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Has Obama Made a Devil's Bargain with Israel?
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For Netanyahu the threat of peace has passed.-Uri Avnery in Haaretz, Sept. 23, 2009.
The committee that awarded President Barack Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace may have been indulging in wishful thinking, hoping he will live up to the honor by achieving peace in the Middle East. If so, those hopes are yet to be realized. In an abrupt turnaround this fall, the administration abandoned its demand that Israel freeze settlement construction, rejected a U.N. report on Israel's war crimes in Gaza, and responded to concessions by Iran with threats of harsher sanctions.
The most generous explanation of such behavior is that Obama hopes that by going easy on Israel he will …
