We’re watching very closely for news about this afternoon’s meeting between President Obama and Palestinian Authority President Abbas at the White House. (I’m also curious why they’re holding it so late in the afternoon; but that’s another matter.) In the ether there’s also this pretty direct back and forth today between Secretary Clinton and the Netanyahu government on the settlement issue.
But what just caught my attention was this article MJ Rosenberg just flagged in today’s Yediot Ahronoth. It’s an interview with former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk which is very blunt about Israeli intransigence on this issue. There’s no English language version of the article but MJ has translated and flagged some key quotes.
I used to think of Indyk as on the mildly dovish but essentially mainstream, which is where I used to consider myself. But I didn’t think of him as someone who’d say stuff like this or voice a very different view of the 2000 trainwreck than is generally accepted here in the US.
