Brent Budowsky at consortiumnews.com: Mitchell's Appointment Marks Change

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Mitchell's Appointment Marks Change

By Brent Budowsky
January 23, 2009

In the most important single move for Middle East peace in this decade, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are sending former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as special envoy for Middle East diplomacy.

Those who claimed Obama would wait regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not understand either Obama or the world. The world cannot wait. Obama will not wait.

As he promised during the campaign, Obama started on Day One to change American policy and seek a lasting peace in the Middle East.

Consider what Barack Obama did in his opening hours as President. Torture by our nation has ended. Guantánamo will be closed within the year.

The President spent his first day in office calling leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel for starters and now has announced that he will send Mitchell to the Middle East. This is change, a very big change indeed, as promised.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/012309a.html
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Thank goodness it's not Dennis Ross.

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1. "Obama will not wait"....

Unfortunately, neither will the course of events. Israel holds elections in eighteen days; the likely outcome will be the return to power of Likud, with a platform of rejecting a two-state solution, period.

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