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Chuck Hagel and linkage

Chuck Hagel says the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the “core conflict” in the Middle East? How does he know? Middle Eastern leaders told him so. But did they? Continue reading

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The NIC of time

The National Intelligence Council looks in the crystal ball at the year 2030. But its vision of Israel and the Middle East is occluded. Continue reading

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Obama embraces linkage

In my earlier post on the myth of linkage, I brought a number of exemplary quotes from figures such as Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski to illustrate my point. Now another quote can be added to the collection—this one from … Continue reading

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The myth of linkage

Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the … Continue reading

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