates, but even more so on the last 40 years of Middle East history.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-needs-to-brush-up-on-Middle-East-history-47070147.html

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