Daniel Kurzer is the former ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush and the former ambassador to Egypt under President Bill Clinton.
The leaders, such as they are, are not equal to the task. The Israeli government is led by a prime minister driven primarily by his own political survival and who doesn’t care what others think about its actions in Jerusalem or Gaza. Hamas has exploited Jerusalem to lay claim to leadership of the Palestinian national movement on the wings of thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately to kill civilians in Israel.
In the face of so much dispiriting predictability, it is difficult to imagine that the Biden administration, which is so preoccupied with a suite of major domestic problems, would want to engage deeply with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. So the policy drawing board is empty in all locations, including Washington. Burdened with the greatest domestic challenge since Franklin Roosevelt , it was a foregone conclusion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be the lowest of priorities for the administration. There isn’t a single foreign policy issue more threatening to the Biden presidency or to the future of the Republic than the crises at home.
Let us be clear: This does not involve a major initiative to tackle the final status issues such as Jerusalem; borders; and refugees in some kind of maximal conflict-ending accord. That’s not going to work at this time.
• Reopen a consulate general in Jerusalem, and appoint a consul general to intensify direct dialogue with the Palestinian Authority and demonstrate that the U.S. relationship with Palestinians is not derivative of U.S. relations with Israel.
HAMAS MUST GO.
He is 2 weak and leaderless ..
He can start by challenging the ethno-supremacist ideology that animates Israel.
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