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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBibi's Win Is Kerry's Defeat.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/benjamin-netanyahu-john-kerry-reaction-116214.htmlInteresting article from Politico
merrily
(45,251 posts)trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)mylye2222
(2,992 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Follow the ideology and find the idiotology!!!
The wingnuts will spend their money on media outlets, and hope no one notices (oooh, pretty colors, cool graphics...never mind it is run by far right crazies...!) ...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)was running in the Israeli election. Hence it is not a defeat for him despite the author's viewpoint.
TexasTowelie
(112,202 posts)and that he gets a peace deal done in the next term?
bananas
(27,509 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Israel does not want peace. They've proved that over, and over, and over again for the last seventy years. Why seek peace when you're winning the fight?
Palestine may or may not want peace, but either way they have exactly zero power or influence to get it - or to fight against it.
And Obama has no more interest in an independent Arab state arising in the middle east. hell, look at all the money and effort we put towards keeping hte existing once in states of repression and anarchy? Why would we want another one?
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)The latest election results suggest that about one Israeli in six wants peace (or at least, wants it enough to vote for a party in favour of it).
It's harder to gauge for the Palestinians, because their democracy is broken - I guess the number is more than 1/2, but less than 9/10, but that's just guesswork.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)In the meantime, it's the 5/6 of voters that are banging swords on shields and screaming for blood that you ought to be concerned about.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)FSogol
(45,485 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He needs to focus on areas where he can actually do some good. Any progress on this subject will be via the UN, not speaking with Israel
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)to every single thread about single payer or public option and your eventual arrival in said threads.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)with that piece is it source. First the article is not snarky, for once towards Kerry or the Obama administration. Plus it stated that Netanyahu deliberatly sabotaged the peace talks.
Of course Kerry didnt ran. The columnist just explains that a third Nuttanyahou term is 1) the lost Obama and Kerry's hope to see a more open executive take office in Israel 2) a no the any possible peace process reopening as long as this extremists sits in office.