Daniel Levy: - The US diplomatic strategy on Israel and Gaza is not working

Klar kritikk av USA's forhandlingsopplegg for å få slutt på krigeni Gaza.
Spesielt kritiseres Blinken.

"The US diplomatic strategy on Israel and Gaza is not working"

Utdrag:

 "Netanyahu’s ideological preference is for displacing Palestinians and eviscerating their rights, alongside pulling the US more actively into a regional clash with Iran; his short-term political goal is to maintain an open-ended war which can accommodate varying degrees of intensity, but not a deal."

"Repackaging Israeli proposals and presenting them as a US position may have a retro feel to it, but that does not make it cool. And it won’t deliver progress (it can’t even sustain Israeli endorsement given Netanyahu’s constant shifting of the goalposts to avoid a deal). That the US has zero credibility as a mediator is a problem. That it has conspired to make its contributions not only ineffective but counterproductive is devastating. Even Itamar Eichner, a diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli Yedioth newspaper, describes Blinken’s visit as having displayed “naivete and amateurishness … effectively sabotaging the deal by aligning with Netanyahu”."

Dette er sterke ord.
Og Daniel Levy er tidligere forhandler for Israel:
"Daniel Levy is the president of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator."

Skudeneshavn   27. august 2024

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:
27. august 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/27/israel-gaza-us-diplomacy