What do you think of Obama's endorsement of the Saudi peace plan?

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Maya

I was astonished to hear of it; I had rather written him off as a hypocrite. He is taking quite a beating for it in the U.S. media which is understandable. If he proceeds with this plan and it results in a Palestinian State he will not be re-elected; the media will see to that. I am very pleased with his statements on this Saudi initiative.

Happy2bAlive

I am optimistic about Obama but we will see how it goes.

zangwill

What else would work? It's virtually the only realistic approach.. I like it's elegant simplicity,it's rigorous fairness and I applaud the President for his moral courage. This is not going to go down well with the AJC.

michelle

he is trying to do the right thing

marry w

What will Obama and the Saudi do if the Israeli new government says no?

unforsakenme

Really? That means tht if both sides accept, the 2 state plan will take place?
I'd love to see that happen, but I have high doubts sadly.

I LOVE OBAMA! Finally, someone that's the opposite of Bush.

Zeno

I think it is the only realistic solution and I think it can only happen with firm U.S. backing; the hard-core Zionists believe in rule-by-conquest and they will make sure that Tel Aviv does not willingly give up the Occupied Territories. But the U.S. can force that if it has the will. And no one else can. Only the U.S. I can only pray he is firmly committed to this goal no matter what the political consequences in the U.S.

DA MAN (palestine shall live)

obama and the saudi prince are both treacherous hypocrites

momw

Great idea but why not 47?But you know that Israel is not going to give up anything.

m i

I think it's great, although a brief web search makes it unclear to what extent Obama actually endorsed it. It does give him slightly more credibility.

IMHO the plan has also been watered down, particularly on the "just solution for the refugees." I mean, what is just compensation for the the destruction of 500 villages, the confiscation of farms, businesses, homes, furniture, equipment, jewelry, and funds, permanent exile from ones homeland, the killing of so many who vainly attempted to return or live in or regain their own land, the mass murders of 1948 and onward?

If I were a Palestinian living under occupation and a full withdrawal by Israel to the 1967 borders was offered, I'd take it, however, the deal does little for the millions of refugees outside historic Palestine. I doubt Israel will ever agree, they'll attack Iran, dragging the US into a world war (and perhaps causing it's downfall), before they withdraw to the 1967 borders.

trancinguy

Annulled.
Citizens are itching...

chinacat sunflower

We may have to give it a bit more time.
I am a firm believer in "modern-day Nostradamus" Gerald Celenti, whose economic predictions have never been proven wrong. Now, Maya raises some excellent points (as always) but Obama won't be re-elected in 2012; according to our "seer", the middle class will be so devastated by that time that we'll be electing a third-party president, undoubtedly, Rep. Dr. Ron Paul. As every American knows, Paul is a critic of Israel and Israeli policies, and has the temerity to believe that American tax dollars should benefit AMERICANS. (Paul disputes that we should be sending one dime of American taxpayer money to Israel.)
When this happens, well hey, I can see the writing on the wall from HERE.

Calvin79

Frankly speaking,I don't think it will work!!!!!!

mir miron

Former American peace envoy Dennis Ross, who is a senior advisor to US President-elect Barack Obama on Middle East policy, denied on Monday a Sunday Times report that Obama is planning to base his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

"I was in the meeting in Ramallah," Ross said. "Then-Senator Obama did not say this. The story is false."

The Arab Peace Initiative, based on the Saudi peace plan of February 2002, calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six Day War, including east Jerusalem, in exchange for normalizing ties with the Arab world.

Quoting an adviser to Obama, the report states that during his visit to the Middle East in July, the president-elect said Israel would be "crazy" to refuse a deal that could "give them peace with the Muslim world."

According to the paper, Obama's advisers feel that the time is right for such a deal as Arab countries fear rising radical Islamic movements and a potentially nuclear Iran. They have reportedly told Obama he should not waste time, and must begin pushing his policies within his first year in office while he still enjoys maximum goodwill.

Senior Jerusalem officials last month dismissed a sudden surge of interest both in Israel and abroad in the initiative, saying it was a function of both a diplomatic process that has stalled and the transition periods in Israel, the US and the Palestinian Authority.

"Whenever the process stalls, there will be those who will pull out the Saudi plan," one senior official said. "And the Saudis have an interest in pushing this out there now, to put on a 'constructive face' with which to greet the new US president."

You must learn to read all not just PARTS !!!!!!!

About as much as I think of you.
No.

Chuck

Obama means well but it can't work; Hamas wants Israel kicked into the sea.

blackberry_abuser

no negotiations really mean anything to the arab nations...what obama's administration repeatedly refuses to recognize is that you can not reason with terrorists...

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