“My impression is that the Obama administration still has not formulated its total policy or strategy on Arab-Israeli peace-making, because the political calculus for this — involving domestic as well as foreign policy — is too complex and costly for a young administration that has more important battles to fight.”

Rami Khouri, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “Bad Month for Middle East Peace,” which Agence Global released on November 4, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2182

Tags: Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East, Middle East peace process

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