| Barack Obama has thrown in the towel regarding negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and yielded to his advisors' policy of relentlessly demonising Iran, notes Patrick Seale. |
Middle East Online |
| It is now widely accepted -- and lamented -- that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel's hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel's friends in the United States -- lobbyists, Congressmen and women, neo-conservatives, Christian Zionists, and assorted Arab-haters both inside and outside the Administration -- the President threw in the towel. What is less well understood is that Obama was also defeated in another major area of foreign policy -- relations with Iran. When he came to office he vowed to 'engage' with the Islamic Republic, but this admirable objective was soon supplanted by a policy of threats, sanctions and intimidation aimed at isolating Iran, subverting its economy and overthrowing its regime. |
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