Article in The Nation on Hamas and Hizbullah


Posted by Helena Cobban
November 3, 2007 5:38 PM EST | Link
Filed in Palestine 2007 , Writing and publishing

I see that The Nation has put up on its website a teaser for a piece I wrote for them about a month ago, which is on the need for Hamas and Hizbullah to be included in Arab-Israeli peacemaking if those two respective tracks of it are to be successful.

The piece starts with a little vignette designed to show the degree to which the vast majority of members of the US "political class"-- i.e., legislators and media bigwigs-- have for many years now considered themselves bound to follow Israel's lead, rather than their own reading of the US people's interests, in matters of Israeli-Arab diplomacy.

Of course, this is also a big part of what Walt and Mearsheimer have been writing about.

    Update Sunday a.m.: Thanks to alert co-poster Scott for having figured out you can read the whole text here.
Sometime I might blog the slightly amusing story of how this piece got edited and then de-edited...



Comments
Comment from... Scott, at November 3, 2007 07:04 PM:

Here's your full text Helena via AgenceGlobal: :-}

http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?Id=1399

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