Jack Ross responds to MJ Rosenberg's report of an imposed two-state solution:
to accept a genuine two state solution? Never mind that no Palestinian
leader with popular credibility would agree to it. Is Netanyahu really
THAT obsessed with Iran that he'll allow a Palestinian state in order
to have said obsession appeased? I'm not saying he isn't, but
something is very very wrong if he is.
Steve Walt on his blog
gives a far more muted version of the same conclusion, but frankly such
a plan as described in this story could not be more contrary to what's
actually in America's interest. Rapproachment with Iran, to allow us
to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan with some dignity, should be the paramount goal, not solving a certain ethnic conflict
on the condition that we become more belligerent with Iran, the larger
significance of said conflict and America's deep implication in it
notwithstanding.
At the end of the day, Obama runs the serious risk of becoming too invested in the two-state solution
that it could blow up in his face once its unambiguously off the
table. But if the British could wash their hands of everything in 1948
and come out reasonably OK, there's no reason Obama couldn't in the worst case scenario too.
