Something is really wrong when a major American Jewish leader complains that the president is doing too much to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman:
Still, I continue to sense that the administration is putting too much weight on solving the conflict. We all want to see progress and I have no problem with the administration view that the U.S. must be much more engaged to achieve progress. But I am concerned when expectations rise dramatically, as when the president says that he expects the problem to be resolved in two years.
These are the words of someone who might, just might, rather see the conflict continue than see Israel forced to make tough choices on the settlements and a whole host of other issues. But when one nation is occupying another, peace doesn’t come without concessions. As David Kurtz writes, Foxman’s phrasing is “unintentionally revealing.”
—Dana Goldstein
