Editor: Rob Malley

Robert Malley is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project, and editor of the US/MEPolicy series. He is also the Director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa Program.

Individual Briefs

October 9, 2007
TICKING CLOCKS AND ‘ACCIDENTAL’ WAR
September 20, 2007
IRAQ: ASSESSING THE SURGE
July 20, 2007
President Bush’s Palestine Speech: A Critique and Optimistic Antidote
June 20, 2007
Towards a new 242
May 20, 2007
Thoughts on Engaging Iran
April 20, 2007
Iraq’s Sectarian War
March 20, 2007
Lebanon: What should U.S. policy be?
February 20, 2007
Engaging Syria?
January 1, 2007
New Plans on the Israeli – Palestinian Front

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General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

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OBAMA MUST BROKER A NEW MIDEAST PEACE

As a new Middle East has begun to be shaped by citizens in individual countries, one issue appears conspicuously unaffected, at least on the surface: the Arab-Israeli dispute over Palestine.The US has more direct interests at stake in ensuring a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine than it does in the outcome in most other countries in the region, writes General Brent Scowcroft. Remaining silent on deadlocked negotiations over a two state solution, while encouraging greater democratisation in other countries, suggests a double standard that damages America’s image in the Middle East and the broader Muslim world.

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