{"id":2152360,"date":"2024-01-18T05:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delusional-in-davos\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T05:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:39:18","slug":"delusional-in-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delusional-in-davos\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusional at Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelusional-in-davos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2152360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s Delusion<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat for an interview with <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Thomas L. Friedman at the\u2062 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.\u2063 It was\u2063 not reassuring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The exchange began with a discussion of the\u200b Middle East. The region has been aflame\u200d since Hamas attacked Israel on October\u200b 7, 2023, murdering 1,200 Israelis, \u200bkidnapping hundreds more, and spiriting away the innocents into an underground \u200dhell.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 104 days, Israel \u200chas sought to destroy Hamas and free the captives. \u200dThroughout, Hezbollah in Lebanon \u2064has been fighting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/volunteer-battalions-potent-weapon-for-ukraine-against-russia-or-problem\/\" title=\"Volunteer Battalions: Potent Weapon For Ukraine Against Russia or Problem?\">low-intensity conflict<\/a> with Israel. Militias have attacked U.S. forces deployed in Syria and Iraq hundreds of times. Houthi terrorists have fired drones and rockets at commercial shipping and U.S. naval assets in\u200d the Red Sea. On the \u200bmorning Blinken spoke in \u200dDavos, Iran launched missiles into Syria, Iraq, and nuclear-armed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/17\/world\/asia\/iran-pakistan-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>War\u200c rages. What most interests Tom Friedman, however, are the chances for a Palestinian \u2063state. \u200dHe\u2063 says it&#8217;s the key to peace in the Middle East\u2014a position from which he has not \u200dwavered, despite\u200d all evidence to the contrary, for more than 20 years. Antony Blinken is more\u2063 than happy to indulge\u200c in this delusion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you take a regional approach,&#8221; he told Friedman, \u2062&#8221;and if you pursue integration with security, with a Palestinian state, all of a sudden you have a region that&#8217;s come together in ways that answer the most profound questions that Israel has tried to answer for years, and what has heretofore\u200c been its single biggest concern in terms of\u2063 security, Iran, is suddenly isolated along with its proxies,\u2063 and will\u200c have to make decisions about what it wants its future to\u200b be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pierce through the bureaucratic lingo, and you encounter a statement breathtaking in its \u200cunseriousness.\u200c In a \u2062world filled with crises, the U.S. secretary of state\u200b has decided to resume a\u200c generations-long quest for the diplomatic Holy\u2063 Grail: a Palestinian\u2063 state. Governed by whom? His answer is a &#8220;stronger, \u2062reformed Palestinian\u2064 Authority that can more effectively deliver for its \u2063own people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where will that \u2064come from? Jupiter? This &#8220;stronger, reformed Palestinian Authority&#8221; won&#8217;t be the product of\u200d the corrupt \u200d88-year-old\u200c Holocaust denier who is\u200d in the 18th year of his 4-year term. Or the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/poll-shows-palestinians-back-oct-7-attack-israel-support-hamas-rises-2023-12-14\/#:~:text=JERUSALEM%2C%20Dec%2013%20(Reuters),respected%20Palestinian%20polling%20institute%20found.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">72 percent of Palestinians<\/a> who say Hamas&#8217;s atrocities were &#8220;correct.&#8221; To say nothing of Israel, which would not accept, nor should be forced to accept, a Palestinian state that coddles\u2064 and provides safe harbor for\u2062 terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian state is a nonstarter until \u2063Israel defeats its \u200benemies, reestablishes deterrence,\u2063 and evicts UNRWA from the premises. It is a nonstarter until\u2064 the \u200dPalestinian Authority \u200bends its incitement to murder and\u2062 its payments\u2064 to \u2062the families of \u200bstabbers, killers, and mad bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Blinken\u2014Harvard &#8217;84, Columbia \u200cLaw &#8217;88\u2014is apparently unaware that wishing does not make things so. The story he tells is\u2062 fantasy. Before October \u200c7,\u2063 the &#8220;regional\u200c integration&#8221; Blinken desires was \u200bon track not because a \u2063Palestinian state was imminent, but because\u2064 the Sunni Arab powers\u200d saw \u200dit\u2064 in their national \u200binterest to join with Israel in balancing against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>It was in the Sunni Arab interest to back the &#8220;strong horse&#8221; of Israel and its ally, the United States, to ward off\u2064 the \u2064Shiite radicals. Nor is the region disintegrating because\u200d the Palestinians remain stateless. It&#8217;s \u200dfalling apart because Israel has \u200cbeen weakened and\u200c American power has declined.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is missing from Blinken&#8217;s analysis. He says that a Palestinian state \u2064will isolate Iran and force it &#8220;to make decisions about what it wants its future to be.&#8221; Has he not been paying\u2063 attention? \u200dIran has made its decision. The\u200b mullahs\u200d want to remain in power. \u200bThey want the\u200c revolution \u200bto \u200dspread. They \u200cwant Israel gone and the United States in retreat. That&#8217;s where any serious analysis must start.