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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).
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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.
Robert Malley | The New York Review of Books
www.nybooks.com/contributors/robert-malley/
Robert Malley is Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group. He is writing here in his personal capacity. (November 2012).
Robert Malley (Author of The Call From Algeria)
www.goodreads.com/author/show/936750.Robert_Malley
Robert Malley is the author of The Call From Algeria (4.00 avg rating, 7 ratings, 0 reviews, published 1996) and The Call from Algeria (0.0 avg rating, 0...
How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East by Robert Malley and ...
www.nybooks.com/.../how-not-to-make-peace-in-the-middle-east/
Jan 15, 2009 ... Yet none of the authors was a passive spectator during their terms in .... At far left is Robert Malley, the coauthor of this review; at far right is ...
The Road from Mecca by Robert Malley and Hussein Agha | The ...
www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/.../the-road-from-mecca/
May 10, 2007 ... The hitch is that neither Israel nor the US has embraced the Arab Initiative in quite the way its authors intended. Five years after the proposal ...
- See more at: Biography of Author Robert Malley: Booking Appearances, Speaking
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
There is no solution that is acceptable to the Jews in Israel that will allow a non-Jewish ruled sovereign state to exist in Palestine. That means there is no two state solution.
Eventually, Israeli Jews will be unable to rule and maintain control over a growing majority of non-Jews and a South Africa type resolution to the problem might be possible. But, the Rhodesia, Algeria type scenarios are also possible.
Yeah right. Israeli Jews are the problem, and not Arab Muslims who have tried to commit genocide on Jews in their own holy land for the last 70 years. After all, we can see how Islam and its followers are such peaceful, tolerant people today.
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