7 Steps to Mideast Peace - Rami Khouri January 29, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/30/Assessing_the_Bush_Era_Balance_Sheet

Confident there is still Arab and Islamic support for American values, Rami Khouri suggests seven policies the US should employ to revive Middle East peacemaking and end the Israeli-Arab conflict.

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Public policy scholar Rami Khouri debates former Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns about the effectiveness of U.S. military presence in the Middle East.

While Burns argues that the Bush administration has made great strides towards peace in the region, Khouri maintains that the War on Terror has only served to destabilize the region.

Rami George Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and author.