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...months as Bush's Middle East envoy, Jones concluded that brokering a deal between Israel and the Palestinians inside of 12 months was, in his words, a "grandiose hope." So Jones turned his attention to the more modest goal of making peace in one city in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank...
Though not above spin, Jones is willing to admit things that are not to his advantage and take responsibility for his errors. At a West Wing meeting in late 2002, Bush asked each of the service chiefs whether he agreed with Donald Rumsfeld's plan for a lightly armed invasion of Iraq, and Jones said he did. When I asked him recently if, in retrospect, he should have spoken out against the plan, he said, "In hindsight, that's probably fair...
Jones is equally blunt about how bad things have become in Gaza. After advocating for more realistic goals in the Middle East last year, Jones started a pilot project in the West Bank town of Jenin to organize training for Palestinian police and funding for development projects. Now he fears that his modest successes there may be undermined if the violence in Gaza continues. "I think they still believe" in peace, Jones says, but "I haven't asked that question since Gaza." It will be up to him and Obama to find the answers...
...comprehensive resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, summoning all leaders of goodwill to the task--perhaps suggesting they convene in Washington to declare their common intent. He will need to announce a series of mechanisms for achieving it, including: resumption of Israeli-Palestinian final-status negotiations, rebuilding of the West Bank and Gaza economies and PA security capabilities, initiation of U.S.-sponsored direct negotiations between Israel and Syria, and operationalizing the Arab League peace initiative. And he should put this into the even larger context of his efforts to end the war in Iraq, engage Iran and construct...
...Ankara's changed orientation is not without its detractors. Secularist Turks, worried about what they see as Erdogan's Islamicizing agenda, accuse the government of pulling away from the West and abandoning its E.U. membership drive, pointing to controversial decisions like Ankara's hosting of Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in 2006 as proof...