Experts in the West and ordinary people in Arab lands have understood for many years that the United States does not have an independent policy toward the Middle East.

President Jimmy Carter, a man of good will, tried to use American influence to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the source of dangerous instability in the Middle East. Israel was able to block Carter's attempt, however, while blaming Yasser Arafat. Carter's plan would have given rise to a Palestinian state. Israe ...

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