IS BUSH SELLING OUT ISRAEL? Michael Oren certainly doesn't think so--and writes as much in his op-ed in The Wall Street Journal: The Bush Doctrine Lives. Not everyone sees it that way though, especially since once again we find that as opposed to Israel--which is expected to meet demands and make concessions--Palestinian Arabs are expected to, well, 'meet expectations'. Oren himself refers to the kid gloves used when dealing with the Palestinian Arabs when he writes:

If the Israeli media largely overlooked the diplomatic innovations of Mr. Bush's speech, they completely missed its dynamic territorial and demographic dimensions. The president pledged to create a "contiguous" Palestinian state--code for assuring unbroken Palestinian sovereignty over most of the West Bank and possibly designating a West Bank-Gaza corridor. On the other hand, the president committed to seek a peace agreement based on "mutually agreed borders" and "current realities," which is a euphemism for Israel's retention of West Bank settlement blocks and no return to the 1967 lines.

If the US is not going to state clearly what it expects to happen in the area, how are we to expect the PA--or future US administrations, for that matter--to live up to commitments in the area? Or is Israel the only one who should be committed...?

Read Michael Oren's op-ed here.

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