FISK: Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake

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- October 15, 2009

by Robert Fisk - %20http://www.independ%20ent.co.uk/%20%20%20opinion/commenta%20tors/fisk/%20robert-fisk-%20obama-%20man-of-peace-%20no-just-a-%20nobel-prize-%20of-a-mistake-%201800928.html">The UK Sunday Independent - 11 October 2009

His Middle East policy is collapsing. The Israelis have taunted him by ignoring his demand for an end to settlement-building and by continuing to build their colonies on Arab land. His special envoy is bluntly told by the Israelis that an Arab-Israel peace will take “many years”. Now he wants the Palestinians to talk peace to Israel without conditions. He put pressure on the Palestinian leader to throw away the opportunity of international scrutiny of UN Judge Goldstone’s damning indictment of Israeli war crimes in Gaza while his Assistant Secretary of State said that the Goldstone report was “seriously flawed”. After breaking his pre-election promise to call the 1915 Armenian massacres by Ottoman Turkey a genocide, he has urged the Armenians to sign a treaty with Turkey, again “without pre-conditions” . His army is still facing an insurgency in Iraq. He cannot decide how to win “his” war in Afghanistan. I shall not mention Iran. Read More…