Obama's Middle East Team
Roger Cohen, The New York Times | January 13, 2009
Despite the war in Gaza signaling the need for an urgent change in US policy in the Middle East, Obama’s Middle East team made up of "liberal, Jewish (or half-Jewish) males’’ does not meet the cultural diversity needed for new thinking to emerge. ++ Change cannot wait any longer as rage against Israel is translated to rage against the US and stirs up the fury of the Arab world. ++ While the US does not have to forsake Israel, diversifying the team to include Arab-American regional experts will balance an exclusively pro-Israel policy.
