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...would present an opportunity disguised as a challenge: for it to be most effective, it should include Israel. That would require an Israeli peace with the Palestinians, which would permit Israel to escape from having to occupy the West Bank indefinitely. The opportunity is that Israel could (as the Saudi plan of 2002 suggested) then establish normal relations with the moderate Arab states, and the new military alliance could provide the security guarantees that could make any Israeli-Palestinian settlement work...
There is, however, one major philosophical objection to this approach. The so-called moderate Arab states, particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are far from paragons of democracy...
...present is more complicated, and there are some real trade-offs. An unsettling fact about the Middle East, as the elections in the Palestinian territories and Iran have demonstrated, is that democracy does not always go hand in hand with moderation in the short term. Elections in Egypt and Saudi Arabia would surely show the same...
Perhaps such an approach could even begin to minimize the trade-offs that now seem to vex us. Membership in MATO, especially if it drains some of the bile from the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, could make the leaders and citizens in places such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia feel more secure. And that may make them more open to greater democracy and reform...
...from the Iran sales had been placed in a CIA-managed Swiss bank account also used to fund the rebel forces in Afghanistan as well as Jonas Savimbi's troops fighting the Marxist government in Angola. Citing a "well-placed senior Administration official," the Post claimed the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had each placed $250 million in the account this year. Commingling the Iranian proceeds with these funds was described by the Post's source as a "dumb" mistake by an impatient CIA employee who did not wait for the creation of a separate account. The CIA issued an unusual...