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President Barack Obama speaks at Cairo University in Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009.
This article first appeared in print in July 2013, and a shortened version of it appeared in The Jewish Press online, as well as in many other publications. We asked Dr. Mordechai Kedar to share the full article with our readers because, on the eve of the Biden administration, we are still dumbfounded by policy decisions of the Obama administrationâof which Biden was a senior memberâthat altered the face of the Middle East in the most profound and harmful ways. Indeed, in our opinion, no matter what you may think of President Donald Trump’s domestic policies, in the Middle East he repaired much of the damage that was done by Obama, and even ushered in some measure of stability and, dare we say, tranquility. So we asked Dr. Kedar, whose views on the region we respect and even admire: What was Obama thinking? And he said, Why, I wrote an article about it a few years ago â The Editors.