“At the conclusion of Camp David, Clinton made these points, stressing that Israeli leader Ehud Barak had gone the extra mile to reach peace with the Palestinians: Prime Minister Barak showed particular courage, vision, and an understanding of the historical importance of this moment. Chairman Arafat made it clear that he too remains committed to the path of peace. Prime Minister Barak took some very bold decisions… I will say again, we made progress on all the core issues; we made really significant progress on many of them. The Palestinian teams worked hard on a lot of these areas. But I think it is fair to say that at this moment in time, maybe because they had been preparing for it longer, maybe because they had thought through it more, that the prime minister moved forward more from his initial position than Chairman Arafat on — particularly surrounding the questions of Jerusalem… not so much as a criticism of Chairman Arafat, because this is really hard and had never been done before, but in praise of Barak. He came in knowing that he was going to have to take bold steps and he did it, and I think you should look at it more as a positive toward him than as a condemnation of the Palestinian side… – I would be making a mistake not to praise Barak, because I think he took a big risk, and I think it’s sparked already in Israel a real debate, which is moving Israeli public opinion toward the conditions that will make peace. And so I thought that was important, and I think it deserves to be acknowledged.” (Clinton press conference, July 25, 2000)

seriously – I’m not an alarmist, but maybe more caution is in order these days.

O sweet jezuz – somebody is off his meds bigtime.

Let Netanyahu sulk if he wants to – he ain’t gonna do nuttin about it. On the other hand, Iran just might do sumpin and we need to come to some sort of rapprochement with countries like Iran.