Almost everyone in a dispute hopes to find an honest broker to mediate their differences. The controversy over the Goldstone Report on Gaza and the active role of Turkey's prime minister therein has raised a collateral issue, which is the US role as a go-between or broker in the Middle East. So let's look at the prospect that the US can be such a broker, either alone or in tandem with Turkey, which has been actively involved in the area. Obama as Broker in the Middle East No one can be a broker when beholden utterly to one side, and while Obama sounds much better than Bush (he could scarcely sound worse), and is better in some areas, where Israel is concerned he is all talk and no action — except where supporting Israel is concerned, where his words and deeds go hand in hand. Israeli leaders have spit in his face diplomatically, and it has cost them nothing — not a penny in aid, not a bullet, not a plane, and especially not a veto in the UN. Obama takes the insulting rebuffs in public silence, reaffirms his support of Israel, fends off its critics, and continues to send it aid, just as if nothing had happened. The rest of world generally crosses its metaphorical fingers, re-reads increasingly tattered and bloodstained copies of Obama's Cairo speech, and hopes that his promise is not for nothing. And hopes. And hopes.... Now, no reasonable person expected Obama to change America's Middle East policies immediately. But few expected him to do nothing but talk, words with... >>>
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Shah Gholam, Yes they are
by Farhad Kashani on Sun Oct 18, 2009 07:44 AM PDTShah Gholam,
Yes they are all the same, cause they all share this view with the Iranian people and the world, that IRI is the biggest Fascist, war mongering, terrorism inspiring, clash of civilization initiating, human rights violating regime in the world.
Clinton himself said that when 9/11 happened, he immediately thought its one of two who did it: Al Qaeda or IRI.
So, yes, they are well aware that IRI is the biggest obstacle to peace in the middle east by constant provocation of Israel and constant meddling in the peace process by provoking Hamas and Hezbollah who dont want peace to kill any possible process.
Israel has made peace with Egypt and give its lan back, made peace with Jordan, and if IRI wasnt around, would have made peace with Syria, Lebanon and Palestine too. But IRI didnt have influence in Egypt or Jordan, but it has in the other 3 through Hamas, HEzbollah and the Assad government.