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US public diplomacy: an idiotic fetish

Source: The Daily Star

Jerusalem : Israel | 3 months ago

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If you wait long enough, sensible things always happen in America, often among the armed forces’ senior command. One example was Commander of US Central Command General David Petraeus’ recent affirmation that resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict fairly is “very central”...

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