Former U.S. Delegate To The U.N. Human Rights Commission On "Obama And Palestine"

Jeff Robbins served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva during the Clinton Administration. He writes that "the refusal of Palestinian politicians, academics and clerics to stipulate that they accept a permanent Jewish state existing next to a Palestinian state is, of course, at once a dirty little secret and the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to the debate over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict... The Administration's purposeful distancing of itself from Israel is likely to empower those who have always believed, and who continue to believe, that in the fullness of time, American support for Israel can be degraded, and with it Israel's ability to survive. Those in the Arab world who have counseled that that is the case—and there are many of them—will take the Administration's insistence that it wishes to be "an honest broker" as evidence that, at long last, American support for Israel has begun to erode, and that it is only a matter of time before it is no longer necessary for them to pretend that it is a two-state solution in which they are interested. If this proves to be the case, the Obama Administration, while intending to be helpful, will have inadvertently dealt whatever prospects exist for Middle East peace a serious blow."

Read the full article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124693682423904037.html?mod=googlenews_wsj to get a full picture of how the Palestinians have refused to even recognize the right of a permanent Jewish state in the Middle East.
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