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DESCRIPTION:On just the second day of his first term, Barack Obama appointed former 
 Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as his special envoy for Middle East 
 peace and boldly asserted that his administration would “actively and 
 aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.” 
 Though Obama possessed both good intentions and an understanding of the 
 Israel-Palestine conflict more nuanced than\nany of his predecessors’, 
 his once-coherent strategy quickly veered off-course. Far from being an 
 “honest broker” for a just peace, the Obama administration has only 
 enabled Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.\n\nAt the outset of 
 Obama’s second term, here is the first hard-hitting analysis of why the 
 administration has entirely failed on this issue—in part because of 
 Obama’s wrongheaded obeisance to Israeli policy and its US advocates. 
 Though Obama had expressed sympathy for the Palestinians’ plight early in 
 his career, the 2012 US Presidential election saw the two candidates 
 crassly vying to outdo one another in expressing unconditional support for 
 Israel. Yet despite the strength of the Israel lobby, Ruebner argues that 
 the growing numbers of Americans who are dissatisfied with their 
 government’s policies towards Israel-Palestine can exert pressure and 
 create real change.\n\nJosh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of 
 the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. He founded and directed Jews 
 for Peace in Palestine and Israel, which merged with Jewish Voice for 
 Peace.\n\nSponsored by San Jose Peace & Justice Center\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/26/18743851.php
SUMMARY:Josh Ruebner " Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
LOCATION:San Jose Peace and Justice Center
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/26/18743851.php
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