Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Michael Goodwin says Obama's Middle East policy is consistently "off course" and doomed to fail. Click here for his article.
And click here for his Daily News opinion piece, which demolishes Obama's linkage of the Iranian and Palestinian issues. An excerpt follows:
On the Lunacy of Obama's Linkage
Michael Goodwin says Obama's Middle East policy is consistently "off course" and doomed to fail. Click here for his article.
And click here for his Daily News opinion piece, which demolishes Obama's linkage of the Iranian and Palestinian issues. An excerpt follows:
Linkage is real only in the minds of those who refuse to see three fundamental realities of the Mideast.
The first is that Palestinian culture is still soaked in bloody images of martyrdom, with children's programs, teen music videos and mosque sermons all glorifying death in war against the Jews. Hamas and Fatah have divided their territory into warring and desperate pieces. Who is Israel supposed to make peace with, and how?
The second reality is that Iran has convincingly demonstrated it is in no mood to voluntarily give up its nuke dreams. Its leaders, even the so-called moderates, see the bomb as a ticket to regional dominance and the final victory over Israel. One such moderate called Israel "a one bomb country," meaning one would be enough.
The third reality is that there is simply no linkage between the creation of a Palestinian state and Iran's ambition for nukes. To believe otherwise is to believe Iran embarked on the nuclear quest because the Palestinians lacked a state. Nobody in their right mind believes that.
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