by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
I had a fascinating email conversation over the weekend on the Middle East conflict, and it seems worthy of reproducing here. Not just because of the issues raised but because they encapsulate the difficulty of even agreeing on what the central questions are.

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Dave McGill
The president may have finally found the key to unlocking Republican support but it’s not yet clear that he’s going to grasp it. It’s as simple as increasing the scope of an existing war.

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by Dave McGill
Many Americans don’t know what to make of their new president. They’ve never seen one quite like him in their lifetimes.
He seems to have the unique idea that he represents all Americans – not just the liberals that he’s been so scathingly associated with. In the process, he’s been reaching out to conservatives, [...]

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by Dave McGill
From the U.K.’s Guardian to San Francisco’s Chronicle, and beyond, the media is attributing good and bad events to “the Obama effect.”
In the process, the election and performance of the Obama administration is being credited with influencing everything from the recent domestic terrorist attacks by the lunatic fringe of the right wing to [...]

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by Dave McGill
President Obama is seriously pressing for a complete halt to the construction of any additional Jewish settlements “on Palestinian territory” in the West Bank and for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem, two positions that the new Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has opposed.

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