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To: Brumar89 who wrote (336003)	11/28/2009 12:09:42 PM
From: MrLucky	Respond to of 793883

This from the NYT: Note the first two sentences. Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board. Of course, the NYT editorial board would not take their own advice when pushing Obama through the doors of the WH last year.The president went public with his demand for a full freeze on settlements before securing Israel’s commitment. And he and his aides apparently had no plan for what they would do if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no. Most important, they allowed the controversy to obscure the real goal: nudging Israel and the Palestinians into peace talks. (We don’t know exactly what happened but we are told that Mr. Obama relied more on the judgment of his political advisers — specifically his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel — than of his Mideast specialists.) The idea made sense: have each side do something tangible to prove that it was serious about peace and then start negotiations. But when Mr. Netanyahu refused the total freeze, President Obama backed down. Mr. Netanyahu has since offered a compromise 10-month freeze that exempts Jerusalem, schools and synagogues and permits Israel to complete 3,000 housing units already under construction. The irony is that while this offer goes beyond what past Israeli governments accepted, Mr. Obama had called for more. And the Palestinians promptly rejected the compromise.