Few had high expectations of the meetings between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington this week and there is precious little reason for optimism now that the meetings have concluded. One thing is clear. President Obama seems to have both a moral blindeness and backwards priorities.
His insistence on an escalated pursuit of the "two-state solution" without recognizing that Iran and Hamas must be contained first is naive at best and at worst a blunder of enormous proportions. Iran is not only a clear threat to the very existence of Israel but a menace to moderate Arab states in the region and U.S. interests worldwide.
Israel continues to be pressured from all sides to agree to a two-state agreement even as Iran madly pursues nuclear weapons and supports terror groups along Israel's borders that openly call for the destruction of the Jewish state.
The UN, EU, and International Atomic Energy Agency know full well Iran's intent to acquire WMD, possibly as early as 2010, yet the U.S. and the world continue to sit idly by and watch with a disturbing intertia.
No country in the world should be expected to agree to the creation of a neighbouring state bent on and unrelentingly dedicated to their destruction yet that is exactly what Israel is being forced to do.
Gerald Hall
Parksville, B.C.
