From Iraq Study Group Wrong to Link Iraq to Israel: If Israelis and Palestinians reached peace tomorrow, it would be ludicrous to expect a therapeutic spillover effect in Iraq. The fighting in Iraq is caused by a brutal struggle for power, a proxy war fueled by Iran’s growing ambitions in the region and al-Qaeda’s ruthless campaign to establish a base of operations to export its totalitarian Islamic revolution. Iraq’s Sunni insurgents and Shia militias, provoked by insurgent atrocities, would continue their bloody handiwork regardless of events between Israelis and Palestinians. James Baker, the ISG co-chairman, maintains that Syria can be
Read More +From The Big Lie About the Middle East: Arab Nations Don’t Care about the Palestinians: No sensible person is against peacemaking in the Holy Land. But in lumping the Iraq mess in with the Palestinian problem – and suggesting the first could not be fixed unless the second was too – the Baker-Hamilton commission lent credibility to a corrosive myth: that the fundamental problem in the Arab world is the plight of the Palestinians. It is a falsehood perpetuated not just by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, who came late to the slogan after their actual
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