{"id":1737,"date":"2013-01-18T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T21:05:11","slug":"obama-israel-doesnt-know-what-its-best-interests-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/obama-israel-doesnt-know-what-its-best-interests-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: “Israel doesn’t know what its best interests are”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the UN vote to upgrade Palestine’s status to non-member state last fall,\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intent to develop E-1, a crucial area between Jerusalem and Jericho\u00a0that is Palestinian land and would, if developed into\u00a0Israeli settlements, virtually cut the West Bank into northern and southern enclaves.\u00a0 Netanyahu also announced the building of\u00a03000 new illegal settlement units in\u00a0the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to American \u00a0journalist Jeffrey Goldberg,\u00a0 “In the weeks after the UN vote, Obama said privately and repeatedly, ‘Israel\u00a0doesn\u2019t know what its own best interests are.’ \u00a0With each new settlement announcement, in Obama\u2019s view, Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Goldberg, “What Obama wants is recognition by Netanyahu that Israel\u2019s settlement policies are foreclosing on the possibility of a two-state solution, and he wants Netanyahu to acknowledge that a two-state solution represents the best chance of preserving the country as a Jewish-majority democracy. Obama wants, in other words, for Netanyahu to act in Israel\u2019s best interests.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Netanyahu is expected to win the upcoming Israeli election handily.\u00a0 Read more about the\u00a0Israeli elections.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the UN vote to upgrade Palestine’s status to non-member state last fall,\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel’s intent to develop E-1, a crucial area between Jerusalem and Jericho\u00a0that is Palestinian land and would, if developed into\u00a0Israeli settlements, virtually cut the West Bank into northern and southern enclaves.\u00a0 Netanyahu also announced the building of\u00a03000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8040,479,7684,8081],"tags":[8188,8189],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-history","category-peace-process","category-regional-developments","tag-israeli-elections","tag-netanyahu"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nObama: "Israel doesn't know what its best interests are" - SUMUD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama: "Israel doesn't know what its best interests are" - 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