As years pass, the Walt and Mearsheimer thesis grows stronger and stronger, less arguable. The Israelis gobble more colonized territory, threatening the trickle of a process that Obama has started, and what does the Senate do?
87 Senators sign a letter pressuring Mahmoud Abbas!!! Letter is dated Sept. 24, and says nothing about colonization, but describes all the Arab “enemies of peace” and outrageous acts of violence. Liberal beacon Barbara Boxer and Pennsylvania Dem Robt Casey are lead signatories. The Cable:
The senators sent the letter (PDF) to Obama on Monday. It stated that “Neither side should make threats to leave just as the talks are getting started,” a thinly veiled reference to Abbas’s multiple statements that he would leave the talks if the moratorium was not extended.
