I haven’t been able to fully process it, but sounds like it was good one. The specifics in Egypt weren’t mentioned but in addition to inviting the Muslim Brotherhood there are other indicators that the U.S. is taking a position of being agnostic about who wins elections so long as they eschew violence and then once in power stay democratic. I’m going in large part off the Marc Lynch analysis which is worth reading in its entirety.
Had a busy day or I’d say more. One other point of note, Obama does really seem to be going all out on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think his actions already calling for a total settlement halt has earned some valuable credibility on this issue. David Ignatius did have a good op-ed on the matter saying what steps can be done to follow-up. One key point, this will be very hard, but I also fear we’re approaching the end of viability for the two state solution. I’m not sure I’d wouldn’t want to put most of my chips on getting demonstrable results, but I could see the argument that we have to try rather than just making critical statements and distancing ourselves from the Netanyahu government.
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