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From Reuters:

President Barack Obama on Sunday sought to soothe Israeli fury over his new Middle East peace proposals by making clear that the Jewish state would likely be able to keep some settlements in any final deal with the Palestinians…

Always better, Mr. President, to think before you speak…

Everyone knows that the middle east is a minefield and anything to do with Israel and Palestine doubly so. This means if you wish to make a policy statement on the subject, you’d better think carefully about what you want to do and how you want to say it. Calling for a return of the 1967 borders was never going to work…Israel would never agree to commit national suicide like that. But Obama went right ahead and did it – and I can’t imagine that no one saw the speech before it was delivered. This means that input was given by State and Defense…and unless Obama has firmly implanted drooling idiocy in to both those departments, someone issued an objection to the call for 1967 borders…and it was ignored.

Is this just part of Obama’s self image as some sort of chosen person? That if he said it, it would be ok because he is Barack Obama, The One? Or are their puppet-masters who, for whatever bizarre reasons, decided that this needed to be said, objections from wiser heads be darned? No matter how you slice it, things look pretty bad – either our President, completely ignorant of foreign and military affairs, is winging it on his own or some anti-Israel ideologues have gained his ear and aren’t allowing other views to be presented.

2012 just can’t come fast enough…