{"id":138,"date":"2009-03-04T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:16:49","slug":"build-on-bushs-middle-east-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/04\/build-on-bushs-middle-east-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Build on Bush&#8217;s Middle East Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism Professor <a title=\"Robert Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Zelnick<\/a>, former ABC News correspondent, a\u00a0Hoover Institute fellow, and author of &#8220;Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,&#8221; says Obama should build on Bush&#8217;s Middle East progress.\u00a0 With Secretary of State Clinton in the region, Zelnick\u00a0suggests in the <a title=\"Christian Science Monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0304\/p09s02-coop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Science Monitor\u00a0<\/a>how this can be done.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If (U.S. special envoys George Mitchell and Dennis Ross) can learn from Bush&#8217;s mistake and embrace the positive aspects that came from his administrration, they could save themselves many redundant steps on the road to peace.\u00a0 If full-dress negotiations do produce accord, the key would then be &#8216;shelving&#8217; agreement until the Palestinian Authority reestablishes sufficient control to implement it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism Professor Robert Zelnick, former ABC News correspondent, a\u00a0Hoover Institute fellow, and author of &#8220;Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,&#8221; says Obama should build on Bush&#8217;s Middle East progress.\u00a0 With Secretary of State Clinton in the region, Zelnick\u00a0suggests in the Christian Science Monitor\u00a0how this can be done. &#8220;If (U.S. special envoys George Mitchell and Dennis Ross) can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[518,202,517,519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}