Is it election season? Laura Rozen reports that Dennis Ross, the Obama aide at large, and really a representative of the Israel lobby, went to AIPAC in Florida to talk about Iran etc. Read the speech and you will see all the talk about the joint exercises with Israel and fighting delegitimization. Delegitimize appears twice. So the world is turning against Israel, but we’re not, Ross is assuring the Israel lobby. People are afraid, they hear footsteps.
This administration’s commitment to Israel has also been demonstrated in our work to defeat efforts in international organizations to single out or delegitimize Israel. Most recently, we successfully coordinated the opposition to a resolution at the IAEA General Conference singling out Israel’s nuclear program for rebuke. …
I don’t have time to go through how we are working intensively to jump-start negotiations today, but I do want to close with a couple of points about the need for peace and the importance for both sides to take the strategic and historic decisions that are required to preserve a two-state solution before it is too late.
Two questions: Why is it singling out Israel at the IAEA when Israel is the only power in the Middle East with actual nuclear weapons? If you’re talking about nuclear weapons in the Middle East then you have to talk about Israel.
Also, preserving a two-state solution “before it is too late.” What follows if we don’t get there? I don’t think we will. So what’s next, Dennis?
