President Obama with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel last year. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
New York Times: Obama Seeks to Pave Way to Mideast Deal After He Leaves Office
WASHINGTON — President Obama, resigned to his failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, is looking past his time in office and weighing a plan that would preserve at least the principle of a two-state solution for his successor to pursue.
The White House is debating whether the president should lay down the outlines of an agreement, several officials said, perhaps through a resolution at the United Nations Security Council or in a presidential speech. The objective would not be to revive direct negotiations — almost nobody believes that is likely now — but to enshrine the proposals Secretary of State John Kerry made during his last failed effort at peacemaking in 2014.
A Security Council resolution, officials said, would give enduring legitimacy to the compromises that Mr. Kerry hammered out in private between the two sides, and build broad international support for a series of proposed solutions that could provide the framework for a future Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
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WNU Editor: This is an easy prediction .... the next President will be pursuing his (or her) own agenda when it comes to the Israelis and Palestinians. As for President Obama's current efforts .... no one (Republican, Democrat, Israeli, or Palestinian) is interested.
1 comment:
This is about as effective as Obama voting present multiple times as a state legislator.
Obama will go Jesse Jackson meltdown before it is over.
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