Here are a couple of things to think about today:
First, for the absolutely most unadulterated 200-proof bullshit in the world of Mideast punditry, it is impossible to beat Roger Cohen, who was actually paid something by the NY Times to write this:
But what of Iran? Netanyahu wants Obama to build a credible military threat. Ascendant Republicans bay for war. Clinton has to persuade Israel the best way to disarm Iran is by removing the core of Tehran’s propaganda — the plight of stateless Palestinians.
Imagine:
— Mr. President Ahamdinejad, listen, great news!
— What? Did the Zionists move back to Poland?
— No, but almost! Obama persuaded them to dismantle all the settlements and move back within the 1948 lines. A Palestinian state has been declared, with its capital in al-Quds!
— Allah be praised! Now we won’t need those atomic weapons — quick, sell the uranium on Ebay. Nasrallah can close up shop and go home — who will want to join Hizballah now? Stop sending money to Hamas — they are dancing in the street now that Palestinians aren’t stateless. And Assad might as well dump his missiles, too.
This business of trying to control the entire Middle East and its oil resources, overthrow the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt, establish a Shiite caliphate, humiliate the US and wipe the Zionists off the map was tiresome — I’m glad we can stop, now that the Palestinians have a state.
And get Obama on the phone — thanks to him, we can finally have good relations with the Great Sat– er, America. What a man he is!
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There’s no freeze agreement yet, and the US has apparently not put its promises into writing. And anyone who remembers the way Hillary Clinton announced that the oral commitments made by the Bush Administration were not ‘enforceable’ knows that you can’t trust these people otherwise. Daled Amos has a good summary here of the way the carrots seem to be evaporating from the Obama Administration’s carrot and stick offer.
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I keep saying:
OBAMA IS A SAUDI STOOGE, INSTALLED FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF WRECKING THE U.S.-ISRAEALI RELATIONSHIP.
Glenn Beck, never mind George Soros, are you listening? (I really did send him an e-mail about this; I’d say the chances of him reading this were not good, but perhaps a little better than the lottery….).
Why is Roger Cohen so infuriating. First he is arrogant and ignorant. But of course there is also the name, the fact that he is Jewish and so seems to be a Jewish voice for the condemnation of Israel, and the surrender to the Iranian and Turkish Islamist line.
A contemptible person certainly. A fool and a traitor in high- position working against his own people.