How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East
The three books offer sharp, at times unyielding critiques of the last two presidents. Yet none of the authors was a passive spectator during their terms in office. Miller, Kurtzer, and Indyk all had prominent parts in shaping or executing US policy. Kurtzer, who served as ambassador in Cairo and Tel Aviv between 1997 and 2005, held positions from which it was difficult to shape critical policy decisions and, in fairness, he constantly raised questions ... Full Story »
Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
G W Bush was as astoundingly incompetent president in almost all matters pertaining to the Middle East, and particularly those dealing with Israel. Bush has been in effect a Zionist stooge, more interested in preventing a peace deal that with pushing one through. I give much credit to Elliott Abrams for this disastrous state of affairs. Abrams wanted to use US power to "protect" Israel and to enable it to keep permanently much of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Abrams is the son-in-law of the neocons' propaganda minister, Norman Podhoretz.