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Friday, September 19, 2014

Israel & the US: The Delusions of Our Diplomacy

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/09/israel-us-delusions-our-diplomacy/

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Israel & the US: The Delusions of Our Diplomacy

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In the early days of the Gaza war that took the lives of some 2,100 Palestinians and seventy-two Israelis, a number of officials in Washington, Ramallah, and Jerusalem began to speak of renewing Israeli–Palestinian negotiations mediated by the United States. As the fighting dragged on, this talk intensified, again showing that the “peace process” gains greatest urgency from the threat of Israeli–Palestinian violence.

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