This stance – suggested by America’s opposition to granting Palestine observer-state status at the United Nations – would amount to an admission by the US that it has given up on the creation of two states in the Middle East. That would certainly satisfy Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian fringe seeking to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
这一立场——可从美国在联合国大会上反对授予巴勒斯坦观察员国地位中一窥端倪——无异于承认放弃在中东建立两个国家的努力。这显然满足了以色列总理内塔尼亚胡以及寻求削弱巴勒斯坦权力机构的巴边缘组织。但也充分证明认为奥巴马是善人多过空想家是正确的。