links for 2011-09-19

• Digging in, the essence of Netanyahu's foreign policy – Haaretz
  The years-long diplomatic effort to integrate Israel as an accepted neighbor in the Middle East collapsed this week, with the expulsion of the Israeli ambassadors from Ankara and Cairo, and the rushed evacuation of the embassy staff from Amman. This is the lowest point in Israeli foreign policy since the groundbreaking visit to Jerusalem by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1977. The region is spewing out the Jewish state, which is increasingly shutting itself off behind fortified walls, under a leadership that refuses any change, movement or reform and is dealing with debacle after debacle.
  (tags: israel netanyahu neoconservatism palestine foreign_policy extremism leadership politics middle_east revolution negotiation compromise)

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