“Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called the United States’ focus on freezing construction in the West Bank an impediment to the Middle East peace process, in an article published in The Washington Post on Friday. . . .

He describes Israel’s partnership with the United States as ‘one of its greatest strategic assets’ and writes that both he and Sharon were successful in boosting this relationship ‘on all levels, based on deep and candid understandings, both written and oral.’ . . .

‘Yet today, instead of a political process, the issue of settlement construction commands the agenda between the United States and Israel,’ writes Olmert. . . .

He calls the current U.S. demands for a complete settlement freeze ‘impossible to completely enforce’ and a waste of time for valuable progress to be made in the peace process.” (Read more from haaretz.com)

There is no peace process. There is only the rhetoric which prolonges a long, slow, deliberate, bureaucratic destruction of Palestinian society.

I pay attention to this issue because my tax dollars subsidize Israel, and because, as even the 9/11 commission report acknowledged, our one-sided support for Israel is a major reason why the Muslim world hates us.

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 4:53 am and is filed under Israel/Palestine.