03 Peace for two nations by two other nations; Failure or Success?

  

 Foreign Policy magazine has published an article titled “The tragicomedy of Obama’s peace effort” on its website.

   It deals with overall policy of the U.S. toward the conflicts between the Arabs and the Israelis and Obama’s effort to divert the conflicts onto peace road. The writer believes that Obama himself is not very optimistic about progress between two sides, especially when he is aware of a sturdy obstacle that hinders all peace efforts, Israelis settlements. Every U.S. administration since 1967 has opposed settlement construction but no U.S. president has ever supported what they had said. In fact there have been no practical solutions by U.S. president concerning settlement construction despite claims about offering the solutions. The Obama administration is not able to be a positive catalyst for this conflict because firstly congress does not support Obama and secondly Netanyahu simply cannot freeze settlements, even if he wants to.

   Iranian president visited Lebanon and received a warm welcome from a part of the Lebanese. On the other hand some look this visit cynically. Ahmadinejad slammed Israel and emphasize Iran’s support for Lebanon and its resistance.

   Iran and the U.S. are trying to bring peace to the region according to their own prospects but none of them would success because a peace according to prospects of each of them causes discontent of the other side. In bringing peace to the region Iran and the U.S. first want to serve their own interests and this kind of peace is not the expected peace by the people of the region, a peace that leads to a stable and safe region for the people who have lived in the region since the early times. So people of the region have to reach an agreement without interferences of other nations that necessarily seek their own interests.