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-conversation-with-thomas-friedman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a> of Blinken&#8217;s \u2063conversation \u200bruns for 6,868 words. Israel is namechecked 23 times. Iran is mentioned just six times. And\u200d four of those six mentions are\u2062 references to how Donald Trump\u200b shouldn&#8217;t have withdrawn from the Iran nuclear\u200c deal. &#8220;We had Iran&#8217;s \u2063nuclear program in a \u2063box,&#8221; Blinken said. &#8220;Since\u200c the agreement was torn up, it&#8217;s escaped from that\u2062 box, and we&#8217;re \u2064now at a place \u2062where we\u2064 didn&#8217;t want\u200c to \u2064be because we don&#8217;t have the agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, Mr. Secretary. Iran \u200dwas\u200c violating\u2063 the misguided nuclear deal \u200cfrom the get-go. It used\u2063 the money it received on cash pallets to fund \u2062its terrorist proxies across the Greater Middle East. John Kerry&#8217;s piece \u200dof \u2063paper didn&#8217;t box Iran in. \u2062The Trump administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">maximum pressure campaign<\/a>, including the killing of IRGC general Qassem Soleimani,\u2062 did that. Iran escaped when Joe \u2064Biden entered office and reversed the Trump policies, hoping\u2062 that sanctions relief and an open hand would revive the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran slapped\u2062 the hand away. Worse: The \u2063ayatollah accelerated his nuclear program, crushed a popular uprising, supplied drones and missiles to Russia to use\u200b against \u2062Ukrainian civilians, watched gleefully as Hamas massacred Jews, \u200cand ordered his proxies \u200cto \u2062spread havoc. Yet the\u2063 United States continues to refrain from\u200c imposing serious consequences on Iranian personnel, on Iranian equipment, on Iranian interests. \u2062We chase after dreams rather\u200d than confront the reality of Iranian malevolence.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the thin mountain air made Blinken feel lightheaded. Maybe he wanted to make Tom\u200c Friedman happy. Maybe \u200bbeneath the Davos veneer of self-congratulation and clich\u00e9 there\u2062 is\u200b a democratic realist plotting the renewal \u2062of American power.<\/p>\n<p>If not, we&#8217;re in trouble. An individual in the grip of delusion endangers himself and others. A delusional superpower endangers itself\u2014and the world.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published \u200cunder:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/antony-blinken\/\" title=\"View all posts in Antony Blinken\">Antony Blinken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" title=\"View all posts in Biden Administration\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/foreign-policy\/\" title=\"View all posts in Foreign Policy\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/houthis\/\" title=\"View all posts in Houthis\">Houthis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran\">Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran-nuclear-deal\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran Nuclear Deal\">Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/israel\/\" title=\"View all posts in Israel\">Israel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/nuclear-iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Nuclear Iran\">Nuclear Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/palestinian-authority\/\" title=\"View all posts in Palestinian Authority\">Palestinian Authority<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/palestinians\/\" title=\"View all posts in Palestinians\">Palestinians<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/thomas-friedman\/\" title=\"View all posts in Thomas Friedman\">Thomas Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why does Ted States, under Secretary Blinken&#8217;s leadership, still\u200c believe that a \u2064Palestinian state will solve all the problems in the Middle East and isolate Iran?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ted States, under Secretary\u200c Blinken&#8217;s leadership,\u2063 is still clinging to \u2064the delusion \u2062that a Palestinian state will somehow \u2063solve all\u200b the problems in\u2064 the Middle East and \u2063isolate Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This delusion is not\u200b only unfounded, \u200dbut it also ignores the reality on the\u200b ground. The\u200d Middle \u200bEast is currently embroiled \u200bin numerous conflicts, with various terrorist groups and militias wreaking havoc. \u200dIran, a state sponsor of terrorism, continues\u200d to destabilize the region and pose a threat to Israel and other nations. The idea that a Palestinian state will magically make \u2063all\u2063 these problems disappear is simply\u200d wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Secretary Blinken&#8217;s focus on a Palestinian state overlooks the fact that the\u200c Palestinian Authority is rife with corruption\u2062 and supports \u2062terrorist activities. It is not\u200b a responsible governing\u200d body that can\u2063 effectively deliver for\u200d its people. Any attempts to establish a\u200c Palestinian state\u200b before addressing these \u200bfundamental issues would only\u200c serve\u2062 to endanger the security of\u200c Israel and the stability \u2063of\u2063 the region.<\/p>\n<p>The notion that a Palestinian state would isolate Iran is also misguided. \u2063Iran has already made its\u2062 intentions clear \u2013 \u2063it seeks regional dominance and the elimination of Israel. It will not be swayed by\u200b the establishment of\u200b a Palestinian state. Iran&#8217;s actions\u200b and aggression should be the starting point of any serious analysis of the \u2062situation in\u2064 the Middle East, not wishful thinking about a \u200bhypothetical state.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken&#8217;s\u200b interview with \u200dThomas L. Friedman\u200d reveals a disturbing lack of understanding of the\u200d complexities and \u200crealities of \u200dthe\u2063 Middle \u200cEast.\u2062 His obsession with a \u200bPalestinian state as the solution to all\u2062 the region&#8217;s problems is not only delusional but also\u200d dangerous. It \u2063diverts attention from the real threats and\u200c challenges that need to be addressed,\u2064 such as Iran&#8217;s\u2062 nuclear ambitions and support \u2064for terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>If Secretary Blinken truly \u2064wants to promote peace \u200band\u2063 stability in the \u200cMiddle East, he needs to reassess his approach and focus on tackling the root \u200bcauses of the conflicts, rather than chasing after an unattainable and ill-conceived\u2063 diplomatic goal. The region\u2064 needs realistic\u200c and pragmatic \u2063solutions, not delusions \u2064and wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for Secretary Blinken to face the harsh \u200drealities of the Middle East and adopt a more pragmatic and informed approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">foreign policy<\/a>. The lives and security of millions of people in the region depend on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Thomas L. Friedman at Davos, Switzerland. The interview lacked reassurance. 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