Well Leo, not to bash you but I have to point out a few things that many seem to missed.
First off this has been talked about before, many many times before. It is a subject that not one president has reached this level of rhetoric nor has ever tried to move the process forward. In one way I have to agree with him in his point that something should be done but on the other hand understand that something drastic and controversial could trigger some positive action.
Second it is a very complicated situation, more so than anything else we have to deal with not because of Obama, but the true evil has been involved - the UN. I would like to point out that it is also very easy to speak of all of this without the knowledge of what the region is like, what lands we are actually talking about and what the real history is - not contrived right or left version. Remove the rhetoric from the US political position, either right or left and learn from both points of view.
Third Allen West, like a lot of others have their head up their a** by making comments like this;
"Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state," said West, R-Fla., one of the leading Tea Party thinkers in the House Republican freshman class," West said in a prepared statement.
To announce the end of Israel as a state is asinine. See here is the thing that he and others miss, they are a sovereign country and have made their own decisions regardless what others have tried to force them to do. They have said the old borders are undefensible and when you look at it in an objective and informed way, they are right. It has nothing to do with as Mr. West said "... would deny millions of the world’s Jews access to their holiest site ..." but rather trying to find another solution for a complicated thing.
He went on to say;
"In short, the Hamas-run Palestinian state envisioned by President Obama would be devastating to Israel and the world’s 13.3 million Jews. It would be a Pavlovian style reward to a declared Islamic terrorist organization, and an unacceptable policy initiative.
Another stupid statement.
But left out of that is we, under Bush went to aid the people of Gaza when Israel was kicking the crap out of them. WE demanded Israel to stop for humanitarian reasons and than handed Hamas money to help with the aid. We also through our state department under Rice, aided with investigations against Israel after the Gaza War.
You can't have it both ways, we have played both sides several times but if we want to see peace in the region, we have to stay out of it and demand that the EU and the UN does the same.
