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Leapfrogging Barriers to a Two-State Deal

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, David Makovsky, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Grace Machel, Middle East, Martin Indyk, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Palestine, Kofi Annan, Martti Ahtisaari, Hamas, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, J Street, Jill Biden, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Lady GaGa, Desmond Tutu, Israel Palestine Security, Israel Palestine Border, Brookings Institute, Israel Palestine Peace, Middle East Peace Process, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There is a consensus brewing among progressives, big-name foreign policy hands and some neoconservatives that a borders/security strategy is a way to leapfrog over current impediments to progress in Israel and Palestine.

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Holbrooke Not a Bulldozer and Had Six Relationships With Karzai

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Bureaucratic Infighting, Karl Eikenberry, US Foreign Policy, Defense Policy, Bob Gates, George W. Bush, David Petraeus, Martin Indyk, Richard Holbrooke, Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Crop Eradication, Bulldozer, Jim Jones, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I think that the many tributes to Richard Holbrooke are important and wonderful, but I want folks to see beyond caricatures of a very complex and important global player.

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Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Centcom, Lebanon, Lobbyists, Hezbollah, Washington DC, Democracy, Bashar Assad, Zogby International, Ray Lahood, Arab Americans, Richard Durbin, James Zogby, Chatham House, Egypt, Arab, Martin Indyk, Freedom, Doha, Israel, Al Jazeera, Brookings Institution, Syria, Foreign Policy, Think Tanks, World News
Hussain Abdul-Hussain

But when it comes to foreign policy, Obama deserves a big bold F. Stories of Washington's self-proclaimed experts and think tanks for hire might give us some clues.

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Palestine and Washington's Alchemy

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Avigdor Lieberman, Middle East Peace Process, Martin Indyk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Middle East Policy, Martin-Indyk-Netanyahu, Middle East Peace, World News
Michael Brenner

The Obama administration is turning its alchemic powers toward Palestine. It is aiming to fashion a 'success' out of the shambles created by its lame failure to stand up to the Israeli government of Bibi Netanyahu.

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Reality Check: Who Are the Factual Journalists?

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Jack Kennedy, Clinton Administration, John Bolton, United Nations, Jose Maria Aznar, Pmoi, US Congress, State Department, Eu, Court of APPEAL, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Federal Appeals Court, Iran, Bob Woodward, Mek, Martin Indyk, Brad Sherman, Richard Burton, Camp Ashraf, Terrorism, Poac, Mohammad Khatami, Fto, World News
Ali Safavi

In "Who are the Terrorists," Kenneth Timmerman rehashes absurd tabloid allegations against the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq.

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Cordesman Game Show: So You Think You Can Win This War?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Anthony Cordesman, Andrew Bacevich, Bruce Jentleson, Karl Eikenberry, Ann Coulter, Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, John Nagl, David Petraeus, Fran Townsend, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Csis, Charles Kupchan, Afghanistan War, Jeffrey Goldberg, Robert Pape, Jon Stewart, Gracian Del Castillo, Martin Indyk, Paul Pillar, David Frum, G. John Ikenberry, Christopher Preble, Brian Katulis, Walter Russell Mead, James Glassman, Politics News
Steve Clemons

You really think you can dance WIN THIS WAR?? -- Anthony H. Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy (not really; just hypothetically...

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Brookings Loses Bid on Orszag but Takes Kagan From Carnegie

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Think Tank All Stars, Council on Foreign Relations, Connie Bruck, Peter Orszag, Robert Kagan, New Yorker, Paul Wolfowitz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Elliott Abrams, Francis Fukuyama, Haim Saban, Martin Indyk, Brookings, David Frum, Ken Pollack, LeBron James, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Word has just reached us that Robert Kagan -- one of the top tier serious intellectuals among neoconservatives, and currently Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- is moving his franchise over to Brookings.

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Dateline Doha: Engaging The Islamic World

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Doha, Oic, Palestine, Yemen, US-Islamic World Forum, Muslim World, Aghanistan, Secretary Clinton, Islamic Republic of Iran, Saban-Center-for-Middle-East-Policy, Martin Indyk, Israel, Taliban, Brookings Institution, Obama Cairo Speech, Qatar, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Since President Obama was elected, the U.S.-Islamic Forum has striven to sustain the momentum borne from Obama's landmark address in Cairo and the new era ushered in by his election.

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Specter of Forced Repatriation

Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pmoi, Camp Ashraf, Mek, Geneva Conventions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojahedin-E-Khalq, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Indyk, Dell Dailey, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, State Department, Mohammed Khatami, World News
Allan Gerson

The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.

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Martin Indyk: Clinton Felt Misled By Former Israeli President Ehud Barak

TPMCafe | M.J. Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Martin Indyk Netanyahu, Israel, Indyk, Martin Indyk, Martin Indyk Clinton, World News

Check out this blockbuster interview with former ambassador (twice) to Israel, Martin Indyk. It appears in Yediot Achronoth today in Hebrew and is ver...

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Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Iran, Jeffrey Feltman, Obama Syria, Iran, United States, Syria Track, Bashar Al-Assad, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Bret Stephens, Daniel Schapiro, John Kerry, Golan Heights, Martin Indyk, Israel Syria, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Syria, Stuart Whatley, World News
Stuart Whatley

Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.

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