a half-baked deal only to buy time for a peace process that appears to be floundering anyway. Daniel Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. During a 29-year career in the US. Foreign Service, h

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