Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 22

30-May-2011

Political Comment (30 May 2011)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Obama a public lecture in the Oval Office about what he described as regional realities and addressed a joint session of Congress which enthusiastically embraced his hard-line agenda, leaving Mr Obama's second attempt to resuscitate the peace process pretty much dead in the water. Mission accomplished. In response, the US President restated his case...