PrintMarch 25, 2010
Petraeus of Arabia
[See important update below - editor]If supporters of Israel have been roiled lately by the tense exchanges between Washington and Jerusalem, they are soon in for another shock. On March 13, a report on the Foreign Policy Magazine website revealed that in mid-January, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East) arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Gen. David Petraeus had sent them to amplify his growing concerns at the lack of progress in bringing the Arab-Israeli conflict to an end. The briefing reflected a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S.is incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM's mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, and that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the...(Read Full Article)
