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December 21, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1011

Forget the Domino Theories

[Washington Post/Washington Institute for Near East Policy] Robert Satloff - In boldly suggesting that "all key issues in the Middle East are inextricably linked," the authors of the Iraq Study Group report seem stunningly indifferent to the past 25 years of Middle East politics. After a generation of theorizing about Middle East dominoes, the evidence is piling up: The linkages simply don't exist. There is no evidence to support the proposition that Israeli-Palestinian violence has substantial regional repercussions. The road to Baghdad does not pass through Tehran, Damascus, Jerusalem, or Gaza. The writer is executive director of the Washington Institute.

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