Is the White House trying to buy off Israel?
With the Middle East “peace negotiations” now officially underway and essentially not much being expected of them, I thought two stories recently were worth highlighting for you.
Report: Obama trades weapons for talks
US President Barack Obama sent a letter of guarantees to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in bid to save direct peace talks from collapse, Israel’s Hebrew language daily Maariv reported on Wednesday.
The guarantees were reportedly in exchange for an immediate halt to settlement construction, and dealt with issues around Israeli security negotiated between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and head of the Israeli negotiating team Isaac Molcho during their New York and Washington visits over the past weeks
White House denies Obama sent freeze letter to Netanyahu
Spokesman contradicts reports that in return for a two-month extension of building freeze the US guaranteed future weapons deliveries and an IDF presence in Jordan Valley, among other promises.
“At its core, the draft letter offers a string of assurances to Israel in return for a two-month moratorium extension. More specifically, U.S. officials indicate that the document makes commitments on issues ranging from current peace and security matters to future weapons deliveries in the event that peace-related security arrangements are reached,” Makovsky wrote.
My question whould be; how in the hell will this actually solve anything? Ok, another 60 days, wow the Palestinians should really be thanking their god now. This is just another example of how Israel and the U.S. do not care about peace at all.
The U.S. is reportedly agreeing to INCREASE our aid to Israel for a measly 60 more days of partial building instead of full out colonization (which is already occurring daily despite this “moratorium”). There is not even a modicum of incentive for Palestinians to accept this deal, though the puppets that are Abbas and Fayyad are another story all together and never are really acting in the peoples interest.
The inevitable failure of these “negotiations” will lead to the keeping of the status quo and that is EXACTLY what Israel desires.
Until next time…
