POMED Notes: The Bush Administration and Middle East Peacemaking: The Final Six Months
June 30th, 2008 by Adam
On Monday the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars held a panel discussion regarding the future of Middle East peacemaking in the last six months of President Bush’s administration. Speakers included, Rami Khouri, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and Editor-at-large of the Daily Star, David Makovsky, Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former U.S. Middle East Negotiator.
For POMED’s complete notes on the discussion, click here.
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July 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
The failures of the peace process to address underlying and complex economic and resource issues suggest to me that the process will fail, no matter what the current administration does to push its agenda. The failure to bring these complex issues, such as trade, customs, and, perhaps most significant among them, water into public debate and put them forward as principle issues merely feeds the ideologues who foment the conflict with religious rhetoric and political diatribes. See http://www.helium.com/items/1086692-israel-palestine-west-bank-middle-east-peace for a brief rudimentary introduction to the question of deeper issues, in particular the aforementioned water.