[SJackson]

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Among the points.

 

1. The Arab-Israeli conflict is inextricably linked to Iraq.

Really? I can't think of a single issue in the region it is less linked to. Iraq is about an internal struggle for power.

 

2. The most important thing right now is for everyone to negotiate since it was the breakdown in talks that led to violence.

Wrong again. It was the refusal to make an agreement that led to the breakdown in talks, and to violence. The extremists don't want serious talks because they want victory, not compromise

3. A negotiated peace would strengthen Mahmoud Abbas.

Do these people pay any attention to the Middle East? To obtain peace, Abbas would have to make concessions...Abbas would need to suppress Hamas.   Making the needed concessions would destroy him.

He is incapable of doing that. To get a peace treaty, Abbas would need to suppress Hamas, which he can neither do nor even try to do. Is that so hard to understand?

4. It is good to have a Palestinian national unity government.

Get it? Have Hamas in power, have Fatah and Hamas competing to show which can be the more militant and successful in terrorism, and on top of that have successful peace talks.

5. The key to moderating Syrian policy in Lebanon is getting Syria the Golan Heights.

If Syria had wanted the Golan Heights, it could have had them long ago. Syria wants Lebanon, which is far more valuable than the Golan.

 

[corlorde]

ANY COLLEGE undergraduate who has taken a couple of courses on the Middle East should understand the points above. (They probably don't because of the way the region is taught in universities, but you get my point.)

Yup, I absolutely get the author's point. Intentional disconnect in academia...and they make no effort to hide their biases, when teaching.

[beyond the sea]

Baker's stale ideas

Just another stale cookie from this Baker.

[PGalt]

The only way this kind of thinking is going to damage the radical forces is if they fall down and hurt themselves from laughing so hard.

BUMP

[darkwing104]

After reading through this dribble. It looks like they wrote it on a napkin during a happy hour BS session at a high end Bar in D.C....Being D.C. it was more likely crack.

[Nephi]

Let's see, globalists created the mess in Iraq in the first place so let's turn to a committe of globalists to fix it?

[Quix]

I labeled Baker a dyed-in-the-wool globalist traitor a very long time ago . . . as well as the President he served.

I've long wondered if the puppet masters ordered either one of them to terminate . . .

would they comply, or try to. I hope not. But often, I'm not so sure that there's any safety in such a hope. Prayer remains in order.