COMMENTARY
Obama’s Captain Obvious Moment
by Jonathan S. Tobin
November 6, 2015

Is it possible that President Obama has finally learned from some of his mistakes? That’s the question observers must be asking today after reading accounts of statements from White House officials in advance of next week’s meeting between the president and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The main revelation is that his advisers say the president understands that a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians won’t happen before he leaves office in January 2017. While cynics could chortle and say this is Obama’s Captain Obvious moment since, if this is so, then he is perhaps the last person on Earth to finally acknowledge this. But the real question here is not so much why Obama has conceded the point, but whether he is still blaming Israel for this failure and what, if anything, he’ll do to punish them for it…READ MORE