Normalizing Relations: President Obama’s speeches signal a desire to treat Israel like any other country. Now events have converged to test his resolve.
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Scott McConnell
The American Conservative. May 1, 2010
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/may/01/00006/
“The result is that two streams of anti-settlement, pro-peace-process discourse have begun to merge and reinforce one another. The realist argument about Israel-which can be traced from President Truman’s secretary of state George Marshall through Kennedy and Johnson aide George Ball to Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer-now appears to have the patronage of American’s most respected military commander. The pretense that America’s and Israel’s interests in the Middle East coincide completely is being challenged at the highest level and may never recover.”
