“Given the upheaval in the Arab world, Obama needs to ask himself why he thinks a Palestinian state is viable right now."

Ben-Dror Yemini, writing in YNET, which is left of center and Netanyahu’s arch enemy, makes the case: President Obama is insisting on the creation of Palestine with a border separating it from Israel based on the ’67 lines plus swaps. “Given the upheaval in the Arab world, Obama needs to ask himself why he thinks a Palestinian state is viable right now."

WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FAILURE

 Ben-Dror Yemini 3-27-15.

Two days after the Israeli elections, Islamic State carried out suicide attacks at two mosques in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, murdering around 150 individuals. The day before, an Islamic State offshoot perpetrated a terror attack in Tunisia that killed 23 people, mostly tourists.

 During the same two-day period, seven people were murdered in an attack in Kathua, India, and 70 bodies were discovered in Damasak, Nigeria. Who heard? DURING THE COURSE OF FEBRUARY, 1,977 PEOPLE WERE MURDERED BY JIHADISTS AROUND THE GLOBE – ALL IN ACTS OF TERROR ONLY. And as I write these words, reports are coming in about massacres being carried out by Iraqi-Iranian forces in the city of Tikrit, Iraq.

This time, Shia Muslims are massacring Sunni Muslims, after Sunnis, led by Islamic State, massacred Shias in June 2014. The commander of the attacking forces is General Qassem Soleimani, a mega-terrorist and commander of the al-Quds brigade of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani oversees Hezbollah and Hamas, as part of the project to destroy Israel.

And there's more. Throughout the Muslim world, more and more countries have ceased to be countries. Syria fell apart a long time ago. Libya is already fragmented, with part of the country under the control of an Islamic front, and the city of Derna in the hands of Islamic State. Parts of Nigeria have been abandoned to Boko Haram, another Jihad offshoot.

The situation in Afghanistan and certain Pakistani provinces is similar. Somalia went to pieces years ago. In recent weeks, Yemen, too, has joined the list. Jihadists are in control of parts of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Lebanon, too, don't forget, suffers from outbreaks of violence. And besides, it is controlled by Hezbollah. In fact, four countries and/or parts of countries are already under Iranian patronage – Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. And the quiet in Jordan, too, is only virtual. Real elections would see the Muslim Brotherhood rise to power.

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The Muslim world is undergoing a massive upheaval. The identity on the rise is Islamic, tribal and sectarian. Death and destruction have reached monumental proportions.

Muslims are murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims. None of the bloody conflicts – between Shias and Sunnis, and between Sunnis and Sunnis – have anything to do with Israel or the Palestinians. Most of those perpetrating the killings don't even know where Israel is on the map.

THE PALESTINIANS ARE DEEP IN THE PICTURE. ACCORDING TO A STUDY CARRIED OUT BY A RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN QATAR, THEY LEAD THE WAY IN TERMS OF SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC STATE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SHARIA LAW. And just like everywhere else where radical Islam rears its head, Hamas, too, is sowing death and destruction.

The most peaceful place in the Middle East is the Israeli-controlled West Bank. Over the past six years, 122 Palestinians have been killed there. So when Obama talks about the chaos in the Middle East because of Israel, he appears to be living in a world of his own. Because of Israel? How does Obama come up with such an assessment of the situation?