Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinians can have their own country … if, if, if, and if. See details here.
Reminds me of the story philosopher Norman Malcolm told about Wittgenstein:
When in very good spirits he would jest in a delightful manner. This took the form of deliberately absurd or extravagant remarks uttered in a tone, and with the mien, of affected seriousness. On one walk he “gave” me each tree that we passed, with the reservation that I was not to cut it down or do anything to it, or prevent the previous owners from doing anything to it: with those reservations they were henceforth mine.
Cross-posted at Free Association.
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Mideast policy is about the only area where I agree with the thrust of the Obama administration. The Zionists want to bomb Iran, and don’t want to relent to the Palestinians their long-promised state. The Obama administration doesn’t really want to bomb Iran, and does want the Palestinians to have their state.
It’s amazing that a president that has decent judgment on Mideast policy is so clueless on American domestic and economic policy, but that’s really the hobgoblin that has bedeviled the U.S. for years now: The GOP is better at domestic policy, terrible at foreign policy; the Dems are better at foreign policy, but terrible at domestic policy.
Neither party, on balance, is good at American policy all around, and the damage done by each parties’ weaknesses wind up vastly outweighing the good accomplished by their strengths.