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Old May 23, 2011, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Zunaid
Love 1 and 2. About 3 - at least Obama is trying. Why make his hand even weaker and give the neocons and neozionists even more fodder for distractions?
As president he needs to break with the 63 year old tradition of unconditional support with Israel. I am not saying go completely pro-Arab (which is suicidal), but start demanding boldly what they expect of Israel while giving just enough to give the neocons happy.

Also at the same time not disregard the international community's stance on the issue, not just what Israel and US neocons think. The upcoming General Assembly vote is a significant opportunity for US to side with rest of the world instead of being isolated on the other side with Israel.

I don't doubt Obama's intention but he or any future US president needs to tackle it wisely and take the "bold steps" as he puts it in his speech.

In his speech he said:
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Now, ultimately, it is up to the Israelis and Palestinians to take action. No peace can be imposed upon them — not by the United States; not by anybody else.
Peace can be imposed by United States. It costs them $5 billion a year to arm Israel so it can be "secure", a significant amount. A peace deal will secure Israel while saving US a big chunk of that $5 billion. US would have had a decent health care system if that money was dumped there instead of shipping it to Israel.

So he can't really wash his hand of the problem and expect the duo to sit down one morning and discuss peace. By doing so, he is not being bold enough himself and while adhering to status quo that has stalled peace process for over 3 decades.

Someone needs to break the stalemate and there is no one else but US and more specifically the president of US.

So firstly he needs to be bold enough to tackle Israel and make an attempt to break the pro-Israeli mindset and secondly he needs to make sure that peace deal can be seen favorably else it wont hold in the long run.

Like I said few posts up, Palestinians don't have much to give aside from recognition which Israel can live without. So the strength of a peace deal depends on how much Israel is willing to give. Right now its meager.
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