Debunking the "mother of all myths" aka the "the idea that if only the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would melt away."
Lots of good stuff in here...one point they discuss is the Middle East has nine conflict clusters -
“these many conflicts are symptoms of the same malaise: the absence of a Middle Eastern order, to replace the old Islamic and European empires. But they are independent symptoms; one conflict does not cause another, and its ‘resolution’ cannot resolve another.”
If Obama thinks solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (which won't happen, by the way) will stop Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, or think it has anything to do with Iraq, or the spread of radical Islam, or corruption in governments around the region, or the misogyny, he is incredibly naive.
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