There's a new survey of Arab public opinion out. Among other things, it shows that Arabs are disappointed with President Obama. It also claims that 86% of Arabs would give up on going to war with Israel if only... we'd go back to those Auschwitz borders where they could have us where they want could get rid of us.
Andrew Sullivan - who claims to be pro-Israel - excoriates Prime Minister Netanyahu for refusing to do Obama's bidding.
The powerful logic of insisting on a freeze to settlement construction and a viable two-state solution - essential to turning the propaganda tide in the terror war - is based in Arab public opinion. The reason many of us supported Obama was his unique capacity to win over the Muslim middle and isolate the Jihadist fringe. Israel's government, and its most ferocious supporters in the US, have done a great deal to destroy that promise, and, in so doing, have weakened the United States in the war on Jihadist terror.
So Sullivan is suggesting that Israel should commit national suicide so that the Arab world will like President Obama? I don't think even most Americans expect us to do that. And I'd be deeply opposed to any Israeli government that took Sullivan's demand seriously.
And the whole notion of blaming Netanyahu for Obama's unpopularity is absurd.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem
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