Comments on: Mearsheimer: Like Bush and Clinton before him, Obama will fail at creating a viable Palestinian state

By: Jim Haygood

Jim Haygood — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Obama can't be different than Bush "because the Israel lobby in this country won't allow him to be any different." -- John M.

Given that POTUS is often described as the most powerful person on earth -- what is wrong with this picture?

By: delia

delia — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I guess it's not as simple as pulling that $3b "foreign aid" package until such time as Israel works out a compromise with the Palestinians. O, well, what does it matter? Israel has exactly what it wants anyway–even a war now and then to remind everybody that its "normal"–i.e., a masculinized, militarized, patriarchal state like all the rest.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

One of these pseudo Haygood trolls is extraordinarily stupid, isn't he?

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

A uniquely hopeless statement.

Are you really that pessimistic Phil, in FACT (as much as you call yourself an "optimist")?

By: Ricarda Wittone

Ricarda Wittone — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

A uniquely hopeless statement.

Are you really that pessimistic Phil, in FACT (as much as you call yourself an "optimist")?

Who programmed Witty's default setting: find something to criticbize in everything Phil writes. ... Program has bugs:

Mearsheimer: Like Bush and Clinton before him, Obama will fail at creating a viable Palestinian state

Mearsheimer said "I don't see Obama being successful [on Israel/Palestine] in the years ahead." His analysis: