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?
Tag: linkage
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.
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 Barack Obama, fresh from his quick tutorial in the Middle East: I think King, King …
The myth of linkage
Martin Kramer presented a version of this post in the Director's Series at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies on October 24. First posted at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) on June 12. Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this …
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