This is rich. Having perfectly positioned himself throughout the Obama administration as the official journalist of the organized Jewish community– and gaining access to the Oval Office on that basis on repeated occasions — Jeffrey Goldberg is lining his ducks up for a Clinton administration. In an Atlantic article, he nominates Bill Clinton as the savior of the two-state solution.
The status-mongerer even dangles a Nobel Prize, saying that Bill Clinton can get a Nobel finally if he only gets on the issue. “Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Barack Obama—all… are recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Exclusion from this group cannot please such a competitive man.”
In another signal that Goldberg has access to the Israel lobby and all its money and influence, the only person Goldberg quotes is Dennis Ross, the battleaxe of the peace process, who tells Goldberg that it’s unfinished business for Clinton. Dennis Ross apparently wants to become a secretary of state. Though he slipped up by asserting in a NY synagogue that American Jews “need to be advocates” for Israel and not for Palestinians. No wonder they called Ross Israel’s lawyer.
Speaking of which, Goldberg’s article contains the usual misrepresentation of Clinton’s Camp David talks 16 years ago (!) as a giant missed opportunity for those obstructionist Palestinians. But it was a lousy offer, as confirmed by the fact that the offer a few months later was more generous; and Israel’s obstruction on Jerusalem was a deal-breaker.
The article is filled with qualifiers about the former president, future-Nobel Prize winner:
One salient assumption is that the Bill Clinton of today remains the Bill Clinton of 16 years ago. Clinton has just turned 70, and he has seemed, from time to time on the campaign trail, wan and unfocused. Peace negotiations require, as a prerequisite, large reservoirs of stamina. So his capacities are worth questioning…
Goldberg does note– now that it doesn’t matter anymore– that Benjamin Netanyahu manipulated the American government successfully:
The next Middle East peace negotiator will need to win the trust of the Israelis, and to fend off attacks by the Israeli right. Obama failed at this; Bill Clinton could succeed. It is a cliché in Israel to say that if Bill Clinton ran for prime minister, he would win easily. Benjamin Netanyahu’s manipulations won’t work as easily on him as they did on Obama.
Goldberg is saying that Netanyahu used the influence and donations of the Israel lobby to stymie Obama on his efforts to curb Israeli expansion and intransigence. But Clinton has the lobby in her pocket, because they trust her. Now he tells us.
Oh, the logic here is so obvious:
Maybe the Clintons’ dirty laundry is all so well explored that there is no risk of having Bill entertained in Jerusalem by a series of attractive Mossad agents. Also what risk could there be of any entanglements undermining his efforts to cement a deal?
Also, as far as Clinton’s major donors are concerned, these guys are all losers — so why would Bill want to compete for the same prize they got? “Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Barack Obama—all… are recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Exclusion from this group cannot please such a competitive man.” On the other hand, Henry Kissinger and Elie Wiesel also got the prize …
Goldberg.
I hope we haven’t forgotten that this self-described genius who championed the Iraq invasion, ” I didn’t realize how incompetent the Bush administration could be.”
Hey Jeff,
I got W on the line for you.
“Fool me once….can’t get fooled again.”
It’s hard to see why Bill Clinton should succeed this time when he has tried once before without success. Netanyahu’s manipulations presumably include blackmail with the aid of a lot of plausible information. I wonder what he had on Obama? Recordings of vigorous agreement with Jeremiah Wright, perhaps? He will certainly have a fat dossier on the Clintons, not necessarily all true but probably quite sensational.
That Goldberg treats Netanyahu as in effect the main obstacle to peace is quite interesting.
As long as the zionists wants the status quo, and wants to keep this ridiculous decades long occupation, and keep building illegal settlements, which even the US keeps pretending it is against, no one, no one can persuade them to get their greedy behinds to a peace table in all sincerity. Goldberg is trying to get skeptics like us to give Hillary a chance, with the hopes that her husband will produce this miracle. She is after all the darling of the zionists, and helps them keep this charade of an occupied and long suffering people WANTING to live under terrible conditions, having to live with contaminated water, blockaded, and no hope.
As long as the US keeps aiding, arming, and giving these zionists a free pass, to kill, occupy, and steal, there will be no damn 2SS in our lifetime. This is reality.
Nothing like having these arrogant traitors so fully enmeshed in US foreign policy decisions. And they remain untouchable because Dick and Jane remain clueless–it’s just over their heads, and our main media does all it can to keep it that way. Disgusting. I see no end in sight, no matter whether Hillary or Trump sit in the POTUS seat.