This is from the Times of London. Obama is endorsing the Geneva initiative of 2002, privately. So Dan Kurtzer may be the real wheel in the swiss watch we call Obama's brain. Obama is getting Peres on board. And presumably Rahm Emanuel too. Brzezinski is already there. Baker and Scowcroft, ditto. Limited right of return. East Jerusalem: Arab.
This is what we have said all along. The election was about this, at one level: neocons versus realists on Israel/Palestine. And Obama would triangulate Jeffrey Goldberg and John Mearsheimer.
What if everything really is different? What if all the old assumptions are on their head? What if Obama doesn't wait till the second term but acts in the first term? What if unlike Clinton he negotiates everything behind closed doors in advance? What if he lined up Sarkozy last summer? Last July, visiting the Middle East, Obama reportedly said that Israel would be "crazy" to not take this deal. What if the talk-to-Iran hammer is about this too? Sheldon Adelson knew it all along. So did David Frum and the neocons. A great transformation is taking place before our eyes.
Thanks to Rupa Shah for the tip.
