Comments on: Obama, Carter and Meshaal: Campaign rhetoric v. policy

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:23:35 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. But I’m hoping that everyone BUT Abe Foxman, Mort Klein & Alan Dershowitz will have shorter memories & forget Obama made such an insipid statement. People in the know tell me that Obama’s Jewish advisors are pretty savvy & basically on “our side” on peace issues. But every time I read a statement like this one I wonder…

You must’ve seen Haaretz’s wonderful editorial about Carter’s snub at the hands of the Israeli gov’t.

By: Chris Dornan

Chris Dornan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:48:38 +0000

I am afraid US politics is not very rational where Israel is concerned. I can’t see what possible alternative any serious US politician has other than to do what Obama is doing. Sadly his room for manoeuvre will not be much better is office (look at Al Gore’s environmental record as a VP).

I doubt if you can add those qualifications like you are suggesting (‘public’): people will pick them up. Secret negotiations have to be just that and often the rhetoric gets stepped up to cover such contacts: look at the rhetoric on both sides while all those secret contacts were going on between the IRA and the UK government (or Khomeini’s rhetoric during Iran-Contra).

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Note To Obama, Change « Terraformed — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:49:07 +0000

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