After a two-hour assembly in Cairo, Khaled Mashaal, unelected personality of Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas, unelected personality of a Palestinian Authority, were all smiles. "We wish to assure a people and a Arab and Islamic universe that we have incited a vital new and genuine page in partnership on all to do with a Palestinian nation," Mashaal announced. "There are no some-more differences between us now," concluded Abbas.
In other words, a "moderate" Abbas is now a full partner with a personality of an classification whose licence is committed not only to a drop of Israel though also to a rejecting of all Jews everywhere. This is a same Abbas who dispossessed whatever slim explain he hold to a assuage standing by disappearing to accept Israel as a Jewish state, refusing to rivet in approach negotiations with Israel (as recently as final week arch Palestinian Authority adjudicator Saeb Erekat declined a Quartet ask to lay down with a Israelis), and flouting a Oslo Accords by going to a United Nations to direct recognition. Now, he is rigourously partnered with a genocidal, Islamist organization. But a Obama administration thinks Israel is a problem.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, a Muslim Brotherhood won 40 percent of a opinion in parliamentary elections, while another 25 percent went to Salafi forces. The Salafis courtesy a Muslim Brotherhood as squishes. Sheik Abdel Moneim el-Shahat, personality of a Salafis, is taunting of a Muslim Brotherhood for articulate about citizenship and leisure outward a strictures of Islamic law. El-Shahat is not so broad-minded. "I wish to say: citizenship limited by Islamic Shariah, leisure limited by Islamic Shariah, equivalence limited by Islamic Shariah." So two-thirds of a Egyptian citizens support possibilities who will find Hamas definitely congenial. But a Obama administration is perturbed by Israel.
In Syria, a regime's heartless massacres of pacific protesters continue. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, pronounced this week "We are fixation a figure during 4,000. But a information entrance to us is that it's most more." Guess who a Obama administration is indignant at?
In Turkey, a Islamist celebration won a outrageous feat in June, needing a supervision to moment down on antithesis voices (jailing hundreds of critics) and pierce a once-Western oriented Muslim nation some-more resolutely in a instruction of an Islamist state. Turkey has also noisily upheld Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Islamists in other Muslim nations.
Inexorably, Iran continues a impetus toward chief weapons.
The Muslim universe is in turmoil, and so far, a formula do not bode good for peace, democracy or development. But what worries a Obama administration? Israel.
Twice in a past week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced that a troops dispute on Iran's chief capabilities would do some-more mistreat than good. This is a vigilance not only that a Obama administration (its promises never to assent an Iranian explosve notwithstanding) has no goal of regulating force to forestall Iran from going nuclear, though also that it seeks to forestall Israel from acting. Panetta also dispensed recommendation to Israel, snapping, "Get behind to a damn table," as if Israel, not a Palestinian Authority, were a celebration boycotting negotiations. It is Israel's responsibility, a invulnerability secretary implied, that a segment is apropos ever some-more radicalized and that Israel's before considerate family with Egypt and Turkey are fraying. Repairing to a favorite countenance of those with zero on a line, Panetta demanded that Israel "take risks."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also managed to put a finger in a eye of a region's sole democracy. Speaking to a Brookings Institution gathering, Clinton voiced dismay about Israel's diagnosis of women. She had review a Washington Post mainstay suggesting that some Israeli busses in ultra Orthodox neighborhoods were sex segregated, forcing women to lay in a back. Clinton fumed that it reminded her of Rosa Parks and Iran. She unsuccessful to discuss that a emanate has already been litigated in Israel. The High Court has announced sex separation illegal. But because acknowledge a workings of a colourful democracy when we can viewpoint about Rosa Parks?
In Belgium, Ambassador Howard Gutman suggested that Arab anti-Semitism springs from a dispute between Israel and a Palestinians. He after insisted his comments were "taken a wrong way."
Speaking to intensity Jewish donors, President Obama preened, "I try not to pat myself too most on a back, though this administration has finished some-more for a confidence of a state of Israel than any prior administration." Both clauses of that judgment are priceless.
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