[Peace-discuss] Democrats & Settlements

[Jenifer Cartwright]

The big Q is what happens now, or -- in the new terminology -- "going forward." Not too long ago, many referred to the 1967 agreement, i e dismantling ALL the settlements since that time... Jimmy Carter was promoting a plan just last year that sounded attractive and doable (at least to me) for doing just that.... but I haven't heard word one about that from anyone else -- Obama's stronger-than-Bush's stance has never mentioned 1967 boundaries, nor the established settlements, only stopping current construction... and in the face of Israel's stated refusal, he seems to be back-pedalling on that demand...
 
I-P is only part of the equation -- tho' a large part -- so long as the US is responsible for civilian deaths in Af and Pak, nothing will really change...  
 --Jenifer

--- On Sun, 6/7/09, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Democrats & Settlements
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 9:58 AM






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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