Who is to blame for collapse of ME peace? Obama

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

His ineptness; the blood on his hands.

For 15 years and more, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas conducted peace talks with Israel in the absence of a freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Now, it appears as likely as not that his newborn negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu -- and their goal of agreement on a Palestinian state within a year -- will die because of Abbas's refusal to continue without such a freeze.

The Palestinian president's stand has frustrated a lot of people -- including his own prime minister, Salaam Fayyad, and the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, both of whom have said that the settlement issue should not be an obstacle to the negotiations. At a recent dinner in Washington, Fayyad pointed out that any building in the settlements during the next year would have no effect on the outcome of the talks or the future Palestinian state.

So why does Abbas stubbornly persist in his self-defeating position? In an interview with Israeli television Sunday night, he offered a remarkably candid explanation: "When Obama came to power, he is the one who announced that settlement activity must be stopped," he said. "If America says it and Europe says it and the whole world says it, you want me not to say it?"

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/10/_for_15_years_and.html

[thundley4]

His ineptness; the blood on his hands.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/10/_for_15_years_and.html

Lord Zero has definitely shown a propensity for favoring the Palestinians over the Israelis. That can do nothing but bolster their resistance.

[JohnnyReb]

Lord Zero has definitely shown a propensity for favoring the Palestinians over the Israelis. That can do nothing but bolster their resistance.

From the beginning Obama has basically told the Muslims to, "Sic 'em."

[littlelamb]

He is just showing he is not experienced for the job once again

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

He is just showing he is not experienced for the job once again

His demand on Israel wasn't inexperience, it was grinding an ideological axe.--or priming an ideological shower--depending on how much you think he may or may not hate Jews.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Seriously, how close did those 15 years bring Abbas to getting the Israelis to either unoccupy or decolonize the West Bank?  15 years of nothin' is more than anybody with a brain ought to put into a one-sided 'Negotiation' that's obviously going nowhere.  It's a lot more complicated than just Obama screwing it up...not that his vague and drifting foreign policy has done anything but further deteriorate an already-unproductive goat-screw, of course.

[Eupher]

Agree with DAT. The ME "peace process" is a myth. It's not going anywhere. It's nothing more than an excuse by Jimmy Carter to flap his aged jowls to condemn the Joooos.