Rabbi Lerner’s Response to President Obama’s Middle East Address is posted on the truthout web site.

The response has some good points, but expects an awful lot from President Obama.  This Palestinian/Israeli issue is such a tough one, that it may be too much to expect that anyone can come up with a solution that both sides will buy into.

As a comment on this article, I reiterated my thought about the position of denying the right of the UN to vote on a solution.

It is interesting that no vote in the UN should be allowed to create a Palestinian state although that is exactly how the state of Israel was created.

How convenient to realize that such an imposed solution is bad policy and should never be followed again just at the point where one side has already benefited from that policy and the opposite side is just now requesting the same.

In a less serious moment, I thought what poetic justice it would be to repeat the history of the formation of Israel.  Let the UN decide on the initial borders of the new Palestinian state and then let the people of the region fight a war to decide where the borders will actually be.  I am not an authority on the history of the beginning of Israel, so there is a good chance that my understanding of what happened has been warped by my upbringing.