THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST

in adopting the rhetoric of peace in the current unfolding events in the middle east, especially as it pertains to the longstanding conflict between palestine and israel, mr obama is continuing a tradition of obfuscation which makes it more difficult to understand the truth of human history.  peace should never be the goal of any movement among the people of the world in any conflict anywhere. the goal now as always can only be justice, though justice — truly egalitarian disinterested reciprocal justice — always and inevitably presages enduring peace and is in fact the only path to it.