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Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process
| I put this under Opinion because, while the the Foreign Policy reporter is doing nothing more than delivering former President William Jefferson Clinton's statement, that statement is considerably more opinion than fact. Before reading this, I considered the honourable gentleman highly intelligent but immoral. Now I can't decide if he's dumb and deluded or just plain lying like his Democratic colleague, the former president James Earl Carter. |
Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Clinton, in a roundtable with bloggers today on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, gave an extensive recounting of the deterioration in the Middle East peace process since he pressed both parties to agree to a final settlement at Camp David in 2000. He said there are two main reasons for the lack of a comprehensive peace today: the reluctance of the Netanyahu administration to accept the terms of the Camp David deal and a demographic shift in Israel that is making the Israeli public less amenable to peace.
| Read the rest at the link. I was going to fisk it, but Elliott Abrams does a much better job here. |
| Mr. Bill hoped to make a huge mark in the history books with his Camp David talks between Barak and Arafat. Didn't work. He's been pissed ever since. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-23 |
