The World Is Achanging BUT Not In The Middle East...

George Jonas: Obama doesn’t get the arithmetic of the Israel-Palestine situation


About 10 years ago, when the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was still with us, he gave an interview to freelance photo-journalist Flore de Préneuf. Unlike the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s cagey Yasser Arafat, whose shtick was his forked tongue, Yassin preferred speaking in plain language. “Hamas was established to resist and kick out the occupier,” he told de Préneuf. “All of Israel, Tel Aviv included, is occupied Palestine.”

Ten years later, Yessin is dead, and so is Arafat. Many of my colleagues see a fundamental change in the Middle East. Maybe it’s my glasses, but I see nothing.

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