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What Role Does Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Play In Mending U.S. Ties With Muslim World?

By Abubakar Siddique
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Posted on Wednesday June 3, 2009

June 3, 2009
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

While while the world waits for President Obama to outline his course towards a lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis, scholars discuss the role this conflict plays in both the Muslim and Arab worlds.

“It’s difficult to speak of a Muslim world, just as it’s difficult to speak of a Christian world. There certainly is a common language [in parts of the Muslim world] and a common faith, but very distinct issues that affect each part of the world populated by the 1 billion Muslims, so I think that it’s difficult to single out one issue that, for example, would be of the highest importance to Arabs and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and Indonesians etc,” Zogby said.

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