Obama is multi-tasking and now has the G-8 on his team..!
A very simple formula indeed : Israel must
1] Stop the illegal settlement, natural or not
2] Stop the illegal blockade that is quite clearly collective punishment
Obama and the G-8's High hard One
Could it be made any simpler any clearer ? No lawyers need apply..! This is definitely the Road Map to a Just and Lasting Peace ! Now, all you nay sayers, let's hear it for Obama ! Will Netanyahu continue to crowd the Gaza plate or dust off his backside and back way out of the box ? Obama sent the message
G8 to Israel: end settlements, open borders
The Quartet of Mideast negotiators, taking advantage of a "historic" opportunity for Mideast peace with the new Obama administration, urged Israel on Friday to freeze all settlement activity and to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Hello Bibbi ! Playing hard ball here..
Israel has rejected demands that it halt all settlement building, saying it must accommodate "natural growth" in the Israeli enclaves. However the Quartet urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, and to dismantle settlement outposts erected since March 2001.
The times, they are a changing..
The Bush administration had accepted the need for some settlement growth, something the Palestinians long rejected.
But just last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated that the United States seeks a halt to settlement activity in the West Bank, saying no informal agreement that Israel may have reached with the Bush administration was valid.
Is peace at hand..? Finally
Or in a worst case dooms day scenario, will Netanyahu wildly rush the mound, bat in hand..! Clearing the benches and threatening to bomb Iran back into the minor leagues...