re: #240 drcordell

This obsession over Obama’s statements regarding settlement activity is getting ridiculous. This is not a new U.S. policy. Ceasing settlement growth (including natural growth), was a key tenet of the “Road Map” created by Bush in 2003.
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The fact that Obama is choosing to actively pressure Israel to stop settlement growth is a contrast with Bush. But the official U.S. policy with regard to settlements has remained unchanged. Even within Israel a majority of the population believes that settlement growth should be frozen, 53% to 43%.
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Obama’s stance on the issue is nearly identical to that of Tzipi Livni’s. Yet Charles states that he has an “obsessive denial of reality.” So 53% of Israelis are now separated from the reality in their own nation, according to the United States punditry? That’s rich.

What I understood Charles to say was, “the real problem (Arab rejection of Israel’s right to exist) is so difficult and unworkable that blame is transferred to an easier target (the settlements).”

It is this obsessive denial of reality that I thought he was referring to.