Maybe we should mourn the late great peace process, one of the amazing shams of history. From the Wall Street Journal‘s Jay Solomon: "Netanyahu offers no advance in peace talks." Talk about tail between their legs:
"We’re going to continue what we’re doing: which is to try and get negotiations going," said a senior U.S. official briefed on Mr. Netanyahu’s visit. "I’m sure the president will make this clear to the prime minister tonight."
And here is Ethan Bronner of the Times offering this eulogy from Martin Indyk:
“At the end of the day, I fear that the United States, Israel and the Arabs will fall short of meeting Abu Mazen’s requirements for staying on,” he said. “More than likely, we are entering a new era.”
What’s that new era? Akiva Eldar in Haaretz:
The president surely knows what every traveler in the settlers’ land knows – bulldozers are breaking ground for the new neighborhood in Beit Arye, apartment sales have started in Ariel’s "university neighborhood" and construction on a new synagogue is to begin shortly in Eli.
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[Netanyahu] has turned talking about solving the conflict into an inseparable part of managing the conflict….
When Netanyahu asks what the president intends to do to save Israel from the nuclear demon, Obama will likely answer: What do you intend to do to save Israel from the binational demon? The Americans understand that if Netanyahu doesn’t offer Abbas concrete actions instead of hollow words, the entire Palestinian leadership will go home with him and reiterate the demand made by Martin Luther King Jr., Obama’s hero: one man, one vote.
