A P.S. to my previous blog: President Obama has probably just made the middle-east LESS stable by his demand of Israel. What do you think Israel's neighbors will make of our willingness to come to Israel's defense should they attack Israel ... again? Are increasing hostilities more or less likely now? The unfortunate answer is obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense. What worries me most is what we will (or won't) do if Israel is attacked again. Not knowing is probably worse than a certainty we'd help them. Not knowing invites trouble because where uncertainty exists, evil tries to take advantage.
I suspect that Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, knew how Israel would react to Obama's demand before he uttered it as did George Mitchell, Obama's middle-east peace envoy, before he resigned a week prior. Obama's gambit [publicly(!) making the 1967 borders a pre-condition(!) to peace negotiations] was a guaranteed losing move and, therefore, a boneheaded move. The obvious questions is, what was he thinking? For a claimed smart guy that was not so smart.
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