Obama Peace Tips -- Throw Pens, Grit Teeth, Mind Sabbath: Books
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Henry Kissinger, fed up with Israeli haggling, flung a pen at a map of the Sinai Desert. Jimmy Carter clenched his teeth. And Gerald Ford sang "Happy Birthday."
As President Barack Obama labors to keep Mideast peace talks on track, he can take heart in those vignettes of negotiations past, as told in Yehuda Avner’s timely book, "The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership." This vivid memoir shows that friction has always characterized U.S.-Israeli relations.