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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Morton K. Brussel <brussel@illinois.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, April 23, 2010 12:33:11 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] "honest broker"<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Green wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/04/barack-obama-is-speaking-the-language-of-israel-firster-dennis-ross.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://mondoweiss.net/2010/04/barack-obama-is-speaking-the-language-of-israel-firster-dennis-ross.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">William Quandt is a reliable source and astute observor in this piece; Dennis Ross plays the role of Aaron David Miller:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">The notion that the United States can’t want peace more than the Israelis and Palestinians want it is, as Quandt points out, a relic of the Clinton and second Bush administration’s approach to Israel/Palestine, and not Baker’s view. It’s also a view that Dennis Ross<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=26422&lan=en&sid=0&sp=0" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#2361a1>has pushed hard</FONT></A>, with tragic consequences for the Palestinians. The question we should be asking is why Ross has such a prominent role in Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Middle East, a role that is very detrimental. Ross, as Laura Rozen at<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>Politico</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0310/Fierce_debate_on_Israel_underway_inside_Obama_administration.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#2361a1>reported</FONT></A><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>in late March, is still very much involved in crafting the administration’s approach to Israel, and is reportedly “more sensitive to Netanyahu’s coalition politics than to U.S. interests.”</DIV>
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