The Middle East morality play of human savagery continues. One can review the play from many angles and with many lenses. The U.N.'s creation of Israel and the morass of unintended--and cruelly unforeseen-- consequences, the intransigence of religious and political positions and its destructive and self-destructive nature, the complicity of other removed entities who contribute to the bloody chaos for reasons unrelated to the blood-letting, the homicidal mania of the righteous.
That said, there are some practical realities here. There is the constant suffering of the vulnerable noncombatant, the poisonous mendacity of the propaganda, the sacrifice of peace and the threat of expanding mayhem.
Enter John Kerry and the esteemed Obama administration's peace attempt.
As discussed by Krauthammer this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s week-long ceasefire negotiations in Paris has firmly placed the US in the camp of Qatar and Turkey, both of which back the militant government of Hamas, while it has sidelined its traditional allies: Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- as well as offended the Palestinian Authority, Hamas’s rival for the leadership of the Palestinians. An Egyptian plan, supported by the entire Arab League and the Palestinian Authority--with the exception of Qatar--was ignored. Remember, Egypt has blockaded Gaza in their opposition to Hamas, Fatah--the leading element of the Palestinian Authority--is in a blood feud with Hamas, Hamas has supported unrest in Syria and has earned its enmity, and Hamas is intensely opposed by both the Saudis and the Jordanians. There is a profound movement in the Middle East against radicalism that, coincidentally, would benefit Israel. Yet the U.S. has aligned itself with the two outliers in the Middle East, opposed the blockade, and offered to give a cash infusion to the bankrupt Hamas!
What is happening is the efforts of the moderate elements of the Middle East to isolate Hamas is being opposed by the U.S..
What are these people thinking? How many times does an administration get to be wrong before something cracks?
That said, there are some practical realities here. There is the constant suffering of the vulnerable noncombatant, the poisonous mendacity of the propaganda, the sacrifice of peace and the threat of expanding mayhem.
Enter John Kerry and the esteemed Obama administration's peace attempt.
As discussed by Krauthammer this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s week-long ceasefire negotiations in Paris has firmly placed the US in the camp of Qatar and Turkey, both of which back the militant government of Hamas, while it has sidelined its traditional allies: Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- as well as offended the Palestinian Authority, Hamas’s rival for the leadership of the Palestinians. An Egyptian plan, supported by the entire Arab League and the Palestinian Authority--with the exception of Qatar--was ignored. Remember, Egypt has blockaded Gaza in their opposition to Hamas, Fatah--the leading element of the Palestinian Authority--is in a blood feud with Hamas, Hamas has supported unrest in Syria and has earned its enmity, and Hamas is intensely opposed by both the Saudis and the Jordanians. There is a profound movement in the Middle East against radicalism that, coincidentally, would benefit Israel. Yet the U.S. has aligned itself with the two outliers in the Middle East, opposed the blockade, and offered to give a cash infusion to the bankrupt Hamas!
What is happening is the efforts of the moderate elements of the Middle East to isolate Hamas is being opposed by the U.S..
What are these people thinking? How many times does an administration get to be wrong before something cracks?
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