interesting information about the dynamic Obama-Ayers-Said circle that dated back to Obama’s hidden days at Columbia University, and has continued, even after Said’s death.

the US president has taken it upon himself to decide that the issues aired and left pending will henceforth be deemed by the US presidency closed between the parties.

The Quartet underlined its commitment to the irreversibility of the negotiations

But we are the sole superpower. We are Israel’s closest friend. We have an obligation to lead for the sake of peace.

Abbas’ anti-Israel statements and the hatred promoted by his official outlets, has been ignored by the West and those involved in Middle East peace.

Clearly the time has come to remove the issue of Palestinian statehood from the international agenda

PA negotiator Qureia has said that if these current “negotiations” between Israel and Fatah fail, they will demand the Arab “one state” solution.

A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers, an indication of the alarming level of Israeli-Palestinian tension in recent weeks.

January 10, 2008
President Bush Discusses Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
King David Hotel
Jerusalem
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080110-3.html
5:27 P.M. (LOCAL)
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I’d like to, first, thank Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas for their hospitality during my trip here to the Holy Land. We had very good meetings, and now is the time to make difficult choices. I underscored to both [...]

I’d like to warn against the criminal Israeli plans for the holy city. We have confirmed that there is a real danger to Jerusalem. The Arab nation should not stand hand folded when it comes to Jerusalem.

Over 100 Arabs and their supporters, including the mayor of Ramallah, Israeli and foreign leftists, and Arab journalists representing foreign news agencies marched to a Jewish vineyard and destroyed it.