Posted on 08/08/2011 1:13:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A New York Times editorial has called on President Barack Obama to do what he has said won’t do – place a ”take it or leave it” Palestinian Authority state on the table.
President Obama has repeatedly said that he will not try to dictate to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Israel the territorial and political outlines of establishing the Palestinian Authority as a new Arab country within Israel’s borders.
Its editorial, headline “Palestinians and the U.N.” criticizes all sides – Abbas, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Obama – for the current lack of talks and Abbas’s appeal to the United Nations for recognizing the PA as a state.
“The United States and its partners should put a map and a deal on the table, with a timeline for concluding negotiations and a formal U.N. statehood vote,” the Times wrote. “The Security Council and the Arab League need to throw their full weight behind it.”
The editorial noted what nationalists – and lately mainstream media – have warned about for years: raising the expectations of the Arab world might spark further violence, if not war.
The Times warned that Abbas’s strategy of the United Nations probably will leave him “empty-handed,” with nothing more than a toothless resolution for a PA state.
The United States is expected to veto any attempt by the United Nations Security Council to recommend that the PA become a member state of the international body. Abbas’s alternative is for the pro-Arab General Assembly to pass a non-binding resolution.
“After the initial exhilaration, Palestinians would be even more alienated, while extremists would try to exploit that disaffection,” according to the Times.
1. The Palestinians will reject it. There's nobody who has authority to accept it, and even if there was, there's a whole bunch of factions who'd smoke the fool that agreed to the deal. He'd be dead as fried chicken before sundown.
2. Obama won't attempt it, precisely because they'll reject it. Obama has been experiencing one loss after another. Why go seize yet another embarrassment with both hands?
The Palestinians can go to the UN any time and ask to be recognized as an independent state. They never have, and the talk of them doing so has been suggested by the world wide left wing for decades. There's a pretty long list of reasons why the Palestinians just don't take the initiative in this.
I wish that the 'One World' do-gooder nitwits would finally just accept and admit that no Palestinian leader can accept a Palestinian state that recognizes Israel's right to exist.
Re Paragraph 3: The Palestinians already have a general assembly resolution from back in 1988 or 1987. It wasn’t worth a hill of beans.
A security council resolution will not happen, because Obama would have to veto no matter what he personally wants to do. He hates Joooos!, but loves their money and organizational legitimacy, not to mention talent and dedication (unwittingly to their own destruction).
He also doesn’t want to totally alienate Bible-believing Christians, who are much more a factor in American politics vis a vis Israel than AIPAC.
Re closing paragraph: I doubt the old gray harlot cares a fig about whether the putative Pali state would recognizes Israel’s right to exist, as a Jewish state or at all.
Whatever state they would form would be Hamastan II by the end of a year, and at war with us, regardless of whether or not they recognize Israel’s existence. So it’s all moot.
The Times is incredibly ignorant to call for an imposed final solution (heh) when every President since Truman has wisely refused to go down that idiotic path.
You are quite right that every time O has entered the arena of piece talks, he’s gotten burned, so is unlikely to repeat the mistake again. His IQ may be lower than mine (139) or yours, but he’s not a complete moron.
Uh, since when does our President take orders from the NYT?
Since 2009? Or does he take orders from Newt Gingrich? Or France? Or Soros? From whom exactly does he take orders?
NYT asking for the AnointedIdiot to be told to frak off by Netanyahu again... =.=
Does the O-hole draw any better than everything else he fails at doing?
Look how well Obama’s work is turning out here in the USA...
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