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20 March '15..
Dear President Obama,
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explains that while he would like to have a Jewish independent state of Israel living side by side in peace and security with a sovereign, independent Palestinian state that any rational realistic assessment of the situation is compelled to reach the conclusion that it is IMPOSSIBLE at this juncture to have a Jewish independent state of Israel living side by side in peace and security with a sovereign,independent Palestinian state.
Now I appreciate that its annoying to be told that you are dead wrong.
That the policy you are advocating indicates you are profoundly clueless and out of touch with reality.
But hey.
You are in good company.
There are all kinds of Israeli ex-generals and senior security people who are also profoundly clueless and out of touch with reality.
That said.
If you really genuinely believe that the assessment is wrong then argue your point!
As it stands your angry response is perceived here as no different than the angry response of a child told that Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy isn't real.
And since you are the President of the United States of America, our leader is going to try to placate you by saying something about the holy magical "two state solution".
Want to keep turning the screws?
Dennis Ross recommended today that we start making sacrifices to the concessions Moloch to placate you.
But the problem is that anything we do will be rewarded with only a short period of relief from pressure, to be followed be even greater pressure for ever greater concessions.
Turning the screws now too tight may actually force our leadership to reach the conclusion that we can't continue kicking the can down the road with concessions.
And it appears that Mr. Netanyahu is assembling a coalition government that could vote to take our fate in our hands.
A reminder: all it takes is a cabinet vote to extend Israeli law over Area C.
And Mr. Obama, while your blood boils over those damn Israelis for implying that you are indeed profoundly clueless and out of touch with reality, the reality is that our neighbors - the Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians and moderate Gulf States are VERY MUCH IN TOUCH WITH REALITY! They may talk the talk about a Palestinian state, but they are no more interested in waking up with a radical Islamic Palestinian state our side of the Jordan River than we are!
So it is really up to you:
Accept Netanyahu's if-pigs-can-fly acceptance of the holy magical "two state solution" or keep turning the screws until we opt to take our fate in our hands.
The irony?
Years from now analysts may conclude that dramatic Israeli moves to address the challenge of the West Bank supported by the national camp were only launched thanks to your pressure.
Link: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=66744
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They are not clueless. I believe that they would like to see the destruction of Israel, the destruction of the Jewish State and the dispersal of Israeli Jews; what's left of them, all over the world, to be at the mercy or the host populations as we once were. How could it be anything but intentional. Nobody could remotely be that obtuse. All they have to do is open their ears and eyes. As for liberal Jews who support Obama and his administration, there were Jews like that during the Shoah as well. And they went to the gas chambers just the same as all the others.
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