Why what was good for Kosovo is not for Palestine?

[Lemur]

Ahhhh... The sweet, sweet taste of French chauvinism and etnocentrism in the air...

Well ... raise your hand if you want to move to Algeria. Anybody? Anybody?

[Strike For The South]

Well ... raise your hand if you want to move to Algeria. Anybody? Anybody?

Is the meal complimentary?

[Greyblades]

Is the meal complimentary?

No but I believe the hotel has a nice selection of free shampoo.

Israel is the USA's most beloved child, while palestine... Isn't. That their activities are uncomfortably familiar to the guys staging attacks on US troops afew thousand miles east of there isn't helping thier public image in the states either. Until that changes I think the "dream of a free palestine" will stay a dream for the next decade or so.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Many reasons. Obama can't afford to say no to Israel, cause that would cost him his head (quite possibly literally). Nobody cares about “poor oppressed Palestinians” in the same manner that Kosovo managed to make the world care about “poor oppressed Kosovars”. Easy really after that UN debacle that was the mid 90's which had painted Serbia into a very dark evil little corner indeed in the public/political consciousness anyway. Lobby, too. By contrast Hamas isn't doing the image of Palestinians a favour and the PLO wasn't very kindly regarded back in the days of Arafat either...

Factions and reality never stood in the way of some big political rhetoric about freedom from either USA or Europe...