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The U.S. Must Avoid Two Traps in the Middle East—and Neither Is about Gaza
The dangers of negotiation-mania over Palestinian statehood and Iranian nuclear weapons.
Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the author, most recently, of Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford).
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