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tinians. While Israel continued with its settlement policy, the mediation efforts of the US administration were going nowhere. The bid to reconcile Fatah and Hamas had failed and tensions were high between Hamas and Cairo. Then, suddenly, Egypt closed a reconciliation agreement between the Palestinia
ntire diplomacy of freedom, were projects of folly—romantic, self deluding undertakings in the Arab world. To the extent that these men thought of the Greater Middle East, they entered it through the gateway of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The key to the American security dilemma in the region, they maintained,
tinians. While Israel continued with its settlement policy, the mediation efforts of the US administration were going nowhere. The bid to reconcile Fatah and Hamas had failed and tensions were high between Hamas and Cairo. Then, suddenly, Egypt closed a reconciliation agreement between the Palestinia
ntire diplomacy of freedom, were projects of folly—romantic, self deluding undertakings in the Arab world. To the extent that these men thought of the Greater Middle East, they entered it through the gateway of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The key to the American security dilemma in the region, they maintained,
tinians. While Israel continued with its settlement policy, the mediation efforts of the US administration were going nowhere. The bid to reconcile Fatah and Hamas had failed and tensions were high between Hamas and Cairo. Then, suddenly, Egypt closed a reconciliation agreement between the Palestinia
ntire diplomacy of freedom, were projects of folly—romantic, self deluding undertakings in the Arab world. To the extent that these men thought of the Greater Middle East, they entered it through the gateway of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The key to the American security dilemma in the region, they maintained,
tinians. While Israel continued with its settlement policy, the mediation efforts of the US administration were going nowhere. The bid to reconcile Fatah and Hamas had failed and tensions were high between Hamas and Cairo. Then, suddenly, Egypt closed a reconciliation agreement between the Palestinia
ntire diplomacy of freedom, were projects of folly—romantic, self deluding undertakings in the Arab world. To the extent that these men thought of the Greater Middle East, they entered it through the gateway of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The key to the American security dilemma in the region, they maintained,
punishing Gaza and isolating its Hamas government, Egypt is reported to be pushing for a reconciliation of the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. If successful, this could help defuse the current dangerous escalation of violence between Israel on the one side and Hamas and still more extreme G
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030034 →f the Middle East peace process. It has allowed the U.S.-Turkey relationship to reach historic lows, just as Turkey is becoming a formidable actor in the Greater Middle East. By concentrating on health care for its first two years, the administration, and the large majorities in Congress, missed a crucial opportunity to p
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030037 →Entities connected to both Fatah and the Greater Middle East

Lebanon
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Tehran
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Damascus
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Tunisia
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Bill Clinton
PERSONSinai
LOCATION
Yemen
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Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Morocco
LOCATION
Baghdad
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Muslim Brotherhood
ORGANIZATION
Sudan
LOCATION
Riyadh
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