Clinton's farewell trip to Israel: It's over
Hillary Clinton's 24-hour farewell trip to Israel (she flew back to the US at Midnight Monday night) should have convinced one and all that the 'peace process' is over. Consider this:Israel is not about to meet Arab demands and expel 10 percent of its population from land that was restored to the Jewish state in the Six-Day War in 1967. The Palestinian Authority, buoyed by years of concessions by Israel, is not about to give up its dream of eliminating a Jewish majority in Israel by flooding the country with Arabs living in foreign countries and whom the United Nations defines as refugees.This doesn't mean a second-term Obama will not try to impose a 'solution.' He might. But it does mean that the 'peace process' as we know it is finished.
Clinton’s visit to Israel did not even include the usual perfunctory five-mile journey to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority officials. Instead, she met with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the U.S. Consulate in what is called “East Jerusalem,” claimed by the PA as the future capital of their would-be state.
With the United States struggling to keep the Egyptian-Israel peace treaty from falling apart, and with Iran’s nuclear development threatening the entire world, Obama has little time or energy to work for an PA-Israeli agreement that has virtually no chance of happening.
Not lost in the shuffle are the upcoming presidential elections and a visit to Israel in two weeks by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Labels: Hillary Clinton, Middle East peace process, two-state solution
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:30 AM
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