Do Livni And Obama Still Share The Bolshevik Dream?

Elyakim Haetzni writes about the need to give up on faded dreams whose time--even if it ever came--has clearly gone:

In Moscow’s Red Square, what is left of the believers of bolshevism still rally sometimes, under the faded red flags and Stalin’s portraits. They remind me of Tzipi Livni’s staunch, pathetic attachment to the notion of a Palestinian state.

Haetzni quotes left wing Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami, who said in an interview that the entire idea of a two-state solution is not only no longer relevant--the idea itself no longer has the support of either Israelis or Palestinians that it once did.

Today, there is no longer a Palestinian national movement, Ben-Ami added. There are two camps, a non-existent PLO and the Hamas majority; and Hamas does not accept the two-state notion.

Haetzni also quotes former Mossad Director Efraim Halevy, who comes to a similar conclusion based on more pragmatic considerations:

In a recent interview he presented the minimal terms that must be imposed on a Palestinian state: Disarmament, ban on signing international agreements, control over the aerial and electromagnetic space, and monitoring of water sources.

Halevy bases his assessment on American intelligence estimates whereby it is possible to have a rule over “territories” that is not a state entity. Netanyahu has a similar list, in addition to Israeli monitoring of such “state’s” entry and exit points.

As Haetzni points out--there is now way that a new Palestinian state is going to agree to these terms, and it is equally clear that the world will back the new Palestinian state on that:

As usual, instead of scoring some points for concessions over our historical homeland, we shall be hit with condemnations over our abuse of the nascent poor state.

Said state being controlled by the same inept and corrupt leadership that has drawn the world's pity and dollars till now.

Obama, of course, is no less enamored of the idea of a second Palestinian state as Livni is. It is an idea that just seems so right--just as his economic plans no doubt sound to him as he pushes ahead to follow the European model. At this point, both Obama's economic and Mideast plans seem to be headed towards a similar outcome.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad

[Hat tip: P. David Hornik]

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