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February 7, 2012

The Biggest News from the Mideast Today

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

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The most important news out of the Middle East is not the Hamas-PA Agreement 4.0 (or 5.0 or 6.0, who can remember?). For various reasons, it doesn't seem likely to work (you can read Robert Danin here on some of the difficulties). Nor is it the "very productive meeting" Russia's foreign minister held in Damascus with the blood-soakwd Assad regime.

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TAGGED: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, oil prices

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