But he used this bid to coerce Israel into making still more unreciprocated concessions.
Ross, of course, has won fame for his career of pressuring successive Israeli governments into giving unreciprocated concessions to Palestinian terrorists.
He has used the US veto at the UN Security Council as a means of pressuring Israel to make further unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinians.
The unfortunate truth is that social circles are filled with one-way relationships and, the more unreciprocated ties you're the benefactor of, the higher your social standing.
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This position allows the Palestinians to essentially maintain their policy of demanding that Israel make unreciprocated concessions that then serve as the starting point for further unreciprocated concessions.
His demands that the Jewish State make serial and unreciprocated concessions to its Palestinian enemies - including adopting indefensible borders - have been dictated in public and high-handed ways.
Moreover, Obama has used Iran's nuclear weapons program - and vague promises to do something about it - as a means of coercing Israel into making unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinians.
Under the circumstances, the United States should not be urging, much less pressuring, Israel to make unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinian Authority in the hopes that this will keep the peace process on track.
As to the Israeli Left, to date, Netanyahu has successfully built a strong, stable center-right coalition by going over its head and forming a national consensus around support for defensible borders, a united Jerusalem and rejecting unreciprocated concessions of any kind.
Their message is always the same: If Israel does not prove that it is serious about peace by giving massive unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinians then they will abandon all remaining pretense of support for Israel and throw their lot in completely with the Palestinians.
The appeasement of North Korea intensified earlier this year with a Nobel Peace Prize- winning visit to Pyongyang by South Korean President Kim Dae Jong, and a host of concessions by the South unreciprocated by any appreciable diminution of the North's threatening "good-to-go- to-war" military posture.
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From Cooper - who pretends that Obama's unreciprocated open hand to the mullahs is what empowered the protesters - to Newsweek editor Evan Thomas who referred to Obama earlier this month as a "sort of God, " without a hint of irony, the US media have mobilized to serve the needs of the president.
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