[Peace-discuss] Democrats & Settlements

[David Green]

http://www.alternet.org/story/140414/

Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan and other foreign policy dilemmas facing the new administration, however, the Democrats cannot blame Obama's challenges primarily on the legacy of George W. Bush. In the case of the Israeli settlements, much of the blame belongs to former President Bill Clinton and other Democrats who helped facilitate Israel's dramatic expansion of its West Bank settlements in the 1990s...........
 
Ironically, the Democrats' criticism during the 2008 election campaign of the Bush administration's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was that they were not engaged enough, in contrast to the Clinton administration, whose policies were widely praised. It is important, however, to remember that it was the former Democratic administration's policies on Israeli settlements that have largely contributed to the dangerous impasse we see today.


      
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