JERUSALEM (AP) — President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned appeal Thursday for Israel to recognize that compromise will be necessary to achieve lasting security and to take steps to reverse an ‘‘undertow’’ of international isolation that is worsened by its failure to make peace with the Palestinians. Militants again underscored Israel’s vulnerability by firing rockets into a southern border town.
Obama declared anew that Israeli expansion of housing settlements in disputed territory only hinders chances for fruitful negotiations with the Palestinians, but he did not say as he has in the past that they must be halted.
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It's impossible for the US Government to be a netural partner in any peace plan. Our policy has been a complete failure. It's a tribal war been two people's and we are not going to change that. Israel has no intention of giving up anything. We should withdraw all support for both sides we have tried enough. Perhaps others in the Mideast should step in and try to settle it-it's their area not ours.
"In remarks likely to disappoint, if not infuriate, the Palestinians, Obama said the United States continues to oppose the construction of Jewish housing on land claimed by the Palestinians but stressed that issues of disagreement between the two sides should not be used as an ‘‘excuse’’ to do nothing."..The AP takes the side of the Palestinians in its reporting.
Talk about giving up on a peace plan. Why the heck did Obama go there in the first place if he isn't going to do anything? Maybe he can't do anything. Maybe US policy has been keeping both sides from talking. Maybe Ippudo is right - we should withdraw support from both sides and let them settle it. This tribalism (my tribe is better than yours, or, my religion is better than yours; we are God's chosen people - no, we are God's chosen people) is so antiquated and so dysfunctional!
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And Hamas?
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/kassam-barrage-fired-at-israel-damage-reported/
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I've been watching the peace efforts of both parties for the last fifty years.
Opinion: They will never solve their problems if they haven't in the last half century. What is the solution? None. We are wasting our money helping both sides with our foreign aid, monies that we badly need at home as Congress considers cutting back on entitlements here. Let them figure out their own solutions, which they never will, but it should be no longer our problem. The US has done enough. Enough, already!