Obama's Senior Middle East Advisor Dennis Ross, who recently announced his resignation
Solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been at the center of Obama’s foreign policy agenda since he first took office. Yet, due to a lack of progress in peace talks coupled with the fact that Obama is about to enter an election year, it is unlikely that in the near future the administration will give any serious push for the two sides to resume talks.
Meanwhile, Obama’s Senior Middle East Advisor, Dennis Ross, has recently announced that he will be resigning from his position. Considering Ross’ extensive involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has earned him the respect and trust of many Israeli politicians, his departure will be a great loss to any efforts to facilitate an agreement.
Dennis Ross’ resignation is not the only problem Obama will face if and when he decides to refocus his agenda on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Obama’s unpopularity amongst Israelis is yet another impediment. A recent poll revealed that only 12% of the Israeli population believes that Obama is pro-Israel.
Starting from the Clinton administration, there have been three U.S. presidents who have been intimately involved in brokering a peace deal between Israel and the P.A. And up until the Obama administration, Israelis have trusted that each U.S. president had an appreciation for the Jewish people’s historical rights to the land and were sympathetic to the security concerns we face.
Given these new stats and sentiments, it has become less likely that Israel will agree to give up any land for a peace that will be guaranteed by a U.S. president whose popularity here is at such a low level.
What do you think?
1:02 pm
Obama thinks he is Israel’s best friend ever. What reality is this man living in. Friends like him one doesn’t need enemies.
2:30 am
It is time we allow Israel to do what God plans. Israel is their country and Jerusalem is their capitol and this will always be so because the word of God says and His Word is Truth……..Absolute – We can no more change the Word of God as well as we can no more change our own existance. These things He thought out and He planned for a purpose.
10:20 pm
America needs to dismantle the UN & stop being a puppet to them. We spend millions os dollars to this agency of our tax payer dollars… That could be used to get homeless,jobless citizens employed.
6:03 pm
All you need to do is see how poorly Obama treated Benjamin Netanyahu to see what he thinks about the Israeli people!!
4:41 pm
A great deal of Americans have lost confidence or never had any in our current President. He has shown that he can’t be trusted, and has further brought our country down to a mustard seed size as far as integrity goes. I personally feel we have not seen anything yet. I think that there is little hope of any other candidate being any better. We need to listen to God and make drastic changes.
5:09 pm
Steve….AMEN!!!
7:19 am
Why do you think listening to God and making drastic changes is going to improve things? We are living within the last days and that which has been written must come to pass. Peace WILL come!
8:13 am
People need to just TRUST GOD. WHO IS IN CONTROL ANYWAY AND STOP PUTTING THERE TRUST IN MAN. Jesus clearly tells us not to put confidence(trust) in any man, but God. I’m so tired of people always putting down the president, he’s just a man like me and you. Why now people are finding fault in him, when there was a problem before he became president. President’s before had mess going on and nobody said anything, if they did it wasn’t as blown out of proportion the way it is now. We still have a long way to go. We need to pray for our president, Jesus clearly tells us to do so. Pray that he is lead to make the right decisions. So, it doesn’t matter who is in office we need to pray for our leaders. They need it because there is so much corruption going on in the political arena it’s ashame. And, God is tired of it. We need to listen to God, but some people wouldn’t know God’s voice if He speak.