We have written about Barack Obama's Middle East adviser Daniel Kurtzer before. We had qualms regarding his perspective on the Middle East process, given his record and after having read a book he wrote along with Scott Lasensky, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace.Kenneth Levin over at Frontpage shares our concern. He read Kurtzer's book-which can be seen as a blueprint that may guide Barack Obama should he become President:The key paragraph in Levin's article:Among the explicitly stated assumptions on which they base their argument is the belief that U.S. diplomacy must focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict because it stands in the way of America building alliances with Middle East nations around other issues. Additional unsupported claims are that there is currently a broader regional acceptance of Israel, making resolution of the conflict more achievable; that the majority of Palestinians endorse a two-state solution; that addressing the conflict will boost Arab moderates vis-a-vis...(Read Full Post)