montelatici, Coyote, et al,
The White House, the State Department, and the National Security Advisor have consistently failed in their approach to the Middle East problem (Arab-Israeli Conflict) for more than four decades.
Q: Why would anyone put any faith in what they have to say now?
In the17th Century, the German Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz postulated that (paraphrased): Nothing takes place without a sufficient cause. This has come to be known as the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR).
Finally, an administration speaks the truth, even though they left the door open for a subsequent administration taking up the cause. I left out the last words of the headline to give the thread header some pizzaz.
In fact, there is no longer any chance of a two-state solution with the Palestinians joining the Israelis in rejecting the notion. The most probable outcome is Israeli annexation and settlement building, a Jewish ruling minority for a decade or so and an eventual establishment of non-Jewish majority rule after a period of Apartheid and violence, similar to what happened in South Africa.
"Rob Malley, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Middle East, said that for the first time in two decades, an American administration “faces the reality” that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “is not in the cards......."
Obama administration concedes that Mideast peace is beyond reach on his watch
(COMMENT)
Remember who you are dealing with: Dr Rob Malley, an attorney (Harvard Law), Rhodes Scholar, and now senior on the Middle East desk of the National Security Council. His Mother was an American who held a position at the UN with the Algerian
National Liberation Front (FNL). The father was Jewish - Egyptian-born journalist in the Region. The family was openly anti-Israeli and considered Yassar Arafat a close family friend. Many knowledgeable people think of Dr Malley as an expert on the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict; an author of several must read articles on the subject.
What is important is that Dr Malley has been in the national security and political system for several decades. He was part of the Camp David set-up in which Present Clinton failed to achieve an effort to end the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict (15 years ago). What is wrong here is that the American Foreign Policy decision making model has not progressed and evolved since the mid-1990's. Another "
Quill and Dagger" Alumni (Cornell) with former Deputy SECDEF
Paul Wolfowitz (a dominant force with President Bush's FAILED Iraq policy) and
Stephen Hadley (Yale Law), who served as
Deputy National Security Advisor and a member of the
White House Iraq Group.
The point here is that these personalities, to which Dr Malley was associated with, had not been able to adjust and established a successful US Foreign Policy in over a quarter of a century; bogged-down in post WWII and Vietnam War decision making models.
NOW, relative to Dr Malley and the comment that the "American administration faces the reality” for the first time in two decades --- versus --- my "quarter century" estimate are pretty close. What Dr Malley doesn't say is that he was part and parcel in the mix that "faced something other than reality." What Dr Malley doesn't say is that relative to the reasons that need addressed in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, there is a solution. Dr Malley (forceful, passionately, and intensely anti-Israeli) may not know
(or even want to others to believe) that there is an understanding to the true explanation. We may not know what it is, but the PSR tells us that, stripping away all the political and emotional baggage; the solution will present itself. Dr Malley's is simply predisposed to oppose any solution that does not favor the Palestinians.
I would not make too much of this article: "President Obama has concluded that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is beyond reach during his presidency." Just because it is beyond the current National Security Advisory Team (the reality) does not mean it has no solution. Again, this is one of those fallacious "appeals to ignorance." Just because I cannot explain what interferometer is and how to effectively use it
(with the answer beyond me), does not mean that there is no solution.
Most Respectfully,
R
