https://wsj.com/articles/palestinian-state-antony-blinken-davos-…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out in Davos on Wednesday the perennially failing solution to Middle East problems. “If you take a regional approach, and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that’s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years,” he said. “Iran is suddenly isolated,” he envisioned, “and will have to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.”
Special points for Mr. Blinken’s use of “all of a sudden.” Presto, peace.
But by pushing a Palestinian state at this unpromising juncture, at the summit of Palestinian violence and rejectionism, the Administration is handing Mr. Netanyahu a lifeline. He gets to stand up to President Biden on behalf of the overwhelming majority of Israelis.
Take it from Israeli President Isaac Herzog, a Netanyahu opponent and former Labor Party leader. “If you ask an average Israeli now,” he said Thursday, “nobody in his right mind is willing now to think about what will be the solution of the peace agreements.”
Israelis are focused on winning a war the Palestinians started, and the extent of Israel’s recent advance in southern and central Gaza is underappreciated. In the Biden Administration’s eagerness for a foreign-policy success, it shouldn’t forget that the more thorough the Hamas defeat, the more room Israel will have to compromise. Victory would do the most to pave the way to peace.
@CruelJellyfishRepublican5mos5MO
My vote for the most ridiculous phrase to ever come out of Washington is “Palestinian peace process.”
A process moves forward. Which is the opposite of what Hamas and the Palestinians have wanted. Every time they’ve had a chance for peace, they turned their backs on it.
They hate Jews more than they love peace.
It’s as simple as that.
@HumorousCamelGreen5mos5MO
Israel is going the way of South Africa. Full blown apartheid and more and more boycotts.
@CruelJellyfishRepublican5mos5MO
20% of Israel’s citizens are Arabs with full voting rights. Which they used to elect Arab members of the Knesset. Arab residents if the West Bank are not citizens so have no voting rights. And the West Bank and Gaza were conquered in a war that was started by Egypt, and joined by Jordan , which Israel begged to stay on the sidelines. Remember when Obama said elections have consequences? Wars do too.
The Palestinians unfortunately have the best record in the world for making bad decisions and that’s why they are without their own state.
@PartisanHazelDemocrat5mos5MO
No one in their right mind should want a "Palestinian Peace Process. " What's needed is a Palestinian surrender process.
@IdealisticHannahLibertarian5mos5MO
"never fight a land war in Asia", the classic blunder. America should get out, that's why Trump was voted in the first time. Europe needed the third years war, the eighty years war, and WW1+WW2 to get that idea of forever wars out of their system. Maybe that's what Asia & the Middle East need too to get that fool notion out of their heads. Of course now it's with nuclear weapons, so maybe not....
@9J82W3M4mos4MO
I'm not confident in Biden's ability to effectively manage any middle east crisis.
@9J7ZHPJ4mos4MO
Concern we are heading towards a world war due to mis-reads by many, not just Biden.
@9J7JJX7Republican5mos5MO
Man, the us needs to stay out of the middle East.
@9J7HL4BConstitution5mos5MO
Biden doesn't know what hes doing.
@P0pularVot3EvaRepublican5mos5MO
Let's get real folks. The current administration in three short years has created crisis throughout the world due to their feckless appeasement policies.
They are now turning their back on Israel, trying to force a "two state solution" that neither side wants with Hamas going further saying that the total destruction of the Jewish state is the only solution.
Iran proxies are doing the dirty work for their paymasters and America is silent.
Given the Admin's role in not confronting Iran, I, for one, wonder if Iran's push to destroy Israel is silently supported by this… Read more
@9J7FSX95mos5MO
Don't know much about it, but it's important to know if our president makes the right decisions if there is good evidence.
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
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