(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - The Geneva agreement appears to be another step in America's flight from the Middle East. The American president is seen to be distancing himself from the region: getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan, with no tangible success; abandoning Mubarak, backing the Muslim Brothers and even turning his back on the new Egyptian regime battling radical Islam; zigzagging about Syria; and recently rumored to be conducting secret talks with Hizbullah and radical Islamic factions in Syria. Taken together, these steps point to a deliberate strategy. The writer is a former Israeli ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden.
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