"Give Us Netanyahu. Please."

Steve Clemons who says "Not all of you will agree with me on the piece I am sharing below, and I don’t expect you to. I read a very interesting essay by Peter Berkowitz in the Weekly Standard about the upcoming Israel elections and just have the sense that leading Israel political personalities and pundits Berkowitz was meeting with at the annual Herzliya conference have little understanding that the security levees protecting Israel in a tough neighborhood are deteriorating with the perception of America’s inability to achieve a more propitious set of results in Israel/Palestine issues and the Middle East more broadly.".... Read his piece in TWN, here

"...the strategic irresponsibility of those in Israel's leadership who think that they can hold steady on a course that justifies failure on an a Palestine-Israel deal using Hamas and Iran as excuses.....

Likewise, Mahmoud Abbas is essentially irrelevant at this point -- and all leaders in Palestine are with the exception of those who might be able to think strategically in a Gandhi-esque way and match the flamboyant absolutism and inhumanity of Israel's occuptation behaviors with non-violent civil disobedience on a communications scale that Gandhi achieved.....

In fact, the more irresponsible both sides are about their situation, the more achievable a "new equilibrium arrangement" may be -- because the US and other regional stakeholders simply can't afford for the recklessness, immaturity, and sheer stupidity of leadership on all sides of the conflict to continue.

Given that. Give us Netanyahu. Please.

His re-ascension will help Americans realize that the false choice approach the Bush administration has been taking in Israel-Palestine affairs was flawed -- and that Obama's team must change the game or face a serious rebuke from Middle East watchers in the US and around the world..."