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The World Next Week: The Palestinians Press for Statehood

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York September 21, 2011. Both leaders are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. President Barack Obama meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York on September 21, 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I sat down to discuss the Palestinian bid for UN statehood recognition; Turkey’s efforts to assert itself in the Middle East, and the upcoming UN Security Council debate on Afghanistan.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110922_TWN…]

The highlights:

The Washington Post evaluates public opinion data on the question of Palestinian statehood, and Haaretz presents a contrarian Israeli viewpoint on the U.S. role in blocking Palestinian ambitions. Reuters has the details on President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s meeting on Tuesday in New York, and the Economist looks into the increasingly turbulent relationship between American allies including Turkey in the Middle East. The New York Times evaluates the damage done to the Afghan peace process by the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani; and the New Yorker concurs with the New York Times’ grave assessment.