Former US Diplomat: US May No Longer Have Strategic Interest Resolving Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

[Purveyor]

Former US diplomat: Obama was "enraged" by Israeli moves, treatment of Kerry; Palestinians witness Hamas, Islamic State effective use of violence.

By MICHAEL WILNER
08/27/2014 22:25

Gaza has had "very negative impact" on US-Israel relations, said Martin Indyk, former US special envoy to the Middle East process, in an interview published this week.

"It's very hard to make the argument that America now has a strategic interest in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," he said.

"The personal relationship between the president and the prime minister has been fraught for some time and it's become more complicated by recent events." Peace talks ended in April without any progress after Kerry and Indyk forged an aggressive effort first for a comprehensive peace accord, and later for a framework for the continuation of negotiations, which the US never published.

Speaking extensively on US relations with Israel since the end of the latest round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians last April, and throughout Operation Protective Edge, a candid Indyk said at times US President Barack Obama has become "enraged" at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of his chief diplomat, US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Some of that criticism, targeted at Kerry during his efforts to forge a ceasefire with Hamas through Qatar last month, "enraged" the president, Indyk asserted.

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[musiclawyer]

1. My take.

I know a lot of kids in their 20's thanks to my own. None of them want the USA spending a dime on the Middle East or Israel.

That's old and tawdry business to them that does nothing for their lives. They don't want anything to do with perpetual conflict. And you know what, they will get the government they want --one way or another.......

[Jefferson23]

2. Yea, we'll see. If the US does not bail out Israel when the inquiries are over in exchange

for the Kerry plan..I'll be very surprised. One could almost read this as an exit strategy which
culminated in their inability to work with such an intransigent state..Bibi and his crazy cabinet.

Watch out for the wrath of the US administration, they're not done yet.