'New Middle East' requires effort on all sides

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: July 31, 2003| Author: Thomas L. Friedman | Copyright information

Back in the mid-1990s there was a lot of talk about "a new Middle East" that seemed to be aborning. It turned out to be, shall we say, "premature" -- as the newest new Middle East came crashing down with the collapse of Oslo, the breakdown in Arab-Israeli relations, 9/11 and the massive passive support for Osama bin Laden. With hindsight, it's now easy to see that there could be no "new Middle East" without a new kind of Middle East politics. It was like trying to build a new house on swampla...

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