Distorting mideast policy

Soccer Dad
22 October '10

According to Laura Rozen (note here yesterday) the administration's upset that Netnayahu isn't infinitely pliable.

The American team is said to be frustrated and upset at Netanyahu's dismissal to date of the package, which was drafted by the NSC's Dennis Ross in close consultation with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli negotiator Yitzhak Molho.

"They're really upset," one Washington Middle East hand in close contact with administration officials said Tuesday. "At the end of the day, they made this incredibly good faith effort to keep Bibi at the table." And Bibi proved as yet unwilling to budge.

"'We put our asses on the line,'" the sense of dismay among the U.S. Middle East team at Netanyahu's rejection of the U.S. package was described. "'We worked with your defense minister and gave you this amazing deal, all the cover you needed to extend the freeze. And you not only rejected it, but put forward a counterproposal [demanding Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state] pandering to the right and a stalling tactic.'"

Add to that the complaint of administration water carrier and thumb sucker, Thomas Friedman, that Israel's acting like a spoiled child.

Aside from the fact that the "counterproposal" should be a premise of any peacemaking, what's troubling is that there is no other country that seemingly gets singled out with kind of leak or synchronized cajoling.

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