Copyrighted Image? DMCA | For Obama, there is no running away from the reality that he has been hiding his head ostrich-like from the day he left Cairo in 2009 after making a magnificent speech there on the Palestinian problem.
The events of the past week in Gaza underscore that unless he musters the political courage - and integrity as a statesman - to address the Palestinian problem, all his talk of a transformative agenda for the Middle East remains sheer baloney. Netanyahu has exposed Obama and is forcing a reset of their mutual equations even before the US president gets started on his second term in the White House. |