Sunday, December 28, 2008

Robert Fisk’s World: How Can Anyone Believe There Is 'Progress' In The Middle East? -- A Commentary

From The Independent:

A test of Obama’s gumption will come scarcely three months after his inauguration.

If reporting is, as I suspect, a record of mankind's folly, then the end of 2008 is proving my point.

Let's kick off with the man who is not going to change the Middle East, Barack Obama, who last week, with infinite predictability, became Time's "person of the year". But buried in a long and immensely tedious interview inside the magazine, Obama devotes just one sentence to the Arab-Israeli conflict: "And seeing if we can build on some of the progress, at least in conversation, that's been made around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be a priority."

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