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Month: December 2008

  • ACT NOW ON SYRIA, IRAN, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

    A new report from the Saban Center emphasizes the critical opportunities and dangers right now in the Middle East. It recommends that President Obama acts now to open a channel without preconditions to Iran, as well as to Syria, engaging the Palestinian/Israeli peace track at the same time. It is vital that one track not be done without the other in order for there to be no spoilers. The prospects for peace should these tracks proceed is high, the prospects for war should they fail or languish is high in my opinion. Now is the time to send the signals. This is a broader reach than Miller’s position referred to below and emanates out of a broad realist consensus. I am persuaded that we have at this moment in history an interesting confluence at work of realist positions concerning the national interest and the work of conflict resolution and peacebuilding.…

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