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US Desperate for Post-Gaza Palestinian Partners

History offers a bleak assessment of previous ‘Third Force” efforts

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Jonathan Broder and Jeff Stein
Dec 22, 2023
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NOTHING GLIMMERED SO BRIGHTLY for Washington during the long twilight years of the Cold War than the prospect of finding “third force” democratic alternatives to Soviet-backed revolutionary movements in post-colonial Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In Israel today, the Biden administration is pursuing a similar Hail Mary strategy, urging the Netanyahu…

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