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..... Dr. Kissinger made the comments as he spoke to participants in the Herzliya Conference via live feed. Discussing the option of a regional peace agreement, Dr. Kissinger expressed his doubts, saying, "I would welcome a regional peace process, theoretically it is a logical evolution. But I believe a step by step approach is better. We are not in a position to take a regional peace initiative, and it is not obvious what it can achieve. You'd assume a regional peace will include states that are no longer function as states – Syria, Iraq, Libya… If any agreement has to...

Earlier this month, Fatah founder, Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat wrote an op-ed for the New York Times. "[W]e seek only what the free world now enjoys and only what Israel insists on for itself: the right to control our own destiny and to take our place among free nations," he wrote. If I didn't know Arafat's past and actions, I would look at his op-ed and vision as a legitimate goal from an honorable man. But I do know his past and present actions and the rhetoric he spits out on a daily ...