The Huffington Post
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
David Harris Executive Director, AJC, and Senior Associate, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Posted: February 10, 2011 04:29 PM
- First it was the myth about linkage between Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
- Another myth was about settlement-building in eastern Jerusalem.
- Then came PaliLeaks, and the myth was blown out of the water.
They [the report’s authors] have spoken of three overarching explanatory factors for the region’s unsatisfactory condition: the knowledge deficit, the gender deficit and the freedom deficit.
Unless these three areas are addressed in a sustained manner, the Middle East, which ought to be one of the world’s most dynamic regions, is likely to continue suffering from instability, violence and fundamentalism, irrespective of what happens on the Israeli-Palestinian front.
