Has Obama Given Up?
Palestine Monitor | 23.01.2010 13:57 | Analysis | Palestine | World
"Expectations were too high". "We overestimated our ability". Time magazine’s interview with the President made for grim reading, unless you’re Israeli. Obama’s claim that "divisions within their societies" made "meaningful conversation...very hard" can be taken as a significant climb-down from the bold stance taken in Cairo.
It begs the question-what was he expecting? Following decades of inertia, would a dose of the rhetoric he so successfully employed in gaining office, really do the trick? Such an admission reveals either naivety, or worse, insincerity in his vocal commitment to finding a solution. For the most powerful man in the world to plead helplessness is unacceptable.
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