Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Blinken’s Israel visit is an exercise in damage control
Wednesday, Netanyahu brushed aside questions about restoring prospects for peace. We shouldn’t get “hung up” on the issue, he intoned. Instead, he brought up his favorite topic — the Abraham Accords, which have improved Israeli relations with some Arab countries. What he calls “going around the Palestinians” in layman’s terms amounts to abandoning attempts to improve the volatile situation. Netanyahu’s response to greater conflict with the Palestinians is a non sequitur.
But there were signs that Blinken’s private conversations with Netanyahu were candid, at least. Blinken indicated he had raised the judicial reforms with Netanyahu and suggested that he had words with Netanyahu about the state of Israel’s democracy. The prospects for improved relations between Israel and the Palestinians — let alone any possibility of a lasting peace — have never seemed so remote, in large part because the Israeli government has never seemed so bent on aggravating tensions.
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