This Is How Much American Diplomats Care About The Palestinian Issue

Lee Smith:

This is how U.S. diplomats used to talk about their work in the Middle East: “Every American ambassador in the region knows that official meetings with Arab leaders start with the obligatory half-hour lecture on the Palestinian question,” one with a long tenure in the Middle East told the New York Times before Thanksgiving. “If we could dispense with that half-hour and get down to our other business, we might actually be able to get something done.”

This is the issue Arabs care about most, and yet the Americans think of it as a “boring lecture”. Add to that their humiliating caving in to Israel on the settlements issue, and you’ll understand why the Americans are losing influence by the bucketload in this part of the world and why Iran is winning.