Giuliani adviser Martin Kramer has a noteworthy op-ed on Hillary Clinton's Midde East policy in the Jerusalem Post. The piece takes off from Clinton's Foreign Affairs essay. Kramer says Clinton is triangulating on Israel, and he doesn't like what he sees:
The message is this: a Hillary administration would constantly busy itself with Israeli-Palestinian talks, regardless of their prospects, and would strive to avoid any appearance of partiality - toward Israel. The hyper-activism is made explicit in the promise of 'consistent U.S. involvement,' 'whether or not the United States makes progress.' This is exactly what the US did during the Clinton years, when Yasser Arafat visited the White House 11 times, and met with President Clinton 24 times. Not only did this 'consistent involvement' at the highest level not produce any progress, it raised the expectations of Palestinians to an absurd level, leaving them more intransigent and belligerent than they were at the outset. Obsessive US diplomacy eventually blew up in Washington's face when Arafat launched a so-called 'intifada' against Israel in 2000. It is all the more astonishing, then, that Hillary, who witnessed the debacle from up close, thinks 'consistent US involvement,' whatever its outcome, will 'lower the level of violence and restore our credibility in the region.' She ignores precisely the lesson inflicted upon us by the failed policy of the Clinton administration: If the US obsessively tinkers with this issue without result, it is bound to raise the level of violence and damage our credibility.
Read the whole thing.