Israel

[ThomasWach]

Im Anschluß an die Erwähnung von Burg und seinen in meinen Augen durchaus interessanten Überlegungen hier noch ein Aufsatz aus der NYT, der tendenziell in eine ähnliche Richtung geht und die israelische Antipathien Obama gegenüber der entschlossenen Haltung Obamas im Israel-Palästina-Koflikt attributiert.

Israelis and Obama

Polls indicate that President Obama enjoys the support of only 6 to 10 percent of the Israeli public — perhaps his lowest popularity in any country in the world.

According to media reports, the president’s advisers are searching for ways of reassuring Israel’s public of President Obama’s friendship and unqualified commitment to Israel’s security.

That friendship and commitment are real, President Obama’s poll numbers in Israel notwithstanding. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reinforce that message during her visit to Israel. The presidential envoy George Mitchell has reportedly been asked to make similar efforts during his far more frequent visits to Jerusalem.
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Israelis do not oppose President Obama’s peace efforts because they dislike him; they dislike him because of his peace efforts. He will regain their affection only when he abandons these efforts.

That is how Israel’s government and people respond to any outside pressure for a peace agreement that demands Israel’s conformity to international law and to U.N. resolutions that call for a return to the 1967 pre-conflict borders and reject unilateral changes in that border.

Like Israel’s government, Israel’s public never tires of proclaiming to pollsters its aspiration for peace and its support of a two-state solution. What the polls do not report is that this support depends on Israel defining the terms of that peace, its territorial dimensions, and the constraints to be placed on the sovereignty of a Palestinian state
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The Israeli reaction to serious peacemaking efforts is nothing less than pathological — the consequence of an inability to adjust to the Jewish people’s reentry into history with a state of their own following 2,000 years of powerlessness and victimhood.

Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/opinio...egman.html

Und nur als Info, wer der Schreiber dieser Zeilen ist:

Henry Siegman, a former national director of the American Jewish Congress, is director of the U.S./Middle East Project.