Hillary Clinton, backing down on Israel for America, as everyone in the world knew would happen.
Why?
Here’s Matthew Yglesias pointing out the obvious: there’s no political support whatever in the United States for any kind of retaliation against Israel, no matter what Israel does.
So, back will go George Mitchell for another round of proximity talks.
Israel will come to the table for a serious negotiation only when it decides that its future as a Jewish state is under threat. Both demographics and time are on the Palestinian side and the Israelis aren’t completely stupid.
The Palestinians will come to the table for a serious negotiation only when they decide that some kind of state is better than another 60 years of being stateless.
At the moment, neither side is serious about peace, so the US shouldn’t waste any further time on forcing them to get serious; both sides know we have zero leverage.
Gorilla says: “Getting Republicans to vote for any bill introduced by any Democrat is a walk in the park, when compared to getting Jews and Palestinians to divvy up their park!”
