A lot of ink has been spilled over the Israeli-Turkish scandal in the wake of the Israeli raid on the flotilla. One thing keeps getting repeated: "Nothing will be the same any more". That was repeated by the Turkish PM Erdogan himself, as well. I think his words summarise the situation in the Middle East very properly. And things are of course much
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Well, he's been doing just that. In the year after President Obama sought out some conciliation with his speech in Cairo: Israel did not freeze all settlements, Palestinians did not return to direct negotiations, and Arab states did not provide confidence- building measures to the Israelis.
Aaron Miller's recent paper about the "False Religion of Mideast Peace" demonstrates precisely why that happened.
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