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Editor's note.

Publication: Middle East Policy
Publication Date: 22-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Editor's note.(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
This is issue number 100 of Middle East Policy, a time to reflect for a moment on some of the events covered in these pages over the last 27 years (I joined the staff in April 1983, when we were proofreading number 4, and became the editor the next year). On its inaugural cover in June 1982 appeared a headline that would, sadly, be appropriate today: "The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East." The historic accomplishment of the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, brokered in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter and a top-flight team headed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was still fresh, although Carter had left office in 1981 under the cloud of the Iranian hostage crisis (see the review of Carter's We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, page 166).

The running sore of Palestine--left out at Camp David--is still a basic U.S. foreign-policy and humanitarian concern (see Myers on Israeli policy in Gaza, page 116). Entwined with it are the vexed U.S. relationship with the Islamic Republic of...

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