October 21, 2010

Mideast Talks Will Almost Certainly Fail

Roger Cohen, New York Times

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Among the minor fiascoes of the Obama administration's foreign policy, the rapid White House-to-wipe-out course of Middle Eastern diplomacy in recent weeks rates high.

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TAGGED: Middle East, West Bank, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel

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