NEWSMAX: … “The only places where we have real troubles are Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran,” says Young, the former Atlanta mayor who retired last year from the GoodWorks International global advisory firm he founded in 1996. “Russia and China were far greater threats, but we talked to them, we worked with them, we found nonviolent ways to have regime change through evolution rather than through war…
It’s hard for me to be optimistic because I know too many of the problems, but we’ve reached a stage in the development of the region where we have to find a solution,” Young tells Newsmax about Obama’s trip. “We have not been able to reach a solution because we’re talking about two different things. Peace for Israel is security and the right to exist and to grow. Peace for the Palestinians is really [about] development, survival…
“Weapons really don’t feed anybody — and the problem for Palestinians is just the basic right to survive as a people, almost the same as Israel, except that Israel denies a kind of political acceptance,” Young adds, referencing a 1979 resolution he vetoed as United Nations ambassador, which led him to quit the post… (more)
