In light of the
resignation of the National Security Council's Dennis Ross, and as the
international community waits for the United Nations to
consider Palestine's road to formal statehood, we call upon the Obama
administration and so-called Middle East experts advising the various
presidential hopefuls to take some introspective "down time." The purpose is to reassess heretofore
time-honored policies, practices, political campaign pronouncements, and come up
with a realistic and viable way forward.
It is clear that
Obama's efforts toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire have been
nothing short of a failure. When tallying on to previous failed administration
attempts, the cumulative effect has been a clear loss of strategic
leverage. This loss is detrimental to the
U.S. interest of securing two states living side by side in peace in the region,
as well as influencing the likes of Syria and Iran at a critical time. This trend must be reversed and replaced by
revitalized action on a critical U.S. national security issue.
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