- David Frum: U.S.-Israel relations take a familiar route
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Well that was a productive meeting!
In the Oval Office alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama promised that he will spend the next year trying to reach a deal with Iran about nuclear weapons. If (surprise, surprise) negotiations go nowhere, at that point the President promises he will think very seriously about what to do next.
A year of talks followed by a promise to think about what to do next if talks fail: Does presidential decision-making get tougher than that?
But don't think that Obama is incapable of clarity when he wishes. His Iran policy may be vague, hypothetical and distant, but his Israel policy is clear and firm. He will not tolerate an Israeli attack on Iran (a position his CIA director has now stated publicly) and he wants full steam ahead on a Palestinian state.
- Robert Fulford: The UN speaks, and the world listens. Are we nuts?
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"Having no authority with loftier credentials to turn to, we habitually and foolishly believe what the UN says"
With Gaza quiet and the civil war ended in Sri Lanka, the United Nations has put its investigators on the job, assigning them to produce official reports that will almost certainly add to the world’s store of duplicity and hypocrisy.Next month a team from the UN Human Rights Council will hold hearings in Gaza on war crimes possibly committed during the Israel-Hamas fighting. In Geneva on Monday the Council will begin studying Sri Lanka because (as its typically pompous statement declares), “The international community must strive to deliver justice to victims of human rights violations wherever they occur and ensure that those found guilty of such crimes are held accountable for their actions.”
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