thank you for this important insight juan. i would make one point, however, which is that the US could have forestalled it if it had done the right thing and expanded the security council permanent membership and done away with the P5 veto. if the russians didn't have the veto, they couldn't have blocked all attempts to use the SC to force a stop to the fighting and hold assad accountable. but of course that would mean that israel would be held accountable for its actions, never mind the US for ours. still, that would have been a singular achievement for obama that might have earned him that nobel he still doesn't deserve.
Great piece, Juan. One thing, Likud didn't destroy the peace process, Labor did just as much... the majority of the settlement expansion actually occurred under labor governments during oslo, as far as i remember and both peres and barak while PM did nothing to stop the process or move towards removing the settlements and offering a viable plan for a territorially contiguous state.
thank you for this important insight juan. i would make one point, however, which is that the US could have forestalled it if it had done the right thing and expanded the security council permanent membership and done away with the P5 veto. if the russians didn't have the veto, they couldn't have blocked all attempts to use the SC to force a stop to the fighting and hold assad accountable. but of course that would mean that israel would be held accountable for its actions, never mind the US for ours. still, that would have been a singular achievement for obama that might have earned him that nobel he still doesn't deserve.
Great piece, Juan. One thing, Likud didn't destroy the peace process, Labor did just as much... the majority of the settlement expansion actually occurred under labor governments during oslo, as far as i remember and both peres and barak while PM did nothing to stop the process or move towards removing the settlements and offering a viable plan for a territorially contiguous state.