The Big Demotion

Remember how before we liberated Iraq from Saddam's tender mercies that the anti-war left said we had to solve the Israel-Palestinian problem first?

The Palestinian issue was so important to non-Palestinian Arabs that failure to solve that problem would halt or doom any other initiative, they said.

In the end, freeing Iraq didn't seem to rely on solving the Palestinian question.

Indeed, our intervention in Libya didn't hinge on solving the Palestinian question first.

And it won't stop us from intervening more in Syria.

Indeed, for Arabs themselves in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, solving the Palestinian question first doesn't seem to take priority over their own issues with their governments.

Arab governments themselves seem to be far more worried about Iran and their nuclear ambitions than the fate of Palestinians.

I wonder who in the Obama administration got the job of breaking it to the Palestinians that the Middle East doesn't revolve around them any more?