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October 14, 2015

The False Assumptions of American Policy in the Middle East

Solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict won’t bring regional peace.

The current mess in the Middle East, notes Peter Berkowitz, stems in part from the persistent failure of the U.S. government to understand the region—a failure chronicled historically in Dennis Ross’s new book, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama. Ross identifies three false assumptions that have led American policy astray since the Jewish state’s creation, as Berkowitz writes:

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October 14, 2015

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    Solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict won’t bring regional peace.

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