Excerpt From Blog Post:RubinReports
Barry Rubin
You have to have a sense of humor to study the Middle East. What happens every day—often presented and analyzed in the greatest detail and actually taken seriously—has its farcical quality out front. As William Shakespeare put it in Macbeth, "It is a tale/Told by an idiot,/ full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing." And remember: It doesn’t matter what’s said, the games played, or public relations’ victories scored, but only the realities on the ground. In this sense, the Arab and Palestinian side has won hundreds of “victories” without actually gaining anything in the real world. That’s why things are the way they are.
While in Cairo, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was asked what the U.S. government thought about the shape of a future Palestinian state.
Here’s her answer:
“I can repeat to you what President Obama said in his speech...
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