Washington Watch Articles From 2005
UNDERSTANDING HISTORY AND THE PATH TO PEACE MAKING
I had been speaking of the role that “losing control of their history” had played in defining the Palestinian psyche during the last century, when a somewhat aggravated Israeli in the audience challenged my assessment.
PREPARING FOR ABBAS’S VISIT
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (“Abu Mazen”) is liked, but is not known, here in the US. This situation poses some challenges and presents some opportunities which the Palestinian leader ought to address as he prepares for his upcoming American visit.
AN EFFORT TO REBUILD US-ARAB RELATIONS
While the Bush Administration and much of the US media paint a rosy picture of US success in producing “Freedom on the March,” from Afghanistan to Egypt, a more thoughtful assessment of the real problems facing the US-Arab relationship came last week from a distinguished group of former US government officials.