President Obama has promised a "new start" with the world's Muslims, but Secretary of State Clinton is finding again that's easier said than done. In Morocco, she told Arab leaders the US will deliver on President Obama's promise of a "new start" with the Muslim world, but first backed away from earlier statements denounced by some of those same leaders as threatening to set back the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by ten years. In the meantime, Congress is about to formally agree with Israel and denounce the UN's "Goldstone Report" about war crimes before and during the invasion of Gaza. We update US diplomacy in the Middle East and the prospects for getting peace talks started again.
Settlements, War Crimes and Middle East Peace
Credits
Guests:
- Howard Schneider - Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Washington Post
- Lawrence Wright - author, screenwriter, staff writer New Yorker - @lawrence_wright
- Nadia Hijab - Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies
- Bret Stephens - Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal