Just do it?
Now that James Jones is no longer President Arrogant's National Security Adviser, we're finding out what a piece of work Jones really is. Sometimes you have to wait until high-ranking officials leave office to find out how truly clueless they are. Such is the case with former National Security Advisor James Jones. Israel-Palestinian peace is easy to obtain, he explained in a lecture. Why? Because the Palestinians are willing to accept Israel gradually giving them all of the West Bank over the next ten years.Read the whole thing. It's amazing how clueless this administration is about this region. Unless you believe, like I do, that their hostility is intentional.
"I just think their cause would be dramatically enhanced by being a state to start with," said Jones. Yes, having a state would dramatically enhance their cause. But that equally was true in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. The problem is the cause they want enhanced is wiping out Israel altogether.
Of course, it is always easy to persuade the other side to make peace when they are getting everything and giving up nothing. Indeed, Jones could also make many other such peace agreements:
Labels: Barack Obama, Barry Rubin, James Jones, Just do it
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:22 AM
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I think they are hostile AND clueless!
The notion the Palestinians would become reconciled to Israel by getting a state is belied by all the evidence to the contrary. Which seems to have no effect whatsoever on Jones' and this Administration's thinking on the Middle East.
What could go wrong indeed
He isn't clueless at all... he's just on the other side when it comes to Israel. He was raised in France and I think I read that his mother is Lebanese. Even the Christian Lebanese I've met have the same anti-Israel (and anti-semitic) narrative that the French propagate. People try to say (as with Pres. Obama) that "oh, these experiences were when they were children...". Well, I think the early experiences put an often permanent mark on one's geopolitical view...
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