The best assessment I have read about Obama's visionary but pragmatic Middle East foreign policy

A famous foreign policy talks about the real reasons why the Israelis and Arabs can't find peace. Read it here.

Obama's pragmatism drives our Middle East strategy

Obama's critics and Republican opponents are naturally all too delighted to confuse his internationalist pragmatism with an absence of principles, when in reality these -- pragmatism and principles -- are no antithesis. It would be a happy world indeed if the constant application of idealism always achieved the principled objectives pursued, yet history indicates its near abject failure in nearly every instance ... whereas our hyperpragmatic presidents, from Washington to Lincoln to FDR, achieved nearly all of their principled goals.

--PM Carpenter

To understand what is happening in the Middle East, watch these video interviews with Arab young people

Another brilliant piece of video reporting by the NYTimes. Watch it here.