//The problem with a mistake of this Himalayan proportions is that it will be extremely difficult in the aftermath to convince Syria that the US did not intentionally aid Daesh.//
This seems odd to me - is "Syria" in this case the Assad regime? (if so, I get it and agree).
"We all know – as have the previous two administrations – that the borders of those two states will be based on, but will not follow exactly, the lines established in the 1949 armistice and that held through June 4, 1967.
The 1967 lines will need to be adjusted in mutually agreed “swaps” of land, but they are the only basis for peace.
For nearly a generation, Israeli Prime Ministers, leaders of its defense forces and other officials have recognized that Israel’s security depends more on resolving the conflict than retaining a few extra square miles of territory. That’s why they have all negotiated on this basis – and that’s the impetus for last week’s groundbreaking ad run by prominent Israelis in Israeli papers making their case for negotiating borders on the basis of 1967 lines, which J Street reprinted in The New York Times."
"Recognizing a Palestinian state does not require bad relations with Israel." Can't be said often enough or loudly enough. In the United States (and elsewhere) the Palestinian situation is framed in a Manichean "Israel v. Palestinians" way, and right wing Israeli parties frame it this way too for their own constituencies and for foreign consumption. But poll after poll, taking into account the unreliable nature of polls taken in close proximity to terrorist events (real or imagined like many of the gratuitous fence shootings) have shown that the Israeli polity is firmly behind the idea of having a Palestinian state alongside the Israeli state along some modified version of the pre-1968 borders. Israel has a robust progressive community that extends into most demographics of the Israeli population (with the notable exception of the recent immigrant community) that fully supports the idea of Palestinian and Arab rights even within Israel. Upsetting Bibi Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Shas, Israel Beiteinu and such is simply not anti-Israel, nor need that endanger USA relations with Israel.
//The problem with a mistake of this Himalayan proportions is that it will be extremely difficult in the aftermath to convince Syria that the US did not intentionally aid Daesh.//
This seems odd to me - is "Syria" in this case the Assad regime? (if so, I get it and agree).
@Joe please check the Jstreet page here: http://jstreet.org/tell-congess-we-support-obamas-middle-east-peace-efforts/
"We all know – as have the previous two administrations – that the borders of those two states will be based on, but will not follow exactly, the lines established in the 1949 armistice and that held through June 4, 1967.
The 1967 lines will need to be adjusted in mutually agreed “swaps” of land, but they are the only basis for peace.
For nearly a generation, Israeli Prime Ministers, leaders of its defense forces and other officials have recognized that Israel’s security depends more on resolving the conflict than retaining a few extra square miles of territory. That’s why they have all negotiated on this basis – and that’s the impetus for last week’s groundbreaking ad run by prominent Israelis in Israeli papers making their case for negotiating borders on the basis of 1967 lines, which J Street reprinted in The New York Times."
"Recognizing a Palestinian state does not require bad relations with Israel." Can't be said often enough or loudly enough. In the United States (and elsewhere) the Palestinian situation is framed in a Manichean "Israel v. Palestinians" way, and right wing Israeli parties frame it this way too for their own constituencies and for foreign consumption. But poll after poll, taking into account the unreliable nature of polls taken in close proximity to terrorist events (real or imagined like many of the gratuitous fence shootings) have shown that the Israeli polity is firmly behind the idea of having a Palestinian state alongside the Israeli state along some modified version of the pre-1968 borders. Israel has a robust progressive community that extends into most demographics of the Israeli population (with the notable exception of the recent immigrant community) that fully supports the idea of Palestinian and Arab rights even within Israel. Upsetting Bibi Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Shas, Israel Beiteinu and such is simply not anti-Israel, nor need that endanger USA relations with Israel.