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Newspaper Roundup for Jan. 5, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... Career Development Would Change for Those Who Remain Washington Post: Commentary: The Three-State Option for the Middle East Washington Times: ...
Bolton's static world
Israel Matzav —
... I like John Bolton. I really do. But he goes way off base in an op-ed in today's Washington Post. Bolton assumes that the State Department's view of the world is correct: that Israel's conflict with the Arabs is about land and not about Israel's 'right' to exist as a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. And he makes the same mistake Menachem Begin made at Camp David: He assumes that what is will always be . Let's start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn. Hamas ...
Heil Hamas!
Jules Crittenden —
... : Gaza 2009 does not equal Lebanon 2006. Not least because Israel 2009 does not equal Israel 2006. Bolton at WPost : Three-state solution … none of them Palestinian. Gaza reverts to Egypt, the West Bank to Jordan, and we all move on. It’s a thought. Bolton notes obstacles include Egypt and Jordan, who’ve been trying to move on themselves. ...
Bolton: “two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn.”
Israpundit —
By Ted Belman
Everyone is fisking The Three-State Option, the latest John Bolton article published by the Washington Post.
Let’s start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn.
So far so good but he goes on to argue
Instead, we should look to a “three-state” approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. ...
The three state solution
Stubborn Facts —
John Bolton proposes that we accept the failure of the two state solution, and prefer pushing Gaza into Egyptian control and the West Bank into Jordanian control. Thoughts?
NSN Daily Update 1/5/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... the sad realities of war from both the Israeli and Palestinian perspective. Roi Ben-Yehuda had an article in Ha’aretz last week about Muslim support for peace. Anshel Pfeffer takes a look at the mixed reaction of the Jewish Diaspora. Aaron Miller argues for a new American approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A fascinating exchange between Rabbi Eric Yoffie and J Street. John Bolton proposes a three-state solution.
Does John Bolton Recognize Palestine’s ‘Right To Exist’?
Wonk Room —
... Former recess-appointed UN ambassador John Bolton writes that “war in the Gaza Strip demonstrates yet again that the current governance paradigm for the Palestinian people has failed.” ...
John Bolton continues to have no clue but plenty of propaganda...
At-Largely —
John Bolton, who likes to fashion himself an expert on Middle East affairs, illustrated quite the opposite during his tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Despite having the rest of the world laughing at us, and despite being wrong on every thing he ever said with regard to the Middle East (bomb, bomb, bomb Iran), he still get his opinions printed. Here is his rather (paid for?) odd description of the Gaza conflict ...
John Bolton, the Mainstream Media's Favorite Neocon?
TPMCafe —
... of worthwhile agreements, such as the effort to cap and roll back North Korea's nuclear program. But his fall from power has come at a price. He is now the mainstream media's neocon of choice, widely quoted in news articles and placed prominently on op-ed pages as if he were just another pundit, not the co-author of some of the most disastrous policies in our nation's history. The last straw may have come today, when Bolton simultaneously had articles on the op-ed pages of the Washington Post and the ...
Amygdala — MY TREAT: a short treatise on what treaties can't do. Which is to say, am I the only blogger who remembers the Bricker Amendment? (That is, reading about it in books; I was only born in 1958.) As I wrote here (on what may become the first page here), lazily cribbing Wikipedia, because I happen to have read lots and lots of 20th century American history over the years: Oh, goody, we get to talk about the Bricker Amendment. So far as I know, this has been a talking point of the maniac rightwing since the days of the John Birch Society, the founding of the U.N., and the fricking Bricker Amendment, and it's never been other ...
Status Quo Ante?
Rhymes With Right —
That seems to be the proposal of former UN Ambassador John Bolton return Gaza to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan because the two-state solution has failed. nstead, we should look to a "three-state" approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. Among many anomalies, today's conflict lies within the boundaries of three states nominally at peace. Having the two Arab states re-extend their prior political authority is an authentic way to extend the zone of peace and, more important, build on governments that are providing peace and stability in their own countries. "International observers" or the like ...
QADDAFI's SURPRISING ADMISSIONS
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
The New Duranty Times invited Muammar Qaddafi to write an op-ed on Israel and the Arabs. It was no surprise to read that he advocates dissolving the Jewish State by returning it to the Arabs. He thinks that Israel should be replaced by a new country to be called "Isratine." But that's old hat. What did you expect he would say? What I thought was more interesting were several of the points he made on the way to his stated conclusion. Did you ever think a Muslim Arab leader would admit this: The Jewish people want and deserve their homeland.Not "a homeland." Their homeland. What about ...
