O, Jerusalem, Part Deux

To my tardy listeners only - do not read Part Deux until u have read Part Une (See below).

In response to the several negative responses (see part une) to the Man Made Disaster delivered on Thursday, the President went into the Lion's Den yesterday, AIPAC, seeking to give it to his many critics - that is, the Answer to the only real question - why now?

Here is his straight forward and true, I believe, answer:

"The march to isolate Israel ... will continue to gain momentum in the absence of a credible peace process. For us to have leverage w/. the palestinians, w/. the arabs and w/. the international community, the basis for negotiations has to hold out the prospect of success. So, in advance of a five day trip to Europe, in which the Mid-east will be a topic of acute interest, I chose to speak about what peace will require."

There u have it, without a doubt, Mr. Obama did it so the French and Italians will not speak harshly to him about Israel over the next five days. We should all be reassured - now that the "international community" has Israel's back, peace in our time is just around the corner.

Clearer still from his remarks to AIPAC is the President's cognitive dissonance commitment to the two state solution - Israel and Palestine - two sovereign nation's side by side, together in harmony:

"As for security, every state has the right to self defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against threats ... The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated w/. the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a SOVEREIGN AND NON-MILITARIZED state. "

Sorry, Mr. President, you can give the palestinians a sovereign nation or a non-militarized state, but not both together. As U told us - "every state has the right to self defense" - so when Palestine joins the community of nations in the United Nations, it will be fully entitled to have an army, a navy and an air force to defend its international borders against foreign threats.

So, again we are left with but one question - does this President not know the meaning of the word "sovereign", or does he not care that we do know, so long as the mean Euroes are nice to him this week? ... Just asking.