Obama's "Kennedy in Vienna" Moment, One Israeli View of Obama and Netanyahu, Avnery on New York..……
“Obama had demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East Jerusalem, as a condition for convening a tripartite summit meeting, in the wake of which accelerated peace negotiations were to start, leading to peace between two states – Israel and Palestine......
"But Netanyahu has won, and in a big way. Not only did he survive, not only has he shown that he is no “sucker” (a word he uses all the time), he has proven to his people – and to the public at large – that there is nothing to fear: Obama is nothing but a paper tiger. The settlements can go on expanding without hindrance. Any negotiations that start, if they start at all, can go on until the coming of the Messiah. Nothing will come out of them. For Netanyahu, the threat of peace has passed. At least for the time being.IT IS difficult to understand how Obama allowed himself to get into this embarrassing situation......."
We already knew all that about Netanyahu: he came to power because of the small extremist rightwing parties, the 'no peace for settlements' parties. He has been the cheerleader of the guerrilla war against peace of Israeli politics, for some years.
President Obama met his "Kennedy in Vienna" moment not with Medvedev or Putin. His was in New York last week, his adversary was not the other superpower, not Nikita Khrushchev: it was head of the Likud government. Mr Obama was tripped by a dependent 'ally'.
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