Hurricane Barack Raining on Middle East Peace

Consensus in Israel and Palestine at last, both sides are losing hope and trying to cope with the rain:

Even those who still believe in the process that Obama has championed view his conduct as a deeply unfunny comedy of errors.

“He’s like rain,” said a top Israeli official involved in diplomacy with the U.S., speaking of Obama’s role in negotiations. “You can do all kinds of things to cope with it.”

Some fret that not only has Obama failed to move the process forward, but that he and his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts may have dealt it a setback that will leave it worse off than when they began.

“Each of them has exacerbated the mistakes of the other,” said Michael Herzog, a retired general who still plays an informal role advising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s negotiators. He worries that the result of the bumbling could be “disastrous: people will lose hope in the possibility of a two-state solution.”

Fuzislippers spots the eye of the hurricane: The problem with Obama’s incompetence is not that Obama has suddenly, magically become incompetent but that he’s been incompetent all along.  Let's not be too harsh, at least the Israelis and Palestinians finally found one thing they can agree upon.

Left Coast Rebel has a roundup of one-liners from this article.  There are many.

H/T: Memeorandum
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