November 25th, 2008 by Tariq

Last week Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote an op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post on the prospect of Arab-Israeli peace as a priority for the new administration.

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Zalman Shoval, responds in the Washington Times, “Establishing peace, or at least some sort of modus vivendi between Israel and the Palestinians, should indeed be an important aim - for itself and for the peoples involved - but not as an implement, paid for by Israel, in order to try to advance other agendas, important as they may be.”

While M.J. Rosenberg of TPMCafe says, “I can hardly think of anyone I’d rather have our new President talking to about foreign policy than Brent Scowcroft…Take everything you hate about the neocons and think “exact opposite” and you have Scowcroft. He was against the Iraq war. Opposes confrontation with Iran. And wants to use every resource at our command to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and implement the two-state solution NOW.”

Rosenberg also shares some hopeful thoughts from an Israeli journalist, Lilly Rivlin, on the potential dynamic between Tzipi Livni and Hillary Clinton, “She then said that she believed that with Clinton as Secretary of State and Tzipi Livni (let’s hope) as Israeli Prime Minister, a terrific dynamic could be created. And she said it was one that women are better at creating than men.”

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