Blue State Blues: Is Antony Blinken Evil, Or Just Clueless?Joel B. Pollak 19 Jan 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week were so dangerously out of touch with reality that it is worth asking whether he is an evil person, or simply ignorant beyond belief.
Blinken repeated his insistence that a Palestinian state is a necessary prerequisite to peace in the Middle East — despite the proven example of the Abraham Accords, an Israeli-Arab peace agreement that occurred despite Palestinian objections, and despite any actual evidence that Palestinians want to build a state of their own that doesn’t involve destroying the Jewish state.
That wasn’t the worst of it. The most bizarre comment came when Blinken claimed that Arabs want peace more than Israelis:
And as I said before, the profound difference now I think is in the mindset of leaders throughout the Arab world and in Muslim countries, and in a way it’s a reversal, it’s a flip, as you know so well better than anyone. When in previous times we came close to resolving the Palestinian question, getting a Palestinian state, I think the view then – Camp David, other places – was that Arab leaders, Palestinian leaders, had not done enough to prepare their own people for this profound change. I think a challenge now, a question now: Is Israeli society prepared to engage on these questions? Is it prepared to have that mindset? That’s challenging. And it’s, of course, doubly challenging when you’re focused intensely on Gaza and all of the security questions that are the day-in/day-out life for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
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