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Israel's foreign policies, particularly the occupation of the West Bank and the siege on Gaza, are seen neither as legitimate nor as having moral authority, and its political values are seen as chauvinist. As simple as it sounds, this is something that the current government seems incapable of understanding. As a result they behave with arrogance, assuming that the world is too stupid to realize how right they are: Netanyahu's lectures Obama; Lieberman's offends foreign diplomats and politicians, and Amidror's pontificates to foreign Ambassadors.
Carlo Strenger: Netanyahu Is Killing the Two-State Solution
Seeded on Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:05 PM EST
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The Netanyahu government has depleted Israel's ability to influence world opinion to an absolute low. Nye's description of soft power makes it easy to understand why: "The soft power of a country rests primarily on three resources: its culture (in places where it is attractive to others), its political values (when it lives up to them at home and abroad), and its foreign policies (when they are seen as legitimate and having moral authority.)"
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#1 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:07 PM ESTNetanyahu has, throughout his career, aimed to prevent a viable Palestinian state, and he has one captive audience in the world: US Republicans. By playing them well, he has succeeded in ascertaining a US veto in the UN Security Council. Obama's domestic weakness did not allow him to withstand Republican pressure to apply it. As a result the Palestinian bid for statehood will certainly not be a full success. Netanyahu will celebrate this as a political victory. But for Israel and its citizens, this will be a Pyrrhic victory indeed, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in a NYT op-ed published a few days ago that if the two-state solution is not implemented very soon, chaos and destabilization of the Middle East will be the inevitable result. Netanyahu's worldview is making sure that such chaos is drawing closer when the two-state solution will have been lost for good. Israel's liberals have tried everything to prevent this scenario, but the day when global public opinion will consider Israel another South Africa and push for sanctions against Israel is drawing ever closer.
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Sarkozy states he supports a two state solution at a jewish gathering just before elections in France but who is going to tie that bell around the neck of forever ever changing Netanyahu the crooked.
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