says that Obama engaging with Hamas could cause all kinds of problems. I'm sure. And how is it engaging with Israel?
The Guardian has reported that Obama plans to talk to Hamas. And speaking of Aaron David Miller and the peace process, Glenn Greenwald lighted on this in his steel-trap-mind kinda way:
Long-time Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller, in Newsweek, earlier this week made one of the most startling revelations in some time — that in all the time the U.S. has supposedly been attempting to forge a Middle East peace agreement over the past 25 years, it never once, in any meaningful way, raised with Israeli leaders the damage that comes from Israeli settlements. Specifically, said Miller: "I
can't recall one meeting where we had a serious discussion with an
Israeli prime minister about the damage that settlement activity —
including land confiscation, bypass roads and housing demolitions —
does to the peacemaking process."
can't recall one meeting where we had a serious discussion with an
Israeli prime minister about the damage that settlement activity —
including land confiscation, bypass roads and housing demolitions —
does to the peacemaking process."
