Obama Abandons U.S. Commitments to Israel

Ezra Greenberg, AT:

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Now that President Obama has reneged on the issue of settlement growth, one must wonder whether other past assurances to Israel are also in jeopardy.  President Obama appears willing to re-divide Jerusalem and in recent days has clarified that his demand against natural growth in the settlements includes areas of East Jerusalem, which most Israelis do not even consider to be part of the settlements.

Four years on, the supposed rewards that would accrue to Israel following her wrenching withdrawal from Gaza have completely vanished.  America’s new foreign policy makers do not want to be seen as meddling in Iran’s internal affairs, but are happy to demonize half a million Jews living peaceful lives in their ancestral homeland. The sole positive development to emerge from the “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005 is that Israel’s supporters now know that even the most painful concessions will not be reciprocated, and even by Israel’s lone putative ally, because the false myths that drive the so-called peace process require constant concessions by Israel in return for illusive promise of peace.

